Testing Sex, Attributing Gender: What Caster Semenya Means to Women’s Sports

Either/or: sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.

Policing the boundaries of sex: a critical examination of gender verification and the Caster Semenya controversy.

On August 19, 2009, Caster Semenya, South African track star, won a gold medal in the women's 800-meter event. According to media reports, on the same day, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ordered Semenya to undergo gender verification testing. This article critically assesses the main concepts and claims that undergird international sport organizations' policies re...

Caster Semenya: sport, categories and the creative role of ethics.

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The investigation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was neither discreet nor respectful of her privacy. Caster's case has implications for the ethics of sports and debates ab...

Development of wheelchair caster testing equipment and preliminary testing of caster models

BACKGROUND Because of the adverse environmental conditions present in less-resourced environments (LREs), the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that specialised wheelchair test methods may need to be developed to support product quality standards in these environments. A group of experts identified caster test methods as a high priority because of their common failure in LREs, and...

Are the new policies on hyperandrogenism in elite female athletes really out of bounds? Response to "out of bounds? A critique of the new policies on hyperandrogenism in elite female athletes".

In May 2011, more than a decade after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandoned sex testing, they devised new policies in response to the IAAF's treatment of Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose sex was challenged because of her spectacular win and powerful physique that fueled an international frenzy question...