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"Gender Verification in Sports:" We All Have a Stake in Caster Semenya's Medal

By Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

September 14, 2009 - 7:00am

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When South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800 meter track competition last month in Berlin, some observers questioned Semenya’s “real” sex and she was forced to undergo testing.

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Female South African Athlete Asked to Prove Gender

By Emily Douglas

August 21, 2009 - 10:53am

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Just how many experts does it take to assign someone a gender? The female South African winner of the 800m race at track and field world championships in Berlin has been asked to prove that she is a woman.

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