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Oscar Pistorius: When A Disadvantage Becomes An Advantage

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.30.2009 | Sports

Read More: Caster Semenya, Prosthetics, Oscar Pistorius, Track and Field, Double Amputee, Olympics, Disabled Runner, Sports News

The case could be made that the efficiency of the prosthetics Pistorius is allowed to use should be governed. But since we're dealing with the disabled, that would seem churlish.

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Caster Semenya's Gender Test, Future Remain Unclear

AP | GRAHAM DUNBAR | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports

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MONACO — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issu...

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Semenya's Struggle Teaches Us About Understanding Gender Identity

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports

Read More: South Africa, Sports, Intersex, Gender Stereotypes, Transgender, Gender Discrimination, Gender Testing, Caster Semenya Gender, Transgendered, Caster Semenya, Transgender Issues, World Championships, Gender, Iaaf, Sports News

A South African runner whose gender identity stirred up huge controversy will be permitted to keep her title and prize money. But how do we define what is too male to compete in a women's sport?

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Caster Semenya's Gender Tests To Remain Secret

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports

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JOHANNESBURG — South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gende...

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Caster Semenya's Lawyers: Guardian Interview "Wrongful And Unlawful"

AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | Sports

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LONDON — Caster Semenya's lawyers say she was tricked into speaking to a reporter at The Guardian for a story in the British newspaper. The 18-...

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Caster Semenya: When Gender Is Not Sex

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Herculine Barbin, Sports, Sex Identity, Michel Foucault, Intersex, Hermaphrodite, Cultural Evolution, Kaate Bornstein, Feminine, Caster Semenya, Masculine, Culture, Gender, Living News

It seems pretty likely that Semenya is no longer going to be allowed to compete as a female in the sport that she loves and has trained so hard for.

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Caster Semenya: Local Gender Tests Done On South African Runner

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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JOHANNESBURG — A South African newspaper has published what it says are e-mails showing local track officials authorized gender tests done in th...

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Yin/Yang: An Intersexed South African Runner As Symbol Of The Universal

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Caster Semenya, Shiva, Suzie Heumann, Personal Growth, Gender, Transgendered, Tantra, Intersexed, Yin/Yang, Shakti, Living News

In some cultures, over the millennia, inter-sexed people have even been revered as shamans and holy people - they are closer to the ideal of a balanced, universal soul. Think of the Yin/Yang symbol. We all know it. It means 'balance' - male/female balance.

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Caster Semenya Gender Test: Outrage, Worry In South Africa Over Report

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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PRETORIA, South Africa — Caster Semenya had heard the taunts and whispers – that she was different from other girls. Now the most intimate...

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Caster Semenya HERMAPHRODITE?: Tests Reveal South African Sprinter Has Both Male, Female Characteristics: REPORT

New York Daily News | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man! The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries and her testo...

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Sept. 7, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Israeli government approves construction of hundreds of new homes in occupied West Bank. How do you say, "Up yours, Obama " in Hebrew?

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After Semenya: Tracking Male and Female, Injury and Insult

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Intersex, Olympics, Sex, Sexism, Track and Field, Caster Semenya, Heterosexism, Gender, Entertainment News

Men's sex advantage in some sports is not a sexist myth, as The Nation would have you believe.

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The Day I Was Miffed That No One Thought I Was a Boy

Kristin Maschka | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: South Africa, South African Runner, Caster Semenya, Running, Entertainment News

To Caster and her family and friends: I share your outrage regardless of the details, I hope your story gives us another chance to challenge everyone's assumptions about gender

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Caster Semenya, Nelson Mandela Meet Amid Gender Testing Uproar

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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JOHANNESBURG — Former President Nelson Mandela has congratulated South African runner Caster Semenya, whose dramatic improvement, deep voice and...

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Caster Semenya Receives Huge Welcome Home, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: We Are Proud Of "Our Little Girl"

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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JOHANNESBURG — Mobbed by a singing, dancing and horn-blowing crowd of supporters at Johannesburg's airport, South African runner Caster Semenya ...

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Genetic Freaks: Semenya & Yao. One Gets Humiliation, the Other Gets an NBA Contract. Why?

Jane Devin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Yao Ming, Caster Semenya, Gender-Testing, Nba, Iaff, Entertainment News

I find it disturbing that anyone, least of all an 18 year-old, would be subjected to forced gender testing in order to appease their competitors.

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Caster Semenya, South Africa Runner In Gender Controversy, To Receive Big Welcome

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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JOHANNESBURG — South African runner Caster Semenya, who is undergoing gender testing after questions arose about her muscular build and deep voi...

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Girl Interrupted on the Track

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gender Identification, Caster Semenya, Renee Richards, Iaaf, Intersex, Babe Didrikson, Berlin Olympic Stadium, Entertainment News

Caster Semenya's brilliant performance in the women's 800 meters race caused critics to regurgitate decades-old slanders traditionally directed at women who appear too manly.

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Caster Semenya Gender Testing Murkier Than It Sounds

AP | JIM LITKE | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

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A learning curve this steep is always going to cause suspicion. A South African teen named Caster Semenya outran her competition in the women's 800 m...

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Letterman Proposes New Test To Settle Question Of Caster Semenya's Gender (VIDEO)

Posted 09.21.2009 | Comedy

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Caster Semenya, the young track and field star who has wowed the world with incredible race times, is under suspicion, not for performance-enhancing d...

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