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The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has called for an end to the discrimination against athlete Caster Semenya. Semenya has been frozen out of the sport for refusing to take medicine to lower her testosterone levels. The commission says there are still many discriminatory hurdles that intersex persons must overcome. This as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a ruling on the Caster Semenya's case in July this year. The court found that World Athletics is bound by international law and may not discriminate without compelling reasons for doing so. For more on this Elvis Presslin spoke to the Acting Head of Legal Services at the Commission for Gender Equality, Tsietsi Shuping
By SAfmThe Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has called for an end to the discrimination against athlete Caster Semenya. Semenya has been frozen out of the sport for refusing to take medicine to lower her testosterone levels. The commission says there are still many discriminatory hurdles that intersex persons must overcome. This as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a ruling on the Caster Semenya's case in July this year. The court found that World Athletics is bound by international law and may not discriminate without compelling reasons for doing so. For more on this Elvis Presslin spoke to the Acting Head of Legal Services at the Commission for Gender Equality, Tsietsi Shuping

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