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Caster Semenya... Boy or Girl?
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Gender Discrimination in Athletes
$1.25
Vol XCIII, No. 311
Thursday, May 13, 2015
Kye Allums
Young Olympian subjected to gender testing in front of the world
- Allums made history when he was the first out transgender man to participate in division 1 competition.
- One year Allums competed on George Washington University womans basketball team
- After being banned from sports he was approved to return and decided not to.
About Caster Semenya
The controversy
what has been changed
-Mokgadi Caster Semenya
-born 7 January 1991
- a South African middle-distance runner and world champion.
- Semenya won gold in the women's 800 meters at the 2009 World Championships with a time of 1:55.45 in the final.
- Semenya also won silver medals at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics, both in the 800 meters and the 1500 meters .
- Although this is an ongoing issue in today's society many programs have been created to help protect athletes from gender discrimination.
- The largest organization is known as the International Olympic Committee.
- The goal of this program is to provide equality to lesbian, gay bisexual, and transgender athletes.
The race that changed it all
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- No single human should be questioned about their gender
- " The microscopic details wont change the opinions of those who will loo for a reason, and reason to remover her from the track. The world has no right to view her as a human lab specimen on a glass slide."
Renee' Richards
The race that changed it all
In this race Semenya made her biggest improvement and shocked the world.
This is where all her troubles began...
- In 1976 transgender tennis player Renee Richards was put in the spotlight when she wanted to compete in the U.S open.
- She entered the open singles division but was denied entry when a rule was changed on purpose to prevent her from playing.
- People created the rumor that she was transgender, and because of that she would be at an advantage when playing other females
- Renee went through sex reassignment surgery at a young age.
- "Growing up I knew that I was a girl all along"
- Richards should not have been denied entry because after surgery she was clearly a woman, in no way was she trying to cheat.
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