Category Woman

When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but instead launched a series of increasingly invasive public attacks, exposing her personal medical records via the international media, and stirring relentless debates on her “legitimacy” as an athlete and as a woman. Using women’s naturally varying androgen levels to evaluate their performance advantages, the sporting institution World Athletics create new rules declaring certain female athletes must medically alter their healthy bodies to compete in their sport. Category: Woman focuses on four athletes from the Global South who are targeted and forced out of competition by these regulations, and explores the devastation both to their bodies and their private lives. Filmmaker and former Olympian Phyllis Ellis exposes an industry controlled by men that puts women’s lives at risk and raises issues of racism, sexism, and the right to determine another persons’ biological sex.

With introduction and a discussion after the screening!

USA 2022, 76 Min., Regie: Phyllis Ellis, Mehrsprachige Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln

Das Lumière ist über einen Lift rollstuhlgerecht erreichbar und es gibt eine barrierearme Toilette.

Die Veranstaltung ist offen für Alle und auf Englisch.