“THERE ARE MORE [PEOPLE] WHO ARE INTERSEX THAN THERE ARE BOTSWANANS”

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John Lancaster in “The London Review of Books” (a publication that is decent, except for publishing the rants of the South African neoconservative, R W Johnson) on the prejudices exposed by reactions to Caster Semenya. About these ads

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CASTER SEMENYA AND THE IDEA OF “NORMAL” BOYS AND GIRLS

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With the media spectacle around world beating athlete Caster Semenya gaining fever pitch, South African newspaper “The Cape Times” sacrificed one of its reporters working tirelessly on inequality in South Africa, to find out how common “intersexuality” is: “True hermaphroditism is more common in South Africa than anywhere else in the world. And specialists who […]

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