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Caster Semenya Takes Gender Rule Challenge to Sports Court - News18
▻https://www.news18.com/news/sports/caster-semenya-takes-gender-rule-challenge-to-sports-court-2039837.html

Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya of South Africa goes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday to challenge proposed rules that would force her to lower her testosterone levels.

[La position de l’International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) :]

to preserve fair competition in the female category, it is necessary to require DSD athletes to reduce their testosterone down to female levels before they compete at international level.

#sexisme #sport #compétition

Petition — We urge the IAAF to let Dutee Chand run. All female athletes should be allowed to participate in sport, regardless of their inherent physical traits or gender presentation
▻https://www.change.org/p/the-international-association-of-athletics-federations-iaaf-council-we-urge-

▻https://change-production.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/4/lp/vf/KclPvfqfjNDjhUm-556x313-noPad.jpg?1410204509

#femmes #sport #discrimination

cf les papiers déjà référencés ici, notamment ceux de Katrina Karkazis:
►http://seenthis.net/messages/76670
►http://seenthis.net/messages/251683
►http://seenthis.net/messages/258137

Sex, health, and athletes | BMJ
▻http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2926?ijkey=MxmXHpwfhnnCN2O&keytype=ref

Recent policy introduced by the International Olympic Committee to regulate hyperandrogenism in female athletes could lead to unnecessary treatment and may be unethical, argue Rebecca Jordan-Young, Peter Sönksen, and Katrina Karkazis

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Do the new policies undermine ethical care?

Approaching hyperandrogenism as a sports problem raises ethical concerns about designating possibly benign physical variation as “unhealthy,” resulting in potentially unnecessary medicosurgical intervention and possible neglect of the long term consequences of interventions.

key messages

– New policies require women athletes known or suspected to have hyperandrogenism to lower testosterone in order to compete
– The regulations’ aim of lowering testosterone regardless of athletes’ health, symptoms, and fertility goals conflicts with the medical approach to hyperandrogenism
– Four young women athletes have had medically unnecessary gonadectomy to comply with the policies
– Sports policies regulating hyperandrogenism in women athletes are not in keeping with best ethical practice

#cancer #femmes #sport #santé #réglementation #spectacle

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