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Why does the sports world remain fiercely hostile to open participation by LGBT athletes?
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Runner Caster Semenya showed up to race this week and the International Association of Athletics Federations wouldn't let her--when Semenya's only "crime" is that she may be intersex.
The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low.
South African runner Caster Semenya shouldn't be the one humiliated by "gender testing"--it's the outdated views of athletic officials that are embarrassing.
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