Given the complexity of biological sex, does it make sense to continue subjecting women athletes to gender testing?
Taken to it’s logical extreme, which if money is at stake it might be, this would mean that anyone could be female. Would you want a situation where female athletics is dominated, more than it already is, by “females” who have more male than female biology, or would this be a great step forward in revealing the “truth” that people are really “naturally” androgynous. — dick dworkin [Read dick dworkin’s other letters] Permalink Thursday, August 20, 2009 01:22 PM PDT Thanks for the clarity “Over at Feministing, Courtney reminds us that sex isn’t always binary, so attempts to find out whether Semenya is a “man” or a “woman” may prove futile.” So does that mean we can ignore all the entire feminist critique that all women — sorry, “women” — are subject to discrimination by virtue of being women in a male-dominated society? — Cossackathon [Read Cossackathon’s other letters] Permalink Thursday, August 20, 2009 01:24 PM PDT Jesus! Just test everyone for crying out loud! Some of the most go
