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Jane Austen, forever. Plus: trans inclusion in sports

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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Women With Differences in Sex Development

Caster Cimenia won the gold medal in the women's 800 meters at two consecutive Olympics. In 2009, after winning her first world championship gold, World Track and Field Governing Body made her undergo sex testing. They found that Caster has an intersex condition that causes naturally elevated testosterone levels. And they cleared her to compete again. She was shocked and embarrassed by the sex testing because she never doubted her own sex or gender.

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