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International Association of Athletics Federations

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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The Daily Telegraph’s Mike Hurst is at it again

11 February 2010

South African athletics is still in denial over their controversial 800m runner Caster Semenya and the ruthless people who entered the intersexual in the women’s world championship in Berlin last year. … 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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Sowetan: Where to Semenya? Runner’s future unclear as athletics season looms

16 January 2010

“The medical testing of the athlete is still to be completed,” said the IAAF, which has made it clear the results will be given personally to Semenya. 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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The New Yorker: Either/Or: Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya, by Ariel Levy

2 December 2009

…One afternoon at the High Performance Centre, I sat up in the bleachers, killing time before a meeting with Kobus Van der Walt. I was surrounded by a spread of neatly partitioned fields, like a Brueghel painting: there are twenty-four cricket nets, six rugby fields, twenty-two outdoor tennis courts, nine soccer fields, seven squash courts, [...] 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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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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The Nation Says ‘Stop the Sex Scare’

18 September 2009
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An African Commentary on Caster Semenya

18 September 2009
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Sarah Graham Comments on the Caster Semenya Controversy

18 September 2009

… I was 25 when I found out the extent of the cover-up.
The shock of suddenly being told the true nature of my diagnosis – with no support and after being systematically lied to for so many years – nearly killed me. I went into an emotional meltdown.
What I found out – after years of [...] Read more »

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IAAF Document Permits Humiliation of Athletes?

16 September 2009

So this, then is the IAAF policy document that permits the organization to humiliate brilliant young athletes such as Mokgadi Caster Semenya?
Download it and read for yourself… Read more »

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