PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Sex Verification In Sports, Y Chromosome, Vo2 Max

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS304
• Professor: Sean Ryan

Document Summary

Feb 25 gender verification: ewa klobukowska had one too many chromosomes to be a woman, we think sex should be a certain way. This is social and people get sex tested because it is social. On the body (1966 1968: external genitalia, naked parades. In chromosomes (1968 1992: naked parades were demeaning and not accurate enough, you were either one or the other (ex. Binary logic): xx = female; xy = male. Focused on one particular region of the y chromosome: asked women to prove that they weren"t male instead of prove they were female. Back to the body suspicion based testing (2000 2011) Hormone levels, specifically testosterone (2011 on) shifts the emphasis from whether you are a woman to whether hormone levels cause an unfair advantage. Women, men, trannys: why all the testing ? this is due to fair play mentalities. Fair play and advantage thesis motivates testing: thats why males aren"t tested.