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CATEGORY: WOMAN
When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but marred by doubt, her personal medical records leaked to the international media. The International Amateur Athletics Federation (now World Athletics), considering naturally high androgen levels a performance advantage, ruled that targeted female athletes must medically alter their healthy bodies in order to compete. Category: Woman follow four elite athletes from the Global South forced out of competition by these regulations, and the subsequent devastation to their bodies and livelihoods. Following her award-winning film Toxic Beauty, filmmaker and Olympian Phyllis Ellis exposes an industry controlled by men putting women’s lives at risk while the policing of women’s bodies in sport remains, in a more nefarious way, under the guise of fair play.
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