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What Semenya’s Critics AND Defenders Fear

Started by Natasha, September 03, 2009, 05:17:16 PM

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September 03, 2009, 05:17:16 PM
What Semenya's Critics AND Defenders Fear

http://jessicalive.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/what-semenyas-critics-and-defenders-fear/
9/3/09

The history of female athletes of superlative performance has long been one of their adopting feminine gender expression–and emphatically so–not only to offset their physical male characteristics, musculature, lack of breasts, endurance, deep voice, not usually associated with a female body but also to deflect the slur of homosexuality–and the consequence of sex-testing, which indignity Semenya is now undergoing.
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