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Selective framing: Many athletes like Caster Semenya were assigned female at birth, identify as women and competed under prior legitimate rules.
SPORTS ETHICS

Toxic sports reporting on black athletes

The BBC's coverage of the Women's Tennis Association's new genetic sex testing policy, using visuals of a black woman's hand, highlights a pattern where stories about fairness in…

  • Lelo Mzaca
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