Film 'Renee' Explores Controversial Life of Transsexual Tennis Star

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Film 'Renee' Explores Controversial Life of Transsexual Tennis Star

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/renee-richards-film_n_854578.html
4/27/11
Laura Gottesdiener

In 1967, Renée Richards walked onto the court of the La Jolla tennis championship as an unknown housewife from Southern California. Her 6-foot-2-inch frame was clad in a super-short white tennis skirt, her size-12 feet stuffed into feminine white sneakers. For Richards, who was actually a highly successful ophthalmologist and formerly a man named John Raskin, the unknown-housewife ruse fell apart as quickly as her opponents' game. Richards swept the tournament, and woke up the next morning as the most famous transsexual athlete in history.