According to the AP, the South African Olympic committee is finally investigating the Caster Semenya case. Questions about the runner’s gender, and how SA officials handled a “developing situation” prior to the IAAF world championships in Berlin, have continued to emerge in the SA press. The hearings began last Friday and are sure to [...]
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Caster Semenya — the plot thickens
Semenya has returned home to Johannesburg amid a hero’s welcome…and a growing international incident around her gender and the investigation thereof. The IAAF are culpable for the leaks that keep happening, since — according to their own rules — the investigation should have been kept confidential. The South African government is making loud noises of [...]
Is female track champ really a male?
One of the stranger sports stories is occurring in Berlin, where an investigation has been opened into the gender of the winner of the women’s 800 meters at the World Track and Field Championships. Reports Phil Hersh in the L.A. Times:
At least two of the seven runners who lost to Caster Semenya are convinced she [...]
Trans Filipino Basketball: Funny or foul?
I cringed when I started watching this video. But as it went along and I saw how much fun the players were having, I began laughing along with them and ultimately really enjoyed it. I mean, they’re not even dribbling: How can you take it seriously?
Hat tip to Deadspin.
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Trans player in Aussie Rules Football
An Aussie Rules Football fan is hoping to become the first transgender person to play competitive football Down Under. In an article Sunday with The Age, Will (doesn’t give his last name) said he’s spoken to a former captain of the Collingwood Football Club, Nathan Buckley, who supports Will’s attempt. Will has also met with [...]
Danica Patrick’s gender-bending ad
Danica Patrick has appeared in a commercial for Boost Mobile, a phone service provider. The commercial features a pit crew wearing women’s clothing (high heels, skirts - you know the drill), and it has angered some transgender people who say that showing men in women’s clothing can lead to attacks on transgender rights. Others seem [...]
USA Today explores Penner’s transition back
In April 2007, Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner became Christine Daniels, announcing in a column that he was transitioning to she. Last October, Daniels ditched her chosen name and became a man again, writing under the name Mike Penner. It was a confusing re-transition for many, and USA Today this week has tackled the [...]
VLOG: Series, Manny, Mike Penner
Cyd is hoping that the Phillies can take the Series and bring Philadelphia its first pro title in 25 years. Should the Dodgers pay big for Manny? A hot pitcher in the series. And Christine Daniels becomes Mike Penner again.
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Whoops, forget it: Christine is Mike again
We’ve seen some strange story twists here at Outsports over the years. The whole Mike Danton saga comes to mind. But this one might take the cake. We reported 18 months ago that LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner had become Christine Daniels. Daniels wrote an LA Times column about it, was given a personal blog [...]
Jim Rome apologizes to GLAAD
I can’t stand Jim Rome. The screaming has always grated on me, his homophobia comes and goes, and he’s more style than substance. So it was with great joy that I heard from Ted Rybka at GLAAD that they had taken Rome to task over his coverage of the Ronaldo hooker story, in which Rome [...]
Ronaldo has it out with transvestites
Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldo, who plays for AC Milan in Italy, was involved in an altercation in Rio de Janeiro after discovering that three prostitutes he picked up were transvestites.
Police said that the incident began when Ronaldo discovered he was dealing with transvestites instead of women and was reportedly infuriated. Carlos Augusto Nogueira, a police [...]
Female Olympic pole vaulter to become a man
Olympic pole vaulter Yvonne Buschbaum, who finished sixth in 2000, has said on her Web site that she is beginning the process to become a man.
“I feel as if I am a man and have to live my life in the body of a woman,” Buschbaum said in a statement on her Web site, according [...]
Androgynous runner’s quest to get her medal back
Santhi Soundarajan, the Indian runner who won a silver medal in the 800-meter at the most recent Asian Games and then was stripped of it when she failed a gender test, has found a friend. Transgender Canadian cyclist Kristen Worley (who, via a third party, has contacted Outsports to let us know she considers herself [...]
