The Gender Persecution Of Caster Semenya
August 28, 2009 by James Hipps
Last week South African track and field runner Caster Semenya won the gold medal for the 800-meter race at the track and field world championships.
Some reacted to Semenya’s victory as expected: singing, dancing, and horn-blowing from fellow South-Africans as she arrived in Johannesburg following the race. Others met her with disbelief and disgust. “Just look at her,” Russian Mariya Savinova, the fifth placer told journalists in Berlin. “For me, she’s not a woman. She’s a man,” Italian and sixth-place loser Elisa Cusma Piccione said.
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