http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/ A soccer blog featuring essays, news and photography exploring soccer around the world Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/comment-page-1/#comment-28125 The African Women’s Championship and the Curious Case of Equatorial Guinea | Pitch Invasion Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:25:24 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=2400#comment-28125 [...] by not limiting itself to women.  In another curious twist that was mentioned by Jennifer Doyle here on Pitch Invasion, and discussed in a bit more detail on the TransGriot blog, the Nigerians claimed at least two of [...] [...] by not limiting itself to women.  In another curious twist that was mentioned by Jennifer Doyle here on Pitch Invasion, and discussed in a bit more detail on the TransGriot blog, the Nigerians claimed at least two of [...]

]]> http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/comment-page-1/#comment-8501 Jennifer Doyle Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:06:04 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=2400#comment-8501 Thank you for the support for this perspective! I have to say, the piece I wrote is directly informed by my experience playing on Hackney Women FC in London - a lesbian-feminist/proqueer team founded in the 1980s - I played with women of every stripe, saw players embrace each other for who they are (even as we may have had our quibbles with each other about the game). I don't know when I've enjoyed such a sense of collaboration & community If I write with a sense of possibility - imagining something besides the airless space of mainstream sports when it comes to women - it's thanks to Hackney. Thank you for the support for this perspective! I have to say, the piece I wrote is directly informed by my experience playing on Hackney Women FC in London – a lesbian-feminist/proqueer team founded in the 1980s – I played with women of every stripe, saw players embrace each other for who they are (even as we may have had our quibbles with each other about the game). I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed such a sense of collaboration & community If I write with a sense of possibility – imagining something besides the airless space of mainstream sports when it comes to women – it’s thanks to Hackney.

]]> http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/comment-page-1/#comment-8500 phillypride Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:26:08 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=2400#comment-8500 Thank you for the thoughtful discussion of this important issue. Thank you for the thoughtful discussion of this important issue.

]]> http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/comment-page-1/#comment-8493 Fake SIgi Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:22:55 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=2400#comment-8493 Great piece. Great piece.

]]> http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/comment-page-1/#comment-8485 Erinti Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:02:03 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=2400#comment-8485 This genderqueer-identified, female-bodied (for now) person would like to thank you from the bottom of hir shrivelled little heart for raising these issues. I don't do sports, but similar issues just keep cropping up in all areas of life, and I think it's high time we as a civilization had a good think about what it is we really want from classification systems that put people into discrete little boxes based on what we're increasingly finding to be continuous characteristics. This genderqueer-identified, female-bodied (for now) person would like to thank you from the bottom of hir shrivelled little heart for raising these issues. I don’t do sports, but similar issues just keep cropping up in all areas of life, and I think it’s high time we as a civilization had a good think about what it is we really want from classification systems that put people into discrete little boxes based on what we’re increasingly finding to be continuous characteristics.

]]> http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2009/08/21/testing-the-gender-boundaries-caster-semenya-maribel-dominguez-and-noko-matlou/comment-page-1/#comment-8480 Comptia A+ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:26:24 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=2400#comment-8480 We don’t discriminate against tall women and say they shouldn’t compete because they’re too tall. If they have been born and raised as women and they think about themselves as women I would say let them compete as women. <a href="http://www.ccnacertificationguide.com" rel="nofollow">ccna</a> <a href="http://www.ccent.ws" rel="nofollow">ccent</a> We don’t discriminate against tall women and say they shouldn’t compete because they’re too tall.
If they have been born and raised as women and they think about themselves as women I would say let them compete as women.
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