I've gotten dozens of emails today about Caster Semenya, the South African teenager who won the 800-meters at the world track championships so decisively on Wednesday that she was asked to undergo tests to confirm she's actually a woman.
Earlier today, she took the gold in the final.
More coverage here (check out the repeated use of misogynist epithets) and here, with more coverage easily found with a quick Google, all of which is so rife with a clusterfuck of misogyny and transphobia that I'm rather convinced I could spend an entire decade parsing it all.
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