Renée Richards - Wikipedia
WEBRenée Richards (born August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who competed on the professional circuit 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.
LGBT+ History Month: Renee Richards' journey from tennis …
WEBFeb 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.
Dr. Renée Richards: a GQ+A with a Trans Icon | GQ
WEBMay 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...
'The Second Half of My Life' - NPR
WEBFeb 8, 2007 · Renee Richards was born and lived the first 40 years of her life as Richard Raskind. In a new book, she describes the complicated realities of her transformative experience,...
Tennis: Trans hero Renee Richards won her battle to compete - Yahoo Sports
WEBMar 28, 2021 · 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 — transgender...
Decades later, Renée Richards' breakthrough is as important …
WEBMar 31, 2021 · Soon after, as Dr. Renée Richards, she moved from New York to Newport Beach, CA, to start a new life. But there was one thing she couldn’t leave behind: her conspicuous skill at tennis. After...
Renée Richards: Where is tennis' transgender pioneer now?
WEBJun 28, 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....
Reece Richards: Police probe actor's mistaken pepper-spray arrest
WEB5 days ago · Mr Richards has made a formal complaint to the police and the police watchdog. The mistaken arrest of an actor who says he was pepper-sprayed, kicked and thrown to the ground by officers in west ...
Actor Reece Richards claims police pepper sprayed him as he …
WEB4 days ago · An actor has claimed he was the victim of "police misconduct" after allegedly being pepper sprayed in an "unlawful arrest". Reece Richards, who appeared in the hit Netflix series Sex Education and ...
Reece Richards: Sex Education actor's arrest to be investigated
WEB4 days ago · Victoria Cook. BBC News. 18 September 2024. The wrongful arrest of Sex Education actor Reece Richards by Metropolitan Police officers using pepper spray in west London is to be investigated by a ...