Caster Semenya, Defiant After Race Win, Says She Won’t Take Hormone Reducing Drugs — TIME

Caster Semenya honors humanity with her determination to live, love, run, and delight in her body as her own self – maintaining and celebrating her body’s integrity !!! 

Caster Semenya was defiant in every way at what very well could be her last 800 meter race. Her raised fist at the start. Her unstoppable victory. And with her reply Friday to the big question of whether she will now submit to new testosterone regulations in track and field and take hormone-reducing medication. “Hell…

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I love this woman and her dynamic spirit in a time that tries to unhindered her from who she knows herself to be in this world

“I am a woman and I am fast”: what Caster Semenya’s story says about gender and race in sports

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/testosterone-caster-semenya.html?searchResultPosition=1

 

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/5/3/18526723/caster-semenya-800-gender-race-intersex-athletes

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