A review by is_this_mutton_
The Race to be Myself by Caster Semenya

4.0

Caster Semenya was brought up as a girl, a tomboy who played football. There are many kinds of girl, she says. She was always determined to be famous and found her calling in running. She trained alone for a long time before her talent was spotted. When she started winning major races, the IAAF took notice and Caster was subjected to humiliating tests, sometimes without having been told what was being done. She has taken legal action about her human rights being compromised.
She agreed reluctantly to go on the pill to reduce her testosterone levels so that she could continue competing. The IAAF had devised criteria that Caster says was not scientific. She still won many races, in spite of the drug having adverse effects on her health. Her margins of victory were in line with elite women runners, and sometimes she was defeated by the same runners who criticise her.
Semenya was forced by the IAAF to give up competition but she now crusades on behalf of female athletes who have DSD. She does not think of herself as intersex and considers the idea of a 3rd category for intersex and trans athletes of "Other" as shocking and a human rights abuse.
Semenya was a true champion and this is a frank and shocking account of how she and other women with a DSD have been treated.