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Title: Cross-Court Winner Renée Richards (1934– ), from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Ha
Post by: Shana A on October 28, 2012, 08:18:36 AM
Post by: Shana A on October 28, 2012, 08:18:36 AM
Cross-Court Winner
Renée Richards (1934– ), from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.
By Emily Bazelon|Posted Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at 8:00 AM ET
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/10/jewish_jocks_and_ren_e_richards_the_life_of_the_transsexual_tennis_legend.single.html (http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/10/jewish_jocks_and_ren_e_richards_the_life_of_the_transsexual_tennis_legend.single.html)
This piece comes from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, and published this week by Twelve.
Before Renée Richards became a star of the professional women's tennis circuit, she was a nice Jewish boy—the puritz, or prince, of her household. Richards was born in 1934 as Richard Raskind, known to everyone as Dick. The child of two doctors in Forest Hills, Queens, Dick spent weekends fetching tennis balls for his father on dirt courts by the Long Island Railroad tracks.
In public, Dick was a self-assured athlete, captain of the Yale tennis team and one of a small number of Jews picked for his fraternity. But he had begun surreptitiously dressing up in his sister's clothes at age 9. In the privacy of his college dorm, he shaved his legs and disguised his genitals, urgently trying to give life to his female side. By this time he'd named her Renée, French for "reborn."
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27 Oct 2012 05:27 PM
The Ambivalent Pioneer
Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/the-ambivalent-pioneer.html (http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/the-ambivalent-pioneer.html)
Tennis player Renée Richards scored a major victory for transgender rights when the New York Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that she was female and, therefore, eligible to play in the US Tennis Association tour. Emily Bazelon explores Richards' conflicted feelings about her legal triumph and the tennis career that followed:
Renée Richards (1934– ), from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.
By Emily Bazelon|Posted Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at 8:00 AM ET
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/10/jewish_jocks_and_ren_e_richards_the_life_of_the_transsexual_tennis_legend.single.html (http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/10/jewish_jocks_and_ren_e_richards_the_life_of_the_transsexual_tennis_legend.single.html)
This piece comes from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, and published this week by Twelve.
Before Renée Richards became a star of the professional women's tennis circuit, she was a nice Jewish boy—the puritz, or prince, of her household. Richards was born in 1934 as Richard Raskind, known to everyone as Dick. The child of two doctors in Forest Hills, Queens, Dick spent weekends fetching tennis balls for his father on dirt courts by the Long Island Railroad tracks.
In public, Dick was a self-assured athlete, captain of the Yale tennis team and one of a small number of Jews picked for his fraternity. But he had begun surreptitiously dressing up in his sister's clothes at age 9. In the privacy of his college dorm, he shaved his legs and disguised his genitals, urgently trying to give life to his female side. By this time he'd named her Renée, French for "reborn."
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27 Oct 2012 05:27 PM
The Ambivalent Pioneer
Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/the-ambivalent-pioneer.html (http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/the-ambivalent-pioneer.html)
Tennis player Renée Richards scored a major victory for transgender rights when the New York Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that she was female and, therefore, eligible to play in the US Tennis Association tour. Emily Bazelon explores Richards' conflicted feelings about her legal triumph and the tennis career that followed: