South African runner, Caster Semenya, who recently won a gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships, has had her gender tested on order of the International Association of Athletics Federation, and reports are leaking out of Australia that she may be intersex, exhibiting both male and female physical characteristics.
Raised in a poor village in South Africa, it is very possible Caster herself, who has lived her life as a woman, did not know this fact.
What can be learned from Caster’s story? Read here to learn more about the current controversy over her testing. Click here for noted sociologist Mike Messner’s thoughts from a post to the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. For more about what intersex means, click here.
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