When It Comes to International Competition, Let's Test Everyone

[screamingintune]

When it comes to International Competition, singling out women for gender testing is sexist. We propose a radical solution: test everyone.

by Julie DiCaro

Comments

[anguisel]

The one thing that always, ALWAYS bothers me with this shit is that if they followed this to a tee with genetics and let a woman with high testosterone compete with men there would be so so so much of a shitstorm if they even got into the top 5, hell even the top 100 against men. I could just imagine the screaming/flailing/how dare she if they won a medal.

[ponyboy]

lol uh well the testing has become very racist as well 👀 . there was a good article about Stella Walsh, an intersex athlete that came out

[tanglespiders]

Yeah, I was looking for a mention of racism; the Stella Walsh article brings up that only WOC have faced scrutiny or bans because of the newest gender-testing standards. It's a good (long) read: https://blog.longreads.com/2016/08/18/the-life-and-murder-of-stella-walsh-intersex-olympic-champion/ Spoilers: gender testing was the brainchild of Nazi-sympathizer.

Semenya's case is especially frustrating because she was screwed out of a gold medal in 2012 by a Russian athlete who was known to have biological passport irregularities before the race and is now under recommendation to lose her medal. Real clear priorities, there.