International sport organizations must stop ignoring athletes’ data protection rights when regulating sport, including eligibility in the women’s category
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The IOC’s new policy mandating genetic sex testing is scientifically flawed, ethically problematic and legally questionable.
The controversy over female athletes being tested for testosterone levels is not just a contested scientific issue but also one of human rights.
Mandatory sex testing at the Olympics might have stopped in the 1990s, but the policing of high performance female athletes’ bodies is still ongoing.
The Olympic Games are a theatre — sometimes farce, sometimes tragedy, reality TV, morality play or soap opera — where geopolitical, social and technological dramas are played out.
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Adjunct Lecturer in Sports Law, University of Toronto
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Professor of Health Sciences, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba
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JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Professor of Bioethics and Sports Integrity & Ethics, KU Leuven