Caster Semenya, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 800 meters who became famous during the very public and deeply botched handling of questions concerning her gender, is reportedly set to tie the knot with girlfriend Violet Raseboya, a fellow runner.

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Do female athletes with "unusually" high levels of male hormones have an unfair advantage on the field? The International Association of Athletics Federations thinks so: the organization recently decided that a woman cannot compete in track and field sports if she has too much testosterone in her apparently confusing…

Or at least that's what she says in her first interview since being cleared to run as a female. Though she was reportedly "shattered" by the controversy, she insists, "I'm not ashamed of being myself. I know who I am."

Caster Semenya won the 800 meters at the Notturna di Milano meet in Milan yesterday. She finished in 1 minute, 58.16 seconds, her best time since being cleared to run after everyone could finally agree that she's female.

After suffering through last year's humiliating "scandal" over her biological sex, Semenya has returned to the track. However, some of her competitors (we won't name names, but...Diane Cummins and Jemma Simpson) are bitching: "We are literally running against a man."

South African runner Caster Semenya made her triumphant return to running last night at a small athletics meeting in Finland, which she easily won. "I was a little bit nervous because it's been a long time not competing," she said.

[Pretoria, July 8. South African track and field athlete Caster Semenya attends a training session in South Africa]

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Caster Semenya's lawyers told a South African television station yesterday that the results of her tests are in, and they prove that she can compete as a woman. They say she should have been cleared as early as February. [AP]

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Both the IAAF and Athletics South Africa have said Caster Semenya will be allowed to return to competition. Her coach says she will run in local events before returning to the international stage. [BBC]

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Thoughtful articles by Ariel Levy and Judith Butler explore the larger issues of sex and gender behind Caster Semenya's story — and how the mishandling of the young athlete's "gender testing" has affected her life.