World Athletics is indeed going back to mandatory sex testing.
In unsurprising, but still pretty unfortunate news: Yesterday, World Athletics announced that it would indeed be bringing back genetic sex testing for all...
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of Caster Semenya. What does that actually mean?
The European Court of Human Rights building Today, the European Court of Human Rights issued their ruling in Caster Semenya's case and found in favor of...
New IOC President, Christine and Beatrice compete, and a note on statistics
In this newsletter: We have a new IOC president: Kirsty Coventry. What does that mean for athletes with sex variations? Beatrice Masilingi competed in the...
World Athletics wants to go back to mandatory sex testing
This is not the news I was hoping to share with you all, but here we are. Yesterday, World Athletics released a new set of recommendations surrounding the...
TESTED: Help the show win some awards, and other updates
Hello there! A bunch of bits and bobs on this edition of the Tested newsletter, starting with a very self indulgent ask: Tested is nominated for three...
TESTED: The Onion, or, Powers of Ten (Tested's Version)
Have you ever seen the Powers of Ten video1? To me, it is iconic, but I've recently learned that not everybody is familiar with it. I can't remember the...
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TESTED: Updates on Khelif and Mboma and a confusing new(ish) UN report
Look at the nice flowers the CBC team got me for official Radio Play Day! Starting October 18th, a shortened version of Tested is hitting the airwaves in...
TESTED: All The Small Things (We Cut From The Show)
This is where I work from, in case you were curious. Before we get to the fun part of this newsletter, I just wanted to answer a question I’ve gotten from a...
TESTED: Does sex testing violate privacy laws?
Image via Rob Sinclair, Flickr On Tested, you heard about several cases brought before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the past few years by...
TESTED: What can we learn from the Paralympics about the future of sports?
Wheelchair fencing! Image via Wikimedia Commons. The Paralympics just ended, and if you're didn't watch you missed out on some really amazing sporting...
TESTED: Nature Analogies, Helpful or Harmful?
A bluehead wrasse Thalassoma bifasciatum. Photo by Kevin Bryant. The animal world is full of absolutely bizarre and eye opening configurations. There are...
TESTED: Citational chains and claims of African intersex with Amanda Lock Swarr
Sometimes, tracking down academic citations is like taking apart a maddening set of nesting dolls. Over ten years ago (around 2012) when I first started...
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TESTED: Resisting Gender Verification from the Inside (aka what Jake Elsas did on his summer vacation)
Over the course of reporting Tested, we went down a lot of rabbit holes. Not all of them made the final cut. At one point we thought we might spend a whole...
TESTED: How transphobia has changed sex testing conversations
A quick content note: I'm going to discuss transphobia in this newsletter, and in doing so I'm going to directly quote some examples of transphobic things...
TESTED: Boxing updates and final thoughts from Paris
My view from my Stade de France seats. In today's newsletter:Some small updates on Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting.An excerpt from a piece I wrote for Defector...
TESTED: What is going on with boxing at the Olympics?
Hello from Paris, friends. I was meant to be on vacation, a nice little break from pulling twelve hour days for the last six months to make Tested happen....
TESTED EPISODE SIX: LUMPERS AND SPLITTERS
A Northern Flicker, photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS Episode Six: Lumpers and Splitters Christine and Max are some of the most recent female athletes in this...
TESTED EPISODE FIVE: UNFAIR ADVANTAGE?
Finnish skier Eero Mäntyranta (1937–2013) at Innsbruck Olympic Games 1964. Mäntyranta had a mutation in the EPOR gene giving him naturally elevated blood...
TESTED EPISODE FOUR: RUNNING IN CIRCLES
This is what the main building of the Court of Arbitration for Sport looks like. Episode Four: Running In Circles In 2009, South African sprinter Caster...
TESTED EPISODE THREE: CARD CARRYING FEMALES
Femininity certificates changed in layout and size over time. Here’s Maria’s from 1983. Episode Three: Card Carrying Females We meet Kenyan sprinter Maximila...