Why Olympic Gender Testing Is Women-Only

Unladylike

Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From "peek n pokes" to chromosome testing, the Olympics has a questionable history of body policing female athletes. Tested host Rose Eveleth reveals the past, present and future of gender verification policies in elite sports, who they affect and what it has to do with fairness. Highlights include: Caster Semenya's swagger, Cold War paranoia, intersex identity, DDS status (Differences of Sexual Development) and misogynoir. Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop merch Advertise with Multitude Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The story is really about something that I think is really important and it has nothing to do with sports.
0:07.0	It's about what do you do when you learn that something you thought was true in a way you thought that the world was
0:15.2	organized is not true. I'm Lady Life.
0:25.0	A Lady Like.
0:27.0	A Lady Like, a Lady Like a Lady Like a Lady Like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:34.0	I've had a love.
0:37.0	This is un lady like, I'm Kristen.
0:44.1	Happy 2024 Summer Olympics to one and all the games are upon us?
0:53.5	us. us. And wow, do we have a lot of un-lady-like Olympic history to cover this episode?
1:12.1	But like you just heard from today's guest, Rose Eveleth, the story that they are
1:17.8	here to unfurl for us is ultimately not about sports.
1:25.0	There is this idea that is so pervasive that like
1:28.0	sports are a male domain
1:31.0	and that any woman who does things in sports must have something either wrong with
1:37.1	her or must secretly be a man or like there's something happening here. Rose is a journalist, and they've spent the past five years
1:46.2	reporting out that idea.
1:49.2	Where it comes from, why it's so pervasive, how it's baked into elite competitions like the Olympics,
1:57.8	particularly in track and field events.
2:01.8	You can hear all about it in their incredible new podcast documentary
2:05.8	series, Tested, which you should absolutely go listen to right after you listen to Rose
2:12.4	on on Lady Lake.
2:14.2	They also in the 30s in particular believed that if women competed in sports they would be
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