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The University of Western Ontario Medical Journal

Gender verification testing: Necessary for the integrity of international athletics, or inexcusable breach of personal privacy?

Colin Meyer Macaulay (Meds 2012), Moska Hamidi (Meds 2013),
and Karline Treurnicht-Naylor (Meds 2013)
Faculty reviewer: Dr. Cheril Clarson, Department of Medicine, UWO

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Volume 79, Number 2 – Endocrinology
Published Spring 2010

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Published March 18th, 2011

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CTV National News – Kristen’s live interview in response to Caster Semenya from South Africa, 800m runner -

IAAF World Championships, Berlin 2009.

Thursday August 20th, 2009

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Globe & Mail – Thursday August 27, 2009
David Zirin and Sherry Wolf

There’s nothing sporting about sex tests

The whole thing is antiquated and stigmatizing, and says far more about those doing the testing than about the athletes tested.

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Mr. Jacques Rogge
CEO

International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Chateau de Vidy
1007 Lausanne
Switzerland

January 4th, 2009

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

Dear Mr. Rogge,

I wish I was writing you and the International Olympic Committee executive board under better circumstances as we start 2009. In recent days, because of the released article published January 2nd, 2009 by The Times of India, titled “Shanti Soundarajan weaving Olympian dreams all over again”.

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Times of India Article – January 2, 2009

Which was followed by an article from Reuters in the UK “tabloid version” published the same day titled “Briefs – Indian athlete takes up coaching after sex test failure.”

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Reuters UK  Article

Upon comparison, one can see that these two articles are significantly different. Reuters used this opportunity as many media outlets around the world have done, and as you and I both saw during the Beijing games, to use Santhi as the face and “martyr” of media worldwide as it relates directly to sex and gender policies in global sport. It still continues today.

What is ironic is this was never Santhi’s problem, but one as you and I have discussed before. It is the result of the failed history of the IOC. This has gone on for decades. Reading both these articles, as an example, Santhi never failed a sex test, as she never had one. If she had, as noted with experts from around the world online with both IOC Medical Commission directors Ljungqvist/Schamasch, of which you were made privy to through emails with leaders here in Canadian government, sport and doping, that the sex testing as a test does not exist. The current method measures nothing, as you should be aware of as I sit on international boards representing intersex person(s) in Canada with the “world experts” and that normal human development is vast and there are numerous variations, and it is the IOC that is problematic, by insisting on enforcing the standards of an unnatural human sex and gender binary in global sport.

Continue reading ‘Open Letter – Jacques Rogge International Olympic Committee (IOC) – January 4th, 2009′

I guess that’s the question we’re all asking! One would assume that anything coming under the umbrella of the Olympic logo and/or brand is required to follow governance as directed by the parent organisation. National Olympic organisations would then be required to follow the same rules and procedures set forth by the IOC of course. As we have since learnt that the IOC still carries out sex testing, the OCA was in fact merely following IOC procedures. Although the IOC announced it would stop sex testing, it has maintained the ‘right’ to test any athlete upon reasonable suspicion.
Published – October 2007
Hindustan Times – Full Article