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Renée Richards (New York, 19 agosto 1934) è un'oculista ed ex tennista statunitense. È stata la prima tennista transessuale della storia.
- Early Life
- Transition
- Court Case
- Tennis Career After Transitioning
- Retirement
- Movies and Books
- External Links
Richards was born Richard Raskin on August 19, 1934, in New York City and raised, as she put it, as "a nice Jewish boy" in Forest Hills, Queens. Her father David Raskind was an orthopedic surgeon, and her mother was one of the first female psychiatrists in the United States, in addition to being a professor at Columbia University. Richards attended...
During college Richards began dressing as a woman, which at the time was considered to be a perversion, with transsexualism classified as a form of insanity. Richards named her female persona "Renée", which is French for "reborn". Her struggle with gender identity created sexual confusion, depression, and suicidal tendencies. She began seeing Dr. C...
In 1976, Richards's gender reassignment was outed by local TV anchor Richard Carlson, the father of Tucker Carlson. Subsequently, the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and the United States Open Committee (USOC) required all female competitors to verify their sex with a Barr body test of their chromosome...
After moving to California, Richards played in regional competitions for her local club, the John Wayne Tennis Club, under the name Renée Clark. In the summer of 1976 she entered the La Jolla Tennis Tournament Championships, where she crushed the competition, and her unique left hand serve was recognized by Bob Perry, a tour player from UCLA. Her l...
After four years of playing tennis, she decided to return to her medical practice, which she moved to Park Avenue in New York. She then became the surgeon director of ophthalmology and head of the eye-muscle clinic at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. In addition she served on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology ...
In 1983, Richards published an autobiography, Second Serve, and in 2007, a second, No Way Renée: The Second Half of My Notorious Life, in which she expresses regret over the type of fame that came with her transgenderism, although she said in 2007 that she did not regret undergoing the sex reassignment process in itself. In 2021, Richards continued...
Renee Richards on glbtq.comSecond Serve at IMDb9 giu 2024 · Prima di diventare una delle più note campionesse di tennis trans della storia, Renée Richards per molti fu uno scandalo e un'impostora: "Ero un'immorale, dovevo scusarmi".
3 lug 2020 · Renée Richards è stata la prima atleta transgender nella storia dello sport professionistico. A distanza di oltre quarant’anni il dibattito su questo argomento nel mondo dello...
- Roberto Ferri
25 giu 2015 · When tennis player Renee Richards won the right to compete as a woman in the 1977 US Open it was a landmark ruling for US transgender rights.
31 mar 2021 · Richards found a home in women’s tennis, playing the game that had saved her so many times before. Now 83, Richards lives in upstate New York, far from the spotlight.
28 giu 2019 · Long before Caitlyn Jenner, Renée Richards raised questions of gender identity by suing to play at the 1977 U.S. Open after undergoing sex-reassignment surgery.
