Indian runner knows about gender-test backlash

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Indian runner knows about gender-test backlash

http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/indian-runner-knows-about-gender-test.html
9/24/09

PUDUKKOTTAI, India — Considering suicide after being stripped of her medal and shunned by the people around her, Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan knows a bit about what Caster Semenya is going through.

Soundarajan failed a gender test after finishing second in the women's 800-meter race at the 2006 Asian Games and was forced to return her silver medal. Semenya, the 800 world champion from South Africa who has been going through the same type of test to prove she is eligible to compete as a woman, is facing the same future.