Mar 25, 2025
Female athletes will soon have to undergo a one-time genetic test to compete in women's events, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said
AHHHHH THAT IS NOT HOW YOU SCIENCE...let alone deal with gender categories in sports. UGH.
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Female athletes will soon have to undergo a one-time genetic test to compete in women's events, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said
AHHHHH THAT IS NOT HOW YOU SCIENCE...let alone deal with gender categories in sports. UGH.
it's not about people going "oh this athlete is too strong/fast/good to be a woman", it's about racism. these people are NOT actually questioning if a woman can be as fast/strong/[something] as some black or brown athlete is, they are throwing tantrums because their white asses can't deal with not being better than a person of colour. I don't see much point in pretending it's actually about these people questioning other women's womanhood because "oh, a woman can't be this strong/fast/?" because doing so distracts from the fact that this is about an issue of systemic racism.
I'm gonna be honest here, I did not know the Olympics did 'gender testing' and. What the actual fuck? I tried to find a reliable source and reading about it is ridiculous. A woman who is 'too manly' (basically) is disqualify for existing? But men don't face the same gender scrutiny? Anywho I'm just in shock and outrage.
Caster Semenya won the eight-hundred-meter title in the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Few hours after, Caster was at the center of a harsh contestation on gender. The International Association of Athletics Federations started an investigation, which was not respectful of her privacy. Caster's case highlights the need for an improvement in the awareness of genetic counseling principles amongst professionals, the public and various stakeholders. We critically examine the historical steps of gender verification in the Olympics, the violation of genetic counseling principles in Caster's case and outline some reflections on the complexity of the genetics of Disorders of sex development (DSD). Variability in both genotypes and phenotypes in DSD may not allow any etiological or functional classification at this point in time that could permit uncontroversial gender verification for fairer sport participation. We strongly suggest revisiting the pertinence of gender verification, and the process whereby this is done. Ambroise Wonkam, Raj Ramesar, Karen Fieggen December 2010Journal of Genetic Counseling 19(6):545-8 DOI:10.1007/s10897-010-9320-2
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