Sarah Gronert
Erklärung von Sarah Gronert
28.07.2008 - 10:45 von Frank Hofen Pressemitteilung des WTV
Seit geraumer Zeit werden Gerüchte über die 22-jährige Tennisspielerin Sarah Gronert kolportiert, die menschenverletzend sind. Sie gehen bis in die intimste Persönlichkeit der aktuellen Tennis-Westfalenmeisterin, die auf Grund dieses verabscheuungswürdigen Geredes eine sportliche Auszeit genommen hat und im Urlaub weilt. Nach einer Bedenkzeit und nach Rücksprachen mit ihr nahestehenden Personen sowie dem Deutschen Tennis Bund (DTB) und dem Westfälischen Tennis-Verband (WTV) hat sich Sarah Gronert entschieden, dazu Stellung zu beziehen. Letztlich geht es ihr darum, weiteren Verleumdungen und Gerüchten jedwede Grundlage zu entziehen. Demzufolge wird die nachstehende öffentliche persönliche Erklärung abgegeben:
Persönliche Erklärung
Aus gegebenem Anlass und um den an Rufmord grenzenden Gerüchten um das Geschlecht von Sarah Gronert Einhalt zu gebieten, wird hiermit folgendes erklärt:
1. Sarah Gronert ist nachweislich der Geburtsurkunde des Standesamtes Linnich (Kreis Düren) weiblichen Geschlechts.
2. Gemäß einer gynäkologischen Untersuchung vom 17. Juli 2008 an der Frauenklinik des Universitätsklinikums Aachen durch Prof. Dr. Joseph Neulen (Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Reproduktionsmedizin) ist Sarah Gronert eindeutig weiblichen Geschlechts; auch die endokrinologische Untersuchung am Universitätsklinikum Aachen ergibt das Ergebnis eines weiblichen Normalbefundes.
3. Sarah Gronert hat in ihrem Leben nie wissentlich Dopingmittel zu sich genommen oder sich verabreichen lassen.
4. Seitens der internationalen Tennisorganisation WTA bestehen gegen Sarah Gronert keinerlei Restriktionen hinsichtlich der Zulassung zu Turnieren. Auch hat es zu keinem Zeitpunkt irgendwelche Sanktionen seitens der WTA gegeben.
5. Gegen Personen, Vereine, Institutionen etc., die weiterhin gegenteilige Gerüchte verbreiten, werden mit Verlautbarung dieser Erklärung umgehend juristische Schritte eingeleitet.
52146 Würselen (Kreis Aachen), 27. Juli 2008
gez. Sarah Gronert
gez. Prof. Dr. Peter Westerheide (Sportwart Ruderclub Hamm)
gez. Ute Strakerjahn (Vizepräsidentin Westfälischer Tennis-Verband e.V.)
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27. MÄRZ 2009
Sarah Gronert passes gender test to play on women’s circuit
A female professional player who was born with both male and female genitalia has had her case
reviewed by a Women’s Tennis Association Tour ‘medical delegate’ to make sure that she
satisfied all the requirements to compete in the women’s game.
By Mark Hodgkinson
Last Updated: 9:36PM GMT 27 Mar 2009
The delegate concluded that there was “sufficient independent and verifiable evidence” to show that Sarah Gronert, a
22-year-old German, was eligible to play women’s tennis.
Under the WTA Tour’s rules, if there is “any question as to the eligibility” of a player, the WTA has the right to “require a
player to submit to gender verification to determine sexual status”.
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In addition, Gronert has also had to deal with being the subject of some cruel, vindictive comments. Gronert should be
applauded for having had the courage to carry on playing, having rightly decided that she was going to make the most
of her tennis talent, and this season she has made good progress with her career, winning two titles on the International
Tennis Federation’s (ITF) women’s circuit, which is below the main WTA Tour.
Since the end of last season, her ranking has improved by almost 200 places, and this week she is at a career high of
No 555 in the world.
The cruel comments have continued, though, as her title-winning tennis in Israel this month, for the second of this year’s
tournament victories, prompted an opponent’s coach to question whether she should have been allowed to play.
“There is no girl who can hit serves like that, not even Venus Williams,” said the coach, Schlomo Tzoref.
The WTA Tour confirmed yesterday that they had reviewed Gronert’s case.
“The Tour’s gender determination rule is similar to the International Olympic Committee’s rule, and under this rule,
Gronert is allowed to play Tour events as a female,” a spokesman said.
“The Tour’s medical delegate reviewed Miss Gronert’s case and determined that she is eligible to compete on the Tour.
“The medical delegate determined that sufficient independent and verifiable evidence existed to conclude that Miss
Gronert had satisfied all of the requirements of the tour rules in order to be eligible to participate in tour events.”
Understandably, the details of the case, such as the player’s medical records, will remain strictly confidential. The
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WTA’s spokesman said that they were “not directly aware” of any complaints from other players or coaches about
Gronert.
A spokeswoman for the ITF said that the governing body had never received any formal inquiry or complaint about
Gronert’s eligibility.
“Sarah Gronert is legally and biologically a woman,” the spokeswoman said, “and as such perfectly entitled to compete
in ITF Pro Circuit events and, at some point if her ranking warrants it, in WTA Tour events.”
Had Gronert failed to submit to ‘gender verification’, the WTA could have immediately suspended her from competing.
Comparisons should certainly not be made with the most famous gender story in tennis history, that of Richard Raskind,
an American man, who underwent a sex-change operation to become a woman, Renee Richards.
The tennis authorities barred Richards from featuring on the women’s tour, but she subsequently sued and the United
States Supreme Court ruled that she had the legal right to play, leading to her appearance at the 1977 US Open. A
year later, Richards made the quarter-finals of the US Open.
Richards took issue with anyone who suggested that she had the operation for the main purpose of furthering her tennis
career. Richards went on to coach Martina Navratilova.
Gronert’s situation is clearly different from what happened to Richards, tennis’s first transsexual. Gronert was born
female, has remained a female, and has been legally certified as a female.
Following the ‘gender verification’ ruling, she is eligible to play in whatever tournaments her rankings, or any wild cards,
allow.
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