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Bookmark or Share- Trans pioneer and eye surgeon | Where They Are Now - Yale Alumni MagazineWhen Dr. Renée Richards ’55 attended an all-male Yale, she was captain of the Yale men’s tennis team. Her later attempt to quietly begin living life as a woman was derailed when the lethal lefty serve of the former Richard Raskind was recognized.
- Transgender athlete Renée Richards barred from U.S. OpenOn August 27, 1976, the United States Tennis Association bars transgender athlete Renée Richards from competing in the U.S. Open as a woman, stating she must pass a chromosomal test. Richards...
- Tennis's reluctant transgender pioneer - BBC NewsWhen 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.
- Former tennis star Renée Richards, 80, reflects on life as ‘transexual ...More than three decades after putting down her tennis racket, Renee Richards poses for a portrait on the front porch of her home in Carmel, New York.
- Renée Richards - WikipediaRenée 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 medical affirmation, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open.
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