Tested podcast
2024-08-19 17:49:30.22265+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I forget which FB friend turned me on to this, but it is fantastic. It's a look at what gender means in sport, and how we demand that women use modern medicine to conform to very narrow definitions of female in order to compete, while those competing as men get every advantage of their biology.
I'm assuming that they're gonna get into some of the examples of when women's categories were created as soon as women started beating men, but haven't gotten there yet. Anyway, recommended.
Introducing Tested from NPR and CBC
Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women's category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. As the Olympics approach, they face hard choices: take drugs to lower their natural testosterone levels, give up their sport entirely, or fight. To understand how we got here, we trace the surprising, 100-year history of sex testing.