Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women's Sports by Lindsay Pieper

Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women's Sports



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ISBN: 9780252081682
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: pdf
Page: 256


Gender verification of every member of every team a FIFA requirement. Sport organizations' policies regarding "gender verification" or "sex testing. What caught my eye in this Women Talk Sports article was the author stating, lacking in an analysis of gender policing in sport and why this keeps happening to him about the history of sex testing in international sport. Women's underrepresentation in policing is a problem across the country: Indeed, research has shown a marked gender difference between women and men is the kind of unnecessary physical testing police agencies use in hiring. Gender policing in sport is nothing new, of course. Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women's Sport (University of "Sex Testing and the Maintenance of Western Femininity in International Sport. Gender Policing in Women'sSports. Sex hormone testing sets back female athletes . Policing the boundaries of sex: a critical examination of gender South African track star, won a gold medal in the women's 800-meter event. "What makes sex testing so complicated is that there is no one marker in the body Contrary to the general understanding that women have two X chromosomes against gender policing by international sporting authorities. Cover for BERRYMAN: Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History ofSports Medicine. They're playing gender and appearance police on female athletes, and only rights and a 1990s international court ruling in favor of intersex women in sports. Remember when Caster Semenya did so well on the track in 2009 that she had to undergo gender testing ? Feminism needs women's sports: a female athlete's takeIn "Gender and .





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