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Caster Semenya

The Nation: The parts of a woman

6 March 2010

Society defines womanhood and decides who fits the role, but the question is how. Is being born with female genitalia requisite? Nature won’t be so easily categorised, and people are born with the genitals of both sexes, or neither, more often than you might think. Read more »

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Op/Ed: Sexism is the Issue with the IOC

5 March 2010

The issue with the IOC – International Olympic Committee – is sexism and every woman should be outraged.Why?
Physical advantage
Every gold medallist since the beginning of the modern Olympics, and most likely those in the old Olympics has a physical advantage over his competitors. The underlying prejudice in the current situation is that ‘male’ physical advantage [...] Read more »

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ABC: Hungry Beast: Episode 16: Two Intersex People Meet and Talk about Being Intersex

24 February 2010

EPISODE 16: WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH AT 9PM ON ABC1 AND AT WWW.ABC.NET.AU/HUNGRYBEAST
Last year, South African runner Caster Semenya made world headlines following questions as to whether she was a man or a woman after winning gold in the women’s 800 metres at the World Championships in Athletics. This week on HUNGRY BEAST, reporter Ali Russell [...] Read more »

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IOC and gender inquisition

25 January 2010

Writer:
Patricia Nell Warren
While the IAAF has been backing and filling on the Caster Semenya case, many of us have been waiting for the IOC shoe to drop. Yesterday the shoe dropped. In Miami Beach, a panel of so-called “experts” convened by the IOC and the IAAF has announced from their imperial heights, “Athletes who identify [...] Read more »

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The New York Times Continues to Botch Up on Caster Semenya & Intersex

20 January 2010

The other, usually much more credible, Murdoch newspaper whose coverage of the Mokgadi Caster Semenya story we have been watching continues to disappoint just as The Daily Telegraph does. Read more »

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Telegraph.co.uk – IAAF offers to pay for Caster Semenya’s gender surgery if she fails verification test

14 December 2009

The International Association of Athletics Federations has offered to pay Caster Semenya’s medical expenses should she require gender surgery or other treatment to continue competing as a woman.
The IAAF is still awaiting the final results of the gender verification test carried out on the South African teenager during the World Championships in Berlin in [...] Read more »

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An Article on Caster Semenya & Intersex from Judith Butler

22 November 2009

…The whole debate also elides the condition of intersex. We might say as well that the institution of world sports rests upon a certain denial of intersex as a persistent dimension of human morphology, genetics and endocrinology. What would happen if the IAAF or any other world sports organisation decided that it needed to come [...] Read more »

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Green Left: The fight for intersex rights

17 November 2009

What are the issues with intersex marriage rights in Australia?
Intersex challenges the notion of what is a man and what is a woman. The marriage act defines marriage as a relationship “between a man and a woman”. We say the act should therefore define “man” and “woman”, and we also maintain that this is impossible [...] Read more »

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Interview with Gerald Callahan on CBC

17 October 2009

Gerald N. Callahan:
When I began looking into it I discovered that the biochemistry and genetics that underlie the process of sex development in a fetus are very complex events, and in fact imagining they will turn out just one of two ways is really not very thoughtful. For example: I think the processes that generate [...] Read more »

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The Persecution of Caster Semenya, by Farida Iqbal

29 September 2009

Farida Iqbal has republished her excellent article on Ms Semenya in another online venue, and has added a note about ISNA. Thank you for your fine work in support of intersex people, Farida! Read more »

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An Australian Article That Gets It Almost Completely Right, With Exceptions

21 September 2009

With the exception of some very out of date information about an organization once named ‘Hermaphrodites with Attitude’ that morphed into the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), that then ejected almost all its actual intersex members to morph into an organization of, by and for the support of doctors who conduct non-consensual experimental cosmetic [...] Read more »

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Now Murdoch’s The Australian Decides to Insult Intersex People

19 September 2009

As if it wasn’t enough that Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph has been insulting and slandering intersex people in general and Caster Semenya in particular, its sister broadsheet The Australian has decided to put the boots into intersex people too. Kick us while we are down, Wendy, why don’t you? Read more »

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