Caster

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When the South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya won her first 800m gold medal at the Berlin world championships in August 2009, her achievement was marred by controversy. Rivals and commentators alike speculated openly on the “masculinity” of her build and the ease with which she dominated the race.A month later, the results of a gender test she took at the event were leaked. Poignantly, scandalously, she discovered along with the rest of the world that she had been born with “differences in sex development”…

“There is some doubt about the fact that this person is a lady.” It was 2009, and 18-year-old Caster Semenya had just won a gold medal in the 800m at the World Championships in Berlin. The general secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federation (now World Athletics) was addressing the media, announcing that Semenya was clearly “a woman, but maybe not 100%”.Semenya has, to this day, not watched this press conference: “I’ve heard about it, but I don’t care to see it,” she writes in her memoir, The Race to…

Stormzy’s #Merky Books is to publish Olympian Caster Semenya’s memoir this year.South African athlete Semenya, whose book is titled The Race to Be Myself, was just 18 when she won the 800m at the Berlin World Championships in 2009, but her win was quickly overshadowed by questions raised about her sex.The double Olympic champion, who has also been world champion three times, has a condition known as hyperandrogenism, which means she has higher than usual levels of testosterone, increasing her muscle mass, strength and…

“She’s like the Michelangelo of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,” Pamela Des Barres once said of her friend and peer in penis admiration, Cynthia Albritton. Better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, the 74-year-old artist died last week after battling a long illness. She was one of the last living “supergroupies” of the 60s and 70s US music scene, who built a reputation on their famous bonks and tell-all tales. But Albritton went a step further, casting the privates of the musicians she admired and flipping the notion of woman…