Olympic Sex Verification - You Say You’re a Woman ? That Should Be Enough

Fil 18/06/2012

Olympic Sex Verification - You Say You’re a Woman? That Should Be Enough - Rebecca Jordan-Young & Katrina Karkazis
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/sports/olympics/olympic-sex-verification-you-say-youre-a-woman-that-should-be-enough.html

Unlike in doping cases, women with hyperandrogenism have not cheated. There is no reason to disqualify women whose bodies produce any of the complex ingredients that add up to athleticism, be they superb vision, big lungs, flexibility, long legs or testosterone.
The obsessive focus on sex has done enough harm.

#sport #sexe #ségrégation #mixte #JO

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Allergie @allergie CC BY-SA 18/06/2012

C’est le problème de créer des catégories : quels en sont les critères ? Sont ils vraiment tous indiscutables ?

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Fil @fil 3/07/2012

Un nouveau papier des mêmes auteures, dans le Guardian :
The IOC’s superwoman complex: how flawed sex-testing discriminates | Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/02/ioc-supwerwoman-complex-flawed-sextesting-policy
A serious look at who has been targeted for “suspicion-based” monitoring of sex shows that it isn’t extraordinary performance that makes these women suspect – it’s vulnerability to charges that they “look masculine”.

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