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Renée Richards. Renée Richards (born August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist and former professional tennis player who competed in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open. [ 2] The United States Tennis Association began requiring ...
Thirty-nine years ago on August 27, 1976, transgender eye doctor and tennis player Renee Richards was barred from competing in the United States Open tennis tournament. While temporarily defeated ...
When Richards attempted to apply for the 1976 U.S. Open, the USTA refused to let her compete unless she took a chromosome test that affirmed her gender. Tennis: Trans hero Renee Richards won her ...
Richards refused to take the test and was banned from the US Open. [25] She filed a lawsuit in 1977, claiming that her civil rights were violated and that the policy was unfair. The New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor, saying that the Barr body test as the sole determinant of sex was "grossly unfair" and ruled Richards legally female. [27]
Professional tennis player Renée Richards, a transgender woman, was barred from playing as a woman at the 1976 US Open unless she submitted to chromosome testing. She sued the United States Tennis Association and in 1977 won the right to play as a woman without submitting to testing. [76] American Collegiate athlete Lia Thomas, is a ...
More than 40 years ago, Renée Richards successfully fought for the right to play women’s tennis after undergoing gender confirmation surgery. Richards goes unmentioned in “Changing the Game ...
Judge Alfred M. Ascione of the U.S. state of New York ruled in favor of Renee Richards in her suit against the United States Tennis Association (ASTA) and allowed her to compete in the U.S. Open. Richards, an ophthalmologist who had formerly been Richard Raskind, underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1975 while transitioning from a man to a woman.
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