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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.
Mar 31, 2021 · Over three harrowing months, the crumbling metropolis had been rocked by terrorizing riots, a chaotic blackout and the frantic search for a serial killer. As autumn mercifully approached, though ...
Jun 28, 2019 · She's a Transgender Pioneer, But Renée Richards Prefers to Stay Out of the Spotlight. Long before Caitlyn Jenner, Renée Richards raised questions of gender identity by suing to play at the...
Feb 26, 2021 · As part of LGBT+ History Month, BBC Sport explores the story of transgender tennis player Renee Richards, who won a legal challenge to play at the 1977 US Open as a woman.
Jun 25, 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.
May 26, 2015 · Dr. Renée Richards has lived forty years of her life as a woman and forty years as a man. It was a warm August day in 1975 when Dr. Richard Raskind walked into a New York City hospital for...
Mar 28, 2021 · WHM. There is no athlete whose fight for equal treatment is more relevant right now than Renée Richards. Assigned male at birth in 1934, Richards became the first — and thus far only —...
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