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Olympics struggle with ‘policing femininity’

In a move critics call “policing femininity,” recent rule changes by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the governing body of track and field, state that for a woman to compete, her testosterone must not exceed the male threshold.

Caster Semenya, 21, who lives and trains at the centre as unobtrusively as possible, remains the unwilling poster girl for the issue….

The gender investigation began after officials received an anonymous complaint. “I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being,” Semenya said in comments released by her legal advisers at the time.
Posted on Sunday, June 10 2012. Tagged with: olympicssportsfeminitymasculinitygender
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