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Canadian Sports Ministry Turns “Blind Eye” to Gender Verification Testing at Vancouver Winter Olympics, violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Human Rights Laws.

Canadian Sports Ministry Turns “Blind Eye” to Gender VerificationTesting at Vancouver Winter Olympics, violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Human Rights Laws.

Canadian Sports Ministry Sport Canada, led by Director General Martin Boileau, knowingly turned a “blind eye” to gender testing of female athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.  Boileau, made an educated the choice to “COW TOW” and “OLD BOYS NETWORK” of the International Olympic Committee [IOC] not to rock the boat with IOC executives, of which they attempted to hide from the public knowing the scrutiny and impact that historically gender verification and gender policies has had on so many women over the last fifty years created and designed by Professor Arne Ljungqvist, IOC Medical Commission Chair designed to as “Tools of Oppression” designed by men to oppress women.

Bolieau, was leading up to the Vancouver games, was notified by several leading Canadian sports leaders and experts including the Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport [CCES] Canada’s anti-doping regulatory body and Canadian Olympic Committee [COC] that gender testing of women athletes would not take place in Vancouver, as it is a clear violation of Canada’s Human Rights Code, which ensures the safety and rights of all Canadians and those visiting Canada.  The CCES’s CEO Paul Melia took it one step further, writing a letter to the the IOC, specifically Arne Ljungqvist, saying we do not support gender verification of female athletes.

The CCES, was the doping control body for the games, as being the host country. Arne Ljungqvist, knowing Canada’s leadership role and stopping gender verification and gender polices, that are inaccurate, unethical and in the case of Ljungqvist, medical/policy fraud and brand abuse by Ljungqvist of which the facts and science and collaborated expertise indicates.  That in-fact, the IOC has been committing human rights violations towards women over the last 50 years. Of which this past October in Cologne Germany at the Play the Game Conference, Georg Facius of Denmark during his presentation with Ljungqvist present and Dr. Bruce Kidd of Canada as a third panelist said, “has only had catastrophic impact on female athletes”.

Facius asked Ljungqvist to step down from the IOC immediately, for the (50) years of incompetence and the gross impact this has had on women.  There very identities taken away from them. Moreover these  women that were virtually socially and physically raped because of his social and medical incompetence of the actual facts of around human physiology and gender.

Facius described it as; “The Major Medical Blunder of the 20th Century”

Leading world experts in bio-science now clearly stating with the science in hand as the IOC never did develop their polices on gender, only hypothothetical. “The science does not match the policies”.  In-fact what the IOC is doing is and has been doing  in-fact unethical, a fraud and are using these policies to gain access solely to women, “claiming them as unwell and wanting to support women’s health”, of which they do not offer to me.  It is a legal tactic to construe the issues to ensure continued access, and lesson their liability.

The women are healthy young women as high performance athletes (race horses), only to be “claimed” falsely unwell when they meet Arne  Ljungqvist and through policy (keeping the public and sport ignorant) justifying  these grotesques actions and – “RAPING THEM”.

As history has shown sadly the last 50 years, own has only led to catastrophic outcomes for individual women, and sadly, the IOC violating their own policies.  So very sad!

Boileau prior to new very clearly all this was going on. Prior to this, several Canadian sport leaders including myself, had correspondence and conference all with him, including Sport Canada president Dan Smith.  This ongoing pressure leading up to the games and with media awareness Sport Canada turned a “blind eye”.  Moreover when Ljungqvist [IOC] was told by Canadian leaders, that gender verification testing would not take place in Canada during the games, Ljungqvist [IOC] ignored Canada’s request and violated and disrespected Canadian law.  Four Vancouver hospitals, when Ljungqvist [IOC] tried to secure a testing location told him, “to get lost and this is not happening in our hospital and or in Canada.” Ljungqvist [IOC] still did not get the message, and bombastically pursued a location, with a Catholic hospital using “religion” as a tool to eventually solidify a clinic location to setup testing.

This could not be more unethical, let alone corrupt on so many levels.

Matthew Fedorek Ph.D now Science Director of the US Anti-Doping Agency [USADA] a pathology graduate from the University of British Columbia [UBC], and once employee of the CCES, setup ran and broke down the gender testing during the Vancouver games. What make this worse, Fedorek has NO expertise on gender let alone association and or academic writing. How insane is this….?  Again, men doing this to women. Sic.

Fedorek, certainly well aware of Canada’s as  well the CCES engagement over the last 8 years and most recently to prevent and stop these horrific practices and misleading, unethical and now noted by leading experts fraudulent by the IOC, which has only had “catastrophic outcomes” as noted by Bruce Kidd in Cologne this past October.

What is very clear, Sport Canada led by Martin Boileau and Matthew Fedorek, engaged in unethical and illegal practices of gender verification which by all extents of medical practices and knowledge by top experts if medical fraud, moreover a series of “tools of oppression” that only physically, socially and violates women.

In the case of the Vancouver Olympics, as I was asked personally by the Canadian Olympic Committee to help educate games “Mission Staff” team on these issues, as seen as an athlete and expert. I graciously declined the COC’s invitation to do so citing, “I can’t tell people how to be human.”

On December 22nd, 2011. We had a conference call with Martin Boileau, Dan Smith, David McCrindle (Sport Canada – policy), Rosemary Pitfield [CCES], myself  and John Dalla-Costa, one of of Canada’s leading ethics specialists.  John said to Boileau during the call; “With all the data collected this past year, to suggest not knowing is no longer a viable answer!”

Bolieau, ignored warning and concerns from IOC Women’s Executive Anita de Frantz, of which she spoke to me and to Sport Canada in fall of 2007, of which leading up to to this time, Canadian sport leaders led by the CCES including the COC, engaged with the IOC to stop these horrific practices and policies towards women.  Which just prior to that led to the social and physical raping of India 800m Santhi Soundarajan which she tried to commit suicide.

The IOC announced prior to the 2000 Sumer Olympics in Sydney Australia, they had discontinued gender testing of women.  This is not so, and is in-fact false.  Historically since 2000 and now 1012, led to more then 8 women being impacted, and the most horrific outcomes.  Boileau knows this but still he let it happen in Canada in Vancouver and still today in domestic policy.

Even though, the CCES and Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine [CASM] have clearly stated publicly and in academic review, as being unethical, false and illegal in Canada.

Still Boileau let it happen and continues today.

John’s comment made very clear to Boileau, and Sport Canada senior staff Smith and McCrindle of which Boileau only backtracked and had no answer when asked the hard questions during the  45min. conversation, knowing where we were going with this. Thus Sport Canada under Boileau’s leadership, of which he has been clearly educated, of which in-fact I have given several presentations in Hull to Sport Canada personally,  Boileau chose  to “COW TOWED to the IOC”, throwing to the wind, all he new and the collaborated information from experts from all over the world in-fact, knowing that women have been getting VIOLATED and RAPED under Arne Ljungqvist.

It has been brought to my attention from the Canadian Olympic Committee as well Sport Canada, the IOC was upset at Canada’s engagement and supporting the women’s ski jumping issue, citing “they were embarrassed”.

We award bad behavior…

Just recently and to make a point, at the 5th World Women’s conference in Las Angeles, IOC President Jacques Rogge made the opening presentation to delegates attending the conference, starting off with a 10 minute video of (34) high performance athletes to get delegates engaged. Of the (34) athletes in the video, (4) were women.  We can only assume, Rogge didn’t get the memo, “Women’s Conference Jacques!”

The IOC as corrupt as they are, seeing themselves above the law, international law and in this case, violated Canada’s Charter of Rights and Human Rights Laws.  Of which, Canada’s Sports Ministry turned a “blind eye” too, and intern did the very same thing to oblige the IOC when the rest of Canada’s experts, sport leaders and Vancouver hospitals said “NO”, and for very good reasons to say “NO”, to protect women from harmful and unlawful and fraudulent practices that have only RAPED, VIOLATED  AND HUMILIATED SO MANY WOMEN TO THEIR VERY CORE.

What makes this worse, a Canadian Ministry, Sport Canada made great attempts to hide  and oppress it from the public and media, knowing that these violations were being committed and the pressure out there to ensure this did not happen in Canada.  Sport Canada – the Canadian Government, chose to violate Canadian law to NOT upset the IOC and knowingly knowing making that distinct educated choice  - and that a women’s rights were being violated.

Young high performance women athletes around the world and women I compete with, see this as a direct threat to ALL women, and gender verification testing and gender policy put upon women, as “symbols” and “Tools of Oppression” designed by dated old men, who are well beyond their best before date, like Ljungqvist wanting to oppress female athletes which we do NOT do to men.  Women are forced socially to fit into a box, to which they cannot be women and be allowed to b strong bodied, let alone be the very best they can be as athletes.  Continuing to fight the stereotypes, and as the IOC has proven over and over again, if you fall outside of that A typical stereotype, we are “going to get you, humiliate and rape you to teach you a lesson.” – and because we have a policy [IOC] as noted by IOC Medical Commission President Patrick Schamasch, in a conference call September 18th 2006, with Canadian Sport leaders, from Sport Canada, the CCES and COC, when asked this – Schamasch abruptly responded when he admitted to not have done the science to support IOC gender policy and had been lying to the public and global sports system said, “I can do anything I want”.  Jaw dropping response, and leaving everyone dumb founded to hear coming out out the mouth of a leading IOC medical executive. STUNNING!

Suggesting by the IOC, very clearly “Not so much we feel we can, but we have a RIGHT to violate you.” MONSTERS!

But made very clear, if you have a “PENIS” you are good to go…. with NO boundaries and or barriers.

A Canadian Conservative Ministry (Sport Canada) has violated Canadian law. In-fact, when reviewed by lawyers, is of criminal consequences and succumbing to the “OLD BOYS CLUB” to serve personal interests, then to protect the rights of women under Canadian Law as stated under Human Rights Code of Canada.

Upon conclusion, with all the data and facts great effort was taken by Sport Canada, COC and VANOC, to oppress any knowledge of a gender verification testing centre in Vancouver, as fellow colleagues from several national sport, medical and academic institutions including the CCES over the last several years, have been key players to speaking out and challenging the IOC which has led to so many catastrophic outcomes towards women. Sport Canada, the COC specifically have been in these presetations, meetings and conference calls with the IOC, there is NO EXCUSE!

Many efforts have been clearly made by sport leaders, medical, academics, journalists from around the world as well (4) Vancouver hospitals denying the IOC access and clearly stating this is not going to happen here or in Canada. Great steps were made to ensure this did NOT happen, and they knowingly chose to ignore the warning and the human rights violations that the IOC was already under scrutiny with the IAAF leading up to the game , thus choosing to violate Canada’s Human Rights Code to “COW TOW” and self-serve to the International Olympic Committee, knowingly the violations the IOC was and has been up against, that has unethically, violated and oppressed so many women and that these polices and and practices had NO basis of actual science, and has only led to solely “catastrophic outcomes of female athletes”. Sport Canada, COC and VANOC were prepared to role the dice when so many warning signs had been given, knowingly going outside of Canadian law, to impress the IOC. Just Sic!

Published March 18th, 2012

Frost Illustrated – Sports body to reject ‘I know it when I see it’ standard for women

Frost Illustrated
Sports body to reject ‘I know it when I see it’ standard for women

May 4th 2011

“The International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations have a new policy to deal with athletes whose sex development is unusual.

The bad news is that the new policy appears biased and sexist which, critics worry, could trickle down to school-based sports. Players will be tested for testosterone and women with high levels will be excluded from games while men will not.”

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Other Reference
NYTimes April 24th, 2011 – Redefining the Sexes in Unequal Terms
Prof. Alice Dreger, clinical medical humanities and bioethics.
Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

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Published April 4th, 2011

IOC Press Release – IOC addresses eligibility of female athletes with hyperandrogenism – Adopts the Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport Recommendations.

IOC Press Release – IOC addresses eligibility of female athletes with hyperandrogenism – Adopts the Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport (CAIS) Recommendations.

The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today confirmed the need to set up clear rules to determine the eligibility of female athletes with hperandrogenism in female competitions, starting with the Olympic Games in London next year.

“Important to Note: This statement by the IOC is a public omission that “gender testing” of female athletes was never needed. Many athletes in the last several years so physically and publicly violated (human rights/discrimination) by gender testing which proves nothing, could have been so simply dealt with as simply as a blood test within the anti-doping model.”

IOC Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport (CAIS) Recommendations:
For Full Document Release: “Click Here”

Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport (CAIS) Recommendations:
The Guiding Principles for Inclusion in Sport “Click Here”

An incredible moment (6) years of hard work and amazing support from experts around the world and support of Canadian Sport leaders made it possible.  We will never see one more athlete in modern sport history receive such harm by failed policy as it pertains to ones individual diversity and or identity.

Published April 5th, 2011

The Times of India – Hope to return Santhi her dignity: Worley

The Times of India -

Kristen Worley is a Canadian high performance track cyclist who has been speaking publicly on issues of gender discrimination and treatment of gender variant athletes.

She is also co-founder of Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport formed in 2009 to address the IOC Gender Policy. Worley’s activism recently ensured world sporting bodies lift the ban on South African runner Caster Semenya, who had to sit out for 11 months after the world champion’s gold medal was revoked as she failed ‘gender tests’.

Published – August 1st, 2010

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sport leaders request that random gender verification testing of female athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver be prohibited



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25, 2010

Sport leaders request that random gender verification testing of female athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver be prohibited

Toronto, Canada: The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport requests that the organizing committee of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games prohibit random gender verification testing of female athletes at the Games, in the best interest of all international female athletes.

“The statements from the IOC following its Gender Summit in Miami in January 2010 do not demonstrate any intent by the IOC to eliminate the inequities and discriminatory impact of gender testing in sport. By classifying gender ambiguities as disorders requiring treatment, the IOC is pathologizing a normal spectrum of humanity. By assuming that the only relevant gender issue is in women’s events, the IOC ignores the potential advantage of physical characteristics associated with the female form (flexibility, for example) to men in certain sports. In addition, the IOC policy is excessively discretionary and subjective in that the IOC does not state what criteria are relevant to a determination of “male” or “female”. By subjecting only certain women to the policy, the IOC also leaves women open to witch hunts and being requested to undergo body modification. By any standard, the IOC’s approach is a violation of international laws prohibiting gender discrimination and the IOC’s own commitment to equality and the right to play. We continue to urge the IOC to adopt the proposed gender policy alternative of the Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion. ”

Gender verification testing is a violation of human rights, specifically the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also violates the Olympic Movement’s stated commitments to equality and the right to play.

To Read Entire Press Release Document – “Click Here” to Download
Published – January 2010

Key References

The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport – Position Statement
The Guiding Principles for Inclusion in Sport
* Presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) January 7th, 2010

Goto Online Petition and let the IOC here your Athletes Voice “Click Here”
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For Immediate Release: Sport leaders say ‘no more’ to IOC gender discrimination



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2010
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Sport leaders say ‘no more’ to IOC gender discrimination

Toronto, Canada: The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport has released the official alternative to the current International Olympic Committee (IOC) Gender Policy. Kristen Worley is a Canadian high performance track cyclist who has been speaking publicly on the issues of gender discrimination and the treatment of gender variant athletes and has recently taken on a new role as a co-founder of the Coalition.

“Gender is not a black and white issue,” remarks Worley, “and the treatment that some athletes have endured in the name of proving one’s gender is so far removed from the spirit of the Olympic movement of modern day. As an athlete who has experienced the challenges of the current antiquated policy it is just thrilling to see this group come together and develop a sound alternative.”

The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport was formed in 2009 to address the IOC Gender Policy. In addition to gender equity, the Coalition seeks a sport system that is open to all people, at all levels of participation recognizing in particular those previously excluded from the narrow definition of what is assumed normal human development.

The release of the position statement coincides with the IOC Gender Summit which will be taking place on January 16th, 2010 in Miami. With only a few short weeks before the opening of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the Coalition is hopeful that sport leaders take note and join together finally saying ‘no more’ to archaic and discriminatory practices in the name of fair play.

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Published – January 2010
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Key References

The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport – Position Statement
The Guiding Principles for Inclusion in Sport
* Presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) January 7th, 2010

Goto Online Petition and let the IOC here your Athletes Voice “Click Here”
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The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport advocates an inclusive sport system

The Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport advocates an inclusive sport system open to all people, at all levels of participation. We believe that the rules of organized sport have for too long marginalized or excluded people for reasons other than their athletic ability.

In January the International Olympic Committee is hosting a summit on gender and sport. Recently, the IOC has made decisions that have a very negative impact on women. The decision to exclude female ski jumpers at the Vancouver Olympic Games, thus requiring Canada to host an event that discriminates on the basis of gender in a country in which gender discrimination is prohibited, is very discouraging to Canadians whose laws will be violated.

Goto Online Petition and let the IOC here your Athletes Voice “Click Here”

In addition, the IOC’s long history of persecuting women who do not fit the IOC’s narrow definition of gender, has a humiliating and extremely upsetting impact on these women and is a violation of their dignity.

As athletes committed to inclusive sport and the shared values of the Olympic movement, and to human compassion for all living beings, we urge the IOC to commit to equitable and inclusive sport processes, that do not marginalize a person based on culture, sexuality, gender, physical ability or any other factor that is irrelevant to a person’s actual (rather than assumed) ability to participate in sport.

We request that the IOC work with and listen to international professionals inrelevant fields of expertise, international and national sport governing bodies, women’s and men’s organizations, and athletes who have been marginalized and effected by policies created by the IOC. IOC policies directly effect athletes lives, and their participation in high performance sport.

Because of the IOC’s accountability to sport and its participants, we urge the IOC to ensure complete transparency of any policy that directly affect the development and assurance of equitable sport. As the Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport, we seek to assure a sport system that is inclusive, safe and sustainable. We urge the IOC to aspire to similar goals that truly reflect the evolution of the Olympic Movement and its values in modern society.

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Published December 2009

University of Toronto, City-Wide Sports Medicine Rounds


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University of Toronto, City-Wide Sports Medicine Rounds

Gender and Sport: Addressing the Needs of Our Athletes
December 11th, 2009, 7:30 am – 9:00 am

Speakers: Dr. Caroline Fusco, Kristen Worley and Dr. Chris Cavacuiti

Moderator: Dr. Lee Schofield

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IOC Gender Summit Missing the Mark – Canada needs to be at the table in Miami in January

IOC Gender Summit – Missing The Mark - Canadian Government and Sport Leaders need to be at the table in Miami in January – To set a solid future and foundation on how we understand gender and future direction of women in the global sports system.

The upcoming IOC Gender Summit in Miami Florida in January prior to the Vancouver Winter Games in February – We must assure Canada is at the table in these meetings, as Canada has proven leadership over the last several years and most recently with our efforts leading the issues of gender in sport, the need to support diverse bodies in sport, impact on women in sport, anti-doping – TUE success, and moreover the massive human rights implications that the IOC has created fraught with ignorance in world sport, by their policies that have been in past created in a silo by few, when should be opened to experts, not just in Canada but universally around the world as these decisions by few, will effectively effect the entire system.

The IOC got is grossly wrong with the Stockholm Consensus six years ago, with the very same “experts”, some being orthopedic surgeons making decisions on gender. Makes you wonder at this level, when logic tells you, you would never hire a orthopedic surgeon to do neurosurgery, then why is it okay then for the IOC to let a orthopedic surgeon become a gender expert?  It really begs a lot of questions of the IOC’s process let alone qualifications to such an important matter, effecting all sport?

This whole process is fraught with problems, let alone the problem of lacking expertise, no women at the table nor countries, NSO or professional sport bodies that have their experiences to share. Nope, the IOC sticks their heads in the sand, and take the typical silo approach, knowingly they have created such harm to so many women.  They should surrender themselves, sit back and listen to the experts or one more woman will fall shortly after this summit once again. The incidences we have seen will continue if we allow the IOC to go down this path.

Dr. Arne Ljungqvist’s IOC Medical Commission Chair, comments to the Associated Press on October 27, 2009 stating, “

“Sometimes you come across cases that are uncertain and ambiguous, and it changes from being a sports matter to a medical matter,” Ljungqvist told The A.P. “That’s where we need to have a review.”

Over several years and interacting with the IOC and with Dr. Ljungqvist it was stunning to read this response from him in the AP. Clearly illustrating the pressure finally got to him and his colleagues of what they have known for years their polices have created, even weeks before IOC chief Jacques Rogge comments to the AP during a telephone interview that this was an IAAF problem attempting to resolve the IOC’s connection to this incident knowing the human rights impact this will have on the IOC if found a connection - the public outcry became to much, because people became more educated worldwide over several weeks of the profound media indulgence during and after the incident in with young Caster Semenya of South Africa at the Berlin World Championships, Ljungqvist and the IOC Medical Commission still appear they do not get it, even after all of what has been said and done. Truly Incredible!

Moreover what is most frightening, that the IOC responds like this assuming expertise, of which for decades of failed and horrible policy, gender and sex testing of women, they assume this responsibility on their own.  We as Joe public accept this of them, never thinking where this all began in the first place.

A simple example to explain and illustrate clearly the issues impacting the international sports system, like Caster and other incredible women that have fallen to failed IOC policy do to social ignorance on how we understand each other, that this is not an issue of gender variance or intersex, but one of greater concern and issue effecting the each one of us in the greater system of sport.

Please see example below –

When asked the question; Do you think Caster Semenya should still be allowed to compete?

My Response;

Usain Bolt and Mike Phelps get to compete – are you saying because Caster is a woman, and that she has unique characteristics as a woman though she did not set a World’s meet record, nor a women’s 800m record.  Women have run faster before her, that she is ineligible to compete?

Where as, we accept Usain Bolt and Mike Phelps performances, blowing away the fields of which they compete and continually applaud their performances saying “Go faster even…” They have unique features and competitive advantage against their male competitors, but they are NOT sex or genetically tested?

They get a pass because they are men?

If you are to apply this question to Caster you must take a broader position of these men too.  Stop focusing on her Inter-sex type – it is fogging the reality of what is really going on here.  Though the public release of her circumstances is profoundly illegal, it is our fascination and social struggle with sex and gender that has caused this. Sport is manmade by humans for humans, which depicts the social barriers that physically exist is a small window of greater society.

WHAT GENETIC TYPE IS USAIN BOLT or MIKE PHELPS?…. WHY AREN’T WE TEARING THEM DOWN?  WHAT IS “UNCERTAIN” AND  OR “AMBIGUOUS” ABOUT THEM THAT ALLOWS THEM TO OUT PERFORM THEIR CLOSEST COMPETITORS?

Using the very same model being applied to Caster, neither Usain Bolt nor Mike Phelps should be allowed to compete either, knowing their physiological advantages over their closest competitors, in both cases the fastest male athletes in the world.  When either Usain or Mike show up to an event, the question remains who will be second or third in the final.

The media and general public need to ask greater questions, and not be spoon-fed by the IOC, and assume because they are the IOC (Power of a Brand) know what they are talking about and have the expertise to project they do. They don’t, we all failed Caster Semenya and dozens of women before her, watching her complete destruction.

The focus is not because Caster has a common intersex type, the issue is actually women’s performance, and how we are not accepting of exceptional performance, and that we tear women down and applaud men, and in-fact ask them to run or swim faster, asking NO questions of them – But women we do, WHY?

This is ALL about how we do sport ...

Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine November 2009, Newsletter – Pgs.11-13
PDF Newsletter From CASM – Click HERE

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CBC Radio One “The Current” Monday September 21st, 2009
For Full Half Hour Interview “CLICK” Here To Listen (Scroll Down To Part 3)
Interviewed
Canadian Elite Track Cyclist – Kristen Worley

Expert Panelists
Doug MacQuarrie - Director of the Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport (CCES)
Myron Genel - Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Yale University

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The IOC Medical Commission and Dr. Ljungqvist once again proving how uneducated and poorly referenced he is to carry  and lead the Gender Summit on his own in January. Ljungqvist’s announcement is only a media acknowledgment by the IOC, to give an impression they are concerned publicly because of the public outrage that has ensued, where just (3) years ago, the said “they did not care…”, now (3) more women have fallen since and (9) women in the last five years in seven other sports, and over (20) women over the last several decades.

“We Punish Difference in our society… and feel we have a right to do it!”

Though I support the summit, it is vital that the proper expertise is present, representing the key issues, to move dialogue and education forward.

CTV National News – Kristen’s Interview – Friday September 11th, 2009
To review interview, “Click Here”

What needs to be clear, the IOC has known about this for several years, hence Canada’s move to create a broader education within sport, because of the horrific history the IOC has played on policy in sport, that has profoundly impacted dozens of women, women’s growth into sport and High Performance circles.

Canada’s AthletesCAN Releases Discussion Paper
“Including Transitioned and Transitioning Athletes in Sport”
Issues, Facts and Perspectives - Published May 29th, 2009
View Science and Literary Reviews – “Click HERE”

Caster’s situation though horrific, what needs to be understood because of her courage, that this has opened a window and new language in the international sports system, that is asking greater questions of the International Olympic Committee internationally and future role of the IOC in sport governance, women’s engagement and development in sport, how we do sport, how policy is created, and who is creating it?

This Gender Summit could not be more important. The IOC cannot assume they can continue to work in this vacuum of which they have done historically, “illustrating how out of touch they are of modern society” as they go down this path, and continue to illustrate they don’t get it, making decisions that have profound impact on athletes and women in sport. It is time we put a stop to this, and assure the IOC recognizes this history, and that what has happened to Caster Semenya and women before her, that this is not an IAAF issue, but a decorated history of failed IOC policy creating a process of policy that is exclusive not inclusive under their guidelines.

Change must happen now, or we will see more women fall as we saw young Caster do, and as heartbreaking as it was for everyone watching around the globe, that we have a chance to say to the IOC;

This will no longer happen in world sport and to any other woman ever again.

WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM… Education is so key going forward.

*Please see below references.

IOC biggest threat to future of global sport- Hindustan Times
Interview with Kristen Worley
Published – October 2007
Hindustan Times – View Full Article

Who decides what is the definition of a woman- Hindustan Times
Interview with Mianne Bagger
Published – October 2007
Hindustan Times – View Full Article

Canadian cyclist “peddles” for Santhi – Hindustan Times
Published – October 2007
Hindustan Times – View Full Article

Punishing Difference – Express Buzz
Published – January 2009
Express Buzz – View Full Article

Open Letter – Jacques Rogge - International Olympic Committee -
January 2009

Releasing Ms. Santhi Soundarajan as the “martyr” of the IOC’s failed sex and
gender policy in International sport

Kristen Worley’s website – View Full Letter

Other Key Academic and Scientific Reviews

Canada’s AthletesCAN Releases Discussion Paper
“Including Transitioned and Transitioning Athletes in Sport”
Issues, Facts and Perspectives
Published May 29th, 2009
View Full Papers

Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine Position Statement
Gender Verification in Sport
Published 1997
View Full Paper

For Further In-depth Resources and Contacts.

Kristen Worley - www.kristenworley.ca

Mianne Bagger - www.miannegolf.com

AthletesCAN - www.athletescan.com

Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport - www.cces.ca

Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport
and Physical Activity - www.caaws.ca

Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine - www.casm-acms.org