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the following program is made possible in part by grants from public television stations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [Music] good evening Jim Lehrer is off tonight Dr Renee Richards the 42 year old transsexual tennis player moves into the second round of the tennis week tournament at South Orange New Jersey tomorrow but she's no nearer gaining admission to the U.S tennis open at Forest Hills which begins next week Forest Hills officials have demanded that she take a chromosome test like those required of women athletes in the Olympics to prove their femininity Dr Richards has refused to take the test and argues that her rights are being trampled on at the same time she's not unhappy that the so-called sex change tennis case has focused more public attention on transsexuals than anything since the notoriety over Christine Jorgensen in the 1950s Dr Richards lived as a man until last year he was a successful ophthalmologist in New York and a ranked amateur tennis next reassignment operation a year ago Dr Richards has been living in California and playing tennis as a that was fine until she decided to enter Forest Hills the major tennis tournament in this country tonight the problems of being a transsexual athlete and more widely the growing recognition of transsexualism and the problems of Acceptance in American society Dr Richards you want to play at Forest Hills why are you unwilling to accept a chromosome test I'm unwilling to accept it because I don't think it's a good test for sexuality sexuality is many more things than what your sex chromosome pattern is socially and legally your sex chromosome pattern has nothing to do with it I am a woman my gynecologist will attest to that my documents all say that I am a woman and I live as one to be asked to take the test that Forest Hills wants me to take seems unfair uh they are only going to pass those women who have a specific type of chromosome pattern and that would eliminate most likely me and it might eliminate some other women with abnormal chromosome patterns too yeah but you um you being a doctor yourself if you haven't already had a chromosome test as a result of your recent experience you might suppose that your chromosomes would turn out to have the pattern of a man's might they not they might and I think the probabilities are that they would show the male XY pattern but I don't think that it is a fair test for sex regardless of what the chromosome pattern might show wouldn't you in fact and I guess this is what is at the heart of this controversy wouldn't you unless it's just pure Prejudice which we could come to in a minute but wouldn't you in fact having been born with the body of a man and played tennis as a man and having the muscular structure of a man have...