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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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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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South African Journal of Sports Medicine: The science and management of sex verification in sport

28 September 2010

Abstract: http://ajol.info/index.php/sasma/article/view/50506/0 THE verification of gender eligibility in sporting competition poses a biological and management challenge for sports science and medicine, as well as for sporting authorities. It has been established that in most sporting events, the strength and power advantage possessed by males as a result of the virilising action of hormones such as [...]

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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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The Daily Telegraph: Caster’s rivals are running on empty

25 August 2010

BUT matters became decidedly uncomfortable for Semenya when she ran 1:59.90, her first time under two minutes in the third race of her comeback after being sidelined for 11 months by the IAAF, which investigated results of her sex test and her high levels of the banned masculinising hormone testosterone. “Unfortunately for Caster, she’s grown [...]

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guardian.co.uk: Caster Semenya returns to the track in triumph after year in limbo

16 July 2010

A young athlete who last year won a gold medal in the women’s 800m at the World Championships in Berlin before her career was thrown into limbo when questions were asked about her sex, last night made a triumphant return to the track after an enforced 11-month absence. Caster Semenya made her long-awaited return at [...]

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[Op/Ed] Caster Semenya: Post-mortem of a debacle

14 July 2010

Author: Jo Proctor, board member, OII Australia IF the International Amateur Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) terse three sentence statement, issued on the sixth of July, is anything to go by, the organization is determined to close down any further discussion of the Caster Semenya debacle.

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The Guardian: Caster Semenya may return to track this month after IAAF clearance

7 July 2010

SPECULATION as to what that “process” might have entailed has been rife, with unconfirmed reports suggesting that rather than waiting for the results of a gender verification test – as had been claimed by the IAAF – she has been undergoing hormone-based treatment for what is widely accepted to be an intersex condition. As Pierre [...]

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The Independent: Semenya news conference cancelled

13 June 2010

ATHLETICS South Africa has made clear Semenya is not banned from competition but said she must wait for the results of her tests from the International Association of Athletics Federations. Her lawyers said in April that the tests proved she could run as a female. Asked to comment on South African television reports that Semenya [...]

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OpposingViews: What Qualifies an Athlete to be Eligible as a “Woman”?

8 June 2010

I think the whole “level playing field” argument is bogus myself. Why are our undies in such a bunch about women who are intersex and transgender women competing with other women when we don’t even think twice about many other kinds of competitive advantages that some athletes enjoy. Other genetic conditions confer advantage too, but [...]

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TimesLive: Caster ‘a victim of image management’

18 May 2010

“AS many as eight intersex women may have been expelled from athletics in the past and I gather that they were warned that if they made a fuss, they would be exposed. So it seems it’s not about athletic advantage, it’s about keeping the Olympics free of unwanted complications. It sends the message that women [...]

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