New from Embedded. Who gets to compete as a woman? This question came up in ugly form at the Paris Olympics,

but it's not new. If she runs like a man and talks like a man, is she a man?

Here about the long history of sex testing women athletes on Tested.

A new series from CBC and NPR's Embedded Podcast.

Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch,

the show about Race and Identity from NPR.

I'm B.A. Parker. Like a lot of you, I've been watching

some Olympics these past couple of weeks. I've been in awe of performances like

Brazil's Hebecca Andragi, and then inspired to see

Simone Biles and Jordan Childs bowing down to her on an all-black podium.

I love watching breaking, not break dancing, debut as an Olympic event. And you know I

also found myself perplexed. Like wait, trampoline is a sport? No disrespect to the

trampoline community. But then there's the cohort of athletes who faced scrutiny, attacks, and ridicule for not fitting the right definitions of quote unquote womanhood.

We've seen this may be most prominently for Boxer

Lynn Yuting of Taiwan and Algerian Boxer Eiman Kaleef. The controversy arose

out of their disqualification last year during boxing's world championship.

The International Boxing Association claims that they failed gender tests and basically that they aren't female.

This was pounced on by a lively anti-trans apparatus.

JK Rolling, former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk all chimed in.

These women are not trans.

Not that it would be okay to attack them if they were.

But in this case, their bodies didn't meet the standard of an opaque test that's been disavowed by the International Olympic Committee.

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