Athletics: Semenya will never be as quick as rush to judge her
http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-semenya-will-never-be-as-quick-as-rush-to-judge-her-1867341.html (http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-semenya-will-never-be-as-quick-as-rush-to-judge-her-1867341.html)
Tommy Conlon
Sunday August 23 2009
'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
Thus begins the wonderful, and rather cunningly-named, novel Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, which tells an epic family story through the eyes of your ordinary, everyday hermaphrodite.