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. I am one of the greatest track and field athletes to ever run the 800m distance. I’ve won two Olympic gold medals and three world championships, along with dozens of Diamond League meets, and went unbeaten for almost four years. Unfortunately, it is not what I have achieved on the track that has likely brought me to your attention.
I have what is called a difference in sex development , an umbrella term that refers to the varying genetic conditions where an embryo responds in a different way to the hormones that spark the development of internal and external sexual organs. To put it simply, on the outside I am female, I have a vagina, but I do not have a uterus.
Journalists descended into my village and every school I’d ever attended. My parents and siblings, friends, and teachers, were harassed with calls and by visitors, day and night. I can still hear my mother wailing desperately as she tried to explain to perfect strangers that I was born a girl, and that I was her little girl, and why was all of this happening?
I am still standing; I am still here. What has been said about me in the media is not who I really am. I’ve heard myself described as “surly”, “rude”, “shy”, “stoic”, “dignified”, and “superhuman”. All those things may seem true, at times. I’m also quite charming and funny, and I’ve been said to have a biting wit.
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