women's sports
Gender Testing and Women's Sports
by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check
August 26, 2009 - 8:12pm (Print)
Testing 18-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya to determine
whether or not she is female is the latest demonstration of the way
societies are unable to accept that gender is fluid and people are not
always "one or the other."
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Falling Bodies, Falling Tears, Rising Hopes: An Olympic Wrap-Up
by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check
August 22, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
During the Olympics, we see women's bodies not for their looks, but for what they can do. Can they stick a landing, enter the water smoothly, sprint through the tape?
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