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July 6, 2010
The controversial distance runner is allowed to race as a woman.
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September 9, 2009
After weeks of confusion over Caster Semenya's gender, one abominable thing has happened. She's been put on the cover of South Africa's YOU magazine. In a dress.
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August 28, 2009
At eighteen, I could barely answer "Who are you?" Did her peers, the IAAF, media and American public really have the audacity to ask Caster Semenya "What are you?"
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August 28, 2009
Although the levels proved to be higher than usual, Caster Semenya's test results from three years ago are within range for a woman. Can the debate end now?
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by Kai Wright onAugust 25, 2009
Caster Semenya’s humanity has already been sacrificed to Western culture’s desperate, frightened effort to maintain the fiction of binary, fixed gender.
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by Helena Andrews onAugust 25, 2009
The gender issue surrounding Caster Semenya seems to directly question race and beauty. Who gets to set the standards?
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August 20, 2009
South African runner Caster Semenya just won the 800-meter gold medal at the World Athletics Championship. So why is everyone questioning her gender?
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