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Who's a woman?

Started by Shana A, July 18, 2010, 07:57:49 AM

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Who's a woman?

Style Observer
Sharon Leach
Sunday, July 18, 2010

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/Who-s-a-woman_7802263

So. After 11 months of sitting around waiting for her bizarre gender-testing results, South African middle-distance runner and world champion Mokgadi Caster Semenya has finally been cleared to once again compete in IAAF-sanctioned competitions. In other words, they've cleared her to be classified as a woman - how she has always seen herself.

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All the world loves a spectacle, I guess. And the circus was evidently in town. Only, instead of the bearded lady, dwarves and fire-eaters, it was Semenya the curiosity people wanted to gawp at.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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