New Sex Testing Policies Significantly Flawed

BCRW Advisory Board member Rebecca Jordan-Young has co-authored a new report on sex testing policies of the International Olympic Committee, “Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes.”

From the abstract:

In May 2011, more than a decade after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandoned sex testing, they devised new policies in response to the IAAF’s treatment of Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose sex was challenged because of her spectacular win and powerful physique that fueled an international frenzy questioning her sex and legitimacy to compete as female. […] We find the policies in each of these domains significantly flawed and therefore argue they should be withdrawn.

Jordan-Young and Stanford bioethicist Katrina Karkazis have an article in this week’s New York Times discussing the International Olympic Committee’s problematic new approach – “You Say You’re a Woman? That Should Be Enough.” Read more at Barnard.edu.

Do you think sports should continue to be segregated by gender or sex? If so, what do you think the criteria should be for determining who qualifies?

Related:

• Rebecca Jordan-Young spoke on the impact of sex testing policies at a BCRW Salon in March
• ‘Sex’ is Not a Mechanism: Making “Sex-Specific Medicine” More Scientific, with Rebecca Jordan-Young

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