Is Caster Semenya a victim?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Caster Semenya has achieved a lot. An Olympic and World champion, she’s won her last 29 races in a row. But yesterday the 28 year old South African lost her appeal against regulations restricting testosterone levels in female runners. Should she be punished for having a physical advantage? The South African sports journalist Mohammed Allie visited the village where she grew up and BBC Gender and Identity Correspondent Megha Mohan unpacks what Caster Semenya means for our understanding of gender. Producers: Harriet Noble and Duncan Barber Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.8	Hello, this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4 with me, Tina Dehealy.
0:11.2	A space to ask one big question about one big story every day.
0:15.0	Today is Kaste Semenya a victim.
0:21.0	Today is Kasta Semenya a victim. Would it be easier for you if I wasn't so fast?
0:40.0	Kastecemenia has achieved a hell of a lot.
0:44.0	Would it be simpler if I stopped winning?
0:48.0	800-meter Olympic champion.
0:50.0	Would you be more comfortable if I was less proud?
0:55.0	World Champion.
0:57.0	Would you prefer?
0:58.0	I hadn't worked so hard.
1:00.0	She's won her last 29 races in a row.
1:04.0	Oh, just didn't run.
1:09.0	And this is her...
1:10.0	I chose a different spot in a cinematic Nike advert that went viral.
1:17.0	I was stopped at my face steps.
1:20.0	Yesterday the 28 year old lost her appeal against regulations restricting
1:26.7	testosterone levels in female runners. That's too bad because I was born to do this.
1:33.2	She does him again.
1:34.2	Sifinka takes to win. It's what it! Harriet Noble you are producing today's episode. Yes, Cassis Menia, she's a complicated
1:49.4	figure because she clearly does have a physical advantage but should she be
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