„Eingriffe unter dem Deckmantel der Fairness“: Der Leichtathletik-Weltverband verpflichtet alle Frauen, ihr biologisches Geschlecht überprüfen zu lassen. Die Bioethikerin @karkazis.bsky.social
hält dies für Ausgrenzung – und benennt Wege für den Umgang mit intersexuellen Athletinnen.

Genetic sex testing in sport violates MANY laws - bioethics, genetic non-discrimination, data privacy, etc. - in MANY jurisdictions. These tests have no medical purpose, functioning instead as a discriminatory contractual condition, thus vitiating consent and misusing protected data. Read more:

World Athletics and World Boxing have instituted genetic sex testing as a precondition for competing in the women’s category.

SONE ERIKAINEN, KATRINA KARKAZIS (@karkazis.bsky.social‬) & MICHELE KRECH (@michelekrech.bsky.social‬) on the many legal pitfalls.

verfassungsblog.de/genetic-sex-...

World Athletics’ SRY DNA test mandate—tests due 1 Sep—breaches genetic-testing safeguards in many jurisdictions by forcing non-medical testing, tying eligibility to genes, coercing consent, and handing DNA to private bodies—inviting national challenges. Analysis: verfassungsblog.de/genetic-sex-...

We are back to 1967 when the IAAF first used cheek swabs for "sex determination." They later rejected swabs for being unscientific --chromosomes alone do not indicate sex--and an invasion of privacy. Now they've decided to revive this horrible practice and relive the worst parts of its history.

Last was "Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography" by Rebecca Jordan-Young & @karkazis.bsky.social. This book does double duty - accounting for the biological effects of t and the heavily biased research and discussion in the area. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (4/4)

This Thursday! Impt panel on the international regulation of women in sports

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

World Athletics said Mon. it plans to go back to mandatory sex testing for ALL women, ban all trans women and DSD athletes, and return to requiring cheek swabs, a version of chromosome testing discontinued in the 1990s for being unscientific, harmful & invasive. www.reuters.com/sports/athle...

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