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Why imposing the gender binary on athletes is a violation of human rights

Started by Shana A, January 23, 2010, 09:22:06 AM

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Shana A

Why imposing the gender binary on athletes is a violation of human rights
Posted by OII: http://www.intersexualite.org/ at 8:17 AM

http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-imposing-gender-binary-on-athletes.html

News that the International Olympic Committee is considering mandatory gender testing and therapies to 'treat' intersex athletes is quickly starting to get some attention.

Andrea James has an excellent article in BoingBoing about Caster Semenya and the apartheid of sex—a term attributed to transhumanist Martine Rothblatt. James correctly points out that Semenya is being subjected to the latest "sex science" in order to fit her into our socially imposed gender binary, so that "the apartheid of sex can be upheld within the sporting tradition.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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tekla

Would not eliminating the 'gender binary' in sports pretty much turn them back to what they once were, a boys club?
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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