The story of the South African runner Caster Semenya embodies these tensions perhaps more than any other. Compare Caster Semenya with Bolt and she’s not such an outlier. “The IAAF must show that female athletes with higher total T [testosterone] have a performance difference that approximates what male athletes typically have over female athletes; not that female athletes with higher T have any competitive advantage over their peers. I mean everybody loves Caster Semenya, the most patriarchal, misogynist, homophobe loves Caster. Well yeah, unless it’s for the men.’” Ahmed laughs as she describes desperately trying to find international women’s sport on TV in Canada.

Source: The Guardian February 18, 2018 00:00 UTC