Caster Semenya

Pride House London launched ahead of the London Olympics 2012, but LGBT-only, apparently not intersex inclusive

12 December 2011

WE are keenly awaiting a reply from the management of Pride House London as to why intersex people are apparently not included. Pride House is promoted as LGBT. Intersex athletes have competed in the Olympics and other elite sports events for decades. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. It does not include intersex people [...]

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Stephen Lacey’s “Venus v Mars” considers elite intersex athletes competing on more even ground

9 December 2011

SYDNEY Morning Herald (SMH) contributor Stephen Lacey writes about intersex athletes competing without division into male or female. A good article and we look forward to more from Mr Lacey, though without the medically pathologizing phrases “intersex conditions” and “genetic conditions”. The article contains some useful quotes: “This is because gender isn’t the clear-cut either/or [...]

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The Huffington Post: What’s Wrong With “Women’s Rights,” and Why the US Should Ratify CEDAW Anyway

3 December 2010

THE Senate Judiciary Committee recently debated whether the United States should ratify CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. CEDAW guarantees a wide range of equal rights to women in areas such as employment, education and political representation. … Furthermore CEDAW’s focus on women implies that there are two [...]

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USA TODAY: IOC, IAAF to issue guidelines on gender cases

20 November 2010

INTERNATIONAL sports officials are completing guidelines on how to deal with athletes with ambiguous sexual characteristics. Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC’s medical commission, said Friday that rules on gender determination will be issued soon to help resolve an issue that gained global attention with the dispute involving South African runner Caster Semenya. Ljungqvist said [...]

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ESPN Outside the Lines: Professor: Sports need gender policies

11 October 2010

CASTER Semenya’s life changed because of eight seconds. It took 11 months before she could start to piece it back together. In August 2009, the South African runner won the 800-meter world championship in 1:55:45. Immediately following the race, Semenya was forced to skip the postrace news conference and ushered out of the stadium. A [...]

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indieWIRE: In the Works: IFP Edition | 4 New Projects from Indie Film Week – “Ain’t I a Woman”

4 October 2010

Synopsis: ONE in 750 babies are born with a Disorder of Sex Development. In the past, these people were labeled “hermaphrodites,” and captivated the curiosity of the medical establishment. At age 16, filmmaker Robin Honan was diagnosed with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) called Swyer Syndrome – which means she is a woman with [...]

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[Op/Ed] Caster Semenya: Official Mismanagement and Media Confusion

30 September 2010

YESTERDAY reportage on the participation of South Africa’s 800m women’s world champion, Caster Semenya, in the New Delhi Commonwealth Games was confused. Britain’s Guardian carried two contrasting stories in its online edition. Tubby Reddy, the chief executive of South Africa’s Olympic Committee, confirmed tonight that the 800m world champion was not fit enough to make [...]

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Eyewitness News: ‘Mr Semenya’ bungle embarrasses Parliament

15 September 2010

PARLIAMENT’S legal department has come under fire for compiling a poor quality resolution document for the Sport Portfolio Committee. The committee adjourned to consult the legal department after spotting several mistakes in the document, which included a reference to “the gender testing of Mr. C Semenye.” The committee announced on 7 September that it intended [...]

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The Intersex Roadshow: Interphobia – Not Cured by Hiding Us Away

15 September 2010

THERE are rules we live under in our contemporary Western societies that I and many, many other intersex advocates have criticized. The rule that the spectrum of physical sex characteristics we are born with must be forced into dyadic sex assignments, often accompanied by unconsented-to infant genital surgery. The rule that we are supposed to [...]

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OII: Petition to the International Olympic Committee

11 September 2010

Petition to the International Olympic Committee Please sign below We, the undersigned, support the members of the Organisation Intersex International, in their demands that: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reject demands that female athletes with intersex variations have their variations diagnosed and treated. The IOC allow the above mentioned athletes, known as intersex women, to [...]

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smh.com.au: Lewis lines up Semenya

30 August 2010

TRIPLE Olympian Tamsyn Lewis is looking forward to racing South African 800-metre runner Caster Semenya, despite joking that the Hawthorn AFL team ought to sign her for the back pocket. Semenya, the centre of a storm after a gender test last year, finished third in her Diamond League debut in Brussels on Friday night, four [...]

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supersport.com: Athletes may take Caster stand

27 August 2010

WHILE Caster Semenya’s return to athletics has been fairly smooth up to this point, there could be some rocky road ahead as her fellow athletes prepare to have their say. Semenya aims to bag her fourth successive win since making her comeback after a probe into her gender kept her off the track for 11 [...]

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