Indian athlete, Santhi Soundarajan, attempted suicide after failing a gender test. Soudarajan touches in on the debate about South African runner Caster Semenya. Just how important is it to maintain a strictly dichotomous understanding of gender and sex even when impossible to neatly fit some individuals into those categories? Are we willing to risk losing lives to categorize them?
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/14/Semenya.India.Athlete/index.html?eref=edition
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