Inez Turner [SEP] sex or gender
Inez Turner
Inez Turner (born January 3, 1972 in Trelawny Parish) is a retired female sprinter and middle-distance runner from Jamaica.
Career.
In 1991 she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1991 CARIFTA Games. She won the 800m gold at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Together with Lorraine Fenton, Deon Hemmings and Sandie Richards she claimed a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics.
Personal bests.
- (2007) “Respectively a Man and a Woman”: The Failures of the Gender Recognition Act 2005 and the Civil Partnership Act 2005, Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review , Vol.8, no.1, Spring
- (with Turner, L.) (2007)‘Sex changes’? Paradigm shifts in ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ following the Gender Recognition Act?’, Sociological Research Online, Volume 12, Issue 1, January
- (2006) 'The opposite of sex is politics – the UK Gender Recognition Act