In the Tokyo Games, along with Semenya, the other runners who have said they're affected by the rules are all African: from Kenya, Burundi, Niger and Namibia. It's a visceral problem, the issues of femininity: Who owns femininity, and who gets to decide what that looks like?"Ĭonsider that the women who have publicly run afoul of the gender verification rules are all from the Global South. "This idea, right, that some women are more woman than others. "There is a definite history of people seeing certain women as not woman enough," she says. Semenya smiles before competing in the women's 200 meter during the Athletics Gauteng North Championships in Pretoria on March 13, 2020. In a tweet announcing her latest appeal, Semenya wrote, "All we ask is to be able to run free as the strong and fearless women we are!!" This year, she launched a new appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which has not yet ruled on the case. Her subsequent appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal also failed. Ultimately, Semenya took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled against her in 2019, judging that the testosterone regulations were "necessary, reasonable and proportionate" to " the integrity of female athletics." The battle over her eligibility, along with that of other athletes', has been waged ever since. Her blistering speed and physique raised suspicions, and afterward, she was required to take a sex verification test. She was just 18 when she blew away the field to win her first world championship in the 800 meters in Berlin.
Semenya, 30, was raised female, identifies as female and is legally female.
"No freakin' way!" she told an interviewer on South African television. Under World Athletics' regulations, to compete in the restricted events, the affected DSD, or intersex, athletes are now required to lower their testosterone levels with birth control pills, hormone shots or surgery. Urn:oclc:760463049 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120209053051 Scanner has been in a long legal battle to "run free" OL8163389W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.07 Pages 294 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:2721005529 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:09:39 Boxid IA171701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Date-raw JanuDonorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Reprint.
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