the caster semenya debate (is she a woman?) seems almost like a performance studies case file. i don't mean to assume any identification for her, conventional or non-, but continue to marvel that in the face of so much evidence that gender and sex simply can't be accounted for by a binary, debate still centers around the is/isn't she armwrestle rather than a suggestion of a continuum (or series of venn diagrams, or a polymap, or . . . whatever someone smart is going to come up with next).
my favorite quote: “For me, she is not a woman" (Italy's Elisa Piccione, an eclisped competitor). not that it's contingent, or anything.
(also interesting? that image, which i shamelessly ganked from the site cited below, has a default file name that starts with "BOY2". someone's decided.)
story via the UK times online.
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