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"XY Athletes in Women's Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained"

"The historical, political, and medical context of the Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting cases."

Reason · Aug 8, 2024

Sex eligibility rules for female athletes are complex and legally difficult. Here's how they work

Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women's sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2024

Women’s boxing in Olympic storm: who is Algeria’s Imane Khelif and what are the issues she’s facing?

Imane Khelif from Algeria is one of two women boxers at the 2024 Paris Olympics making the news – as ugly issues of gender testing and testosterone levels once again raise their head, as they did in the case of South African runner Caster Semenya. Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin…

The Conversation · Aug 5, 2024

On Sex and Gender

The last time I blogged for the Volokh Conspiracy was in March 2019, following my testimony in the Semenya case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). That case was one of the first—if not the first—to raise two questions which have since become central features of our culture…

Reason · May 20, 2024

Caster Semenya continues court fight to race without lowering testosterone levels

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya arrived at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg on Wednesday for a hearing to decide whether she will have to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in races.

Radio France Internationale · May 15, 2024

Caster Semenya on being told ‘you’re not woman enough’

The two-time Olympic champion has been the subject of fierce debate in the sports community about her status as a female athlete

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023

Caster Semenya says her children will not do athletics as ‘women are treated like animals’

The two-time Olympic gold medal winner has insisted she has no ‘unfair advantage’ over other athletes

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023

Caster Semenya ‘not ashamed’ to be different as dispute continues

The European Court of Human Rights found in July that Semenya’s human rights had been violated by the Swiss government

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023

The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya review – running for her life

Controversy has surrounded the career of the South African athlete. But her timely, sometimes angry memoir inspires compassion

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

Caster Semenya: ‘How would I label myself? I’m an African. I’m a woman. I’m a different woman’

She’s the Olympic gold-winner whose elevated testosterone levels led people to question her right to compete. With a few choice words for World Athletics, the middle-distance runner talks about labels, leaked medical records and how lowering her hormones took its toll on her body

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023