Katelyn Burns is a freelance journalist based in New England. She was the first openly transgender Capitol Hill reporter in U.S. history.
Few athletes have found themselves at the center of the public debate over gender in sports as much as Caster Semenya, an Olympic champion middle-distance runner from South Africa. In 2009, Semenya’s gender was questioned by several of her competitors, which kicked off a targeted media campaign that resulted in the World Athletics governing body banning her from her best events because she was born with differences in sex development .
They’d only consider her female if she ran sprints or long-distance races. It is one of the more absurd policies ever to be implemented in any sport. If Semenya wants to compete in any of her best events, World Athletics has said, she’ll have to take a testosterone suppressant. Semenya’s response to that has been “hell no!” “I’ll always run 800 meters,” she told Al Jazeera in 2019. “The 800 meters is my calling, I believe in it. I can’t be forced to switch races.
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