{"id":2109,"date":"2009-08-30T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:34:29","slug":"trans-and-intersex-rights-groups-respond-to-public-debate-about-caster-semenya-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/trans-and-intersex-rights-groups-respond-to-public-debate-about-caster-semenya-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2009 \u2014 Trans and Intersex Rights Groups Respond to Public Debate About Caster Semenya, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2009, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/the-first-african-intersex-organisation-formed-south-africa\/\">Intersex South Africa (ISSA)<\/a><\/em>\u2019s Sally Gross, U.S. academic Amanda Lock Swarr, and <em>Gender DynamiX (GDX)<\/em>\u2019s Liesl Theron co-authored a critical think piece that was published in the Fall edition of the <em>Feminist Studies Journal<\/em>. The piece, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/swarr_gross_theron_feministstudies.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1220\">\u201cSouth African Intersex Activism: Caster Semenya\u2019s Impact and Import\u201d<\/a><\/em>,<em> <\/em>looks at the public responses from ISSA and GDX to the public debate that erupted around Caster Semenya and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2009\/aug\/23\/caster-semenya-athletics-gender\">gender verification tests she was forced to undergo by the IAAF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Caster-1024x686.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Caster-1024x686.webp 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Caster-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Caster-768x514.webp 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Caster.webp 1075w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2009, Intersex South Africa (ISSA)\u2019s Sally Gross, U.S. academic Amanda Lock Swarr, and Gender DynamiX (GDX)\u2019s Liesl Theron co-authored a critical think piece that was published in the Fall edition of the Feminist Studies Journal. The piece, \u201cSouth African Intersex Activism: Caster Semenya\u2019s Impact and Import\u201d, looks at the public responses from ISSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,33,248],"tags":[77,83,163,54,47,221,64,45,27,247],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-intersex","category-sport","tag-amanda-lock-swarr","tag-caster-semenya","tag-gdx","tag-gender-dynamix","tag-intersex-society-of-south-africa","tag-issa","tag-liesl-theron","tag-sally-gross","tag-south-africa","tag-tebogo-nkoana"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}