Gender Testing in the International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (ICO) has been conducting sex tests since 1968, with a hiatus from 1990 to 2009, to determine the biological sex of self-identified female athletes. There have been three iterations of these tests: visual examinations, chromosomal tests, and hormonal tests. This research seeks to understand the justifications used in favor a particular test when it came to determine which would be best and develop a policy based on that decision. To do so, I will first work on archives which hold documents that pertain to the genesis of endocrinology. This will help understand the state, and genealogy, of the knowledge on which these decisions were founded. The focus in this part of the research will be on testosterone, its’ discovery, and the treatments and experiments it was used in in the early 20th century. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher McAll

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Partner:

Technische Universität Berlin (Institut fur Mathematik)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Life Sciences (not health); Other

University:

Université de Montréal

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