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Anti-doping regulatory testing practices puts reality on female testosterone levels, does not support IOC Hyperandrogenism Rule.

Illustrates and reveals the IOC is using “selective discrimination” for the use of consumerism to preserve the “vision of femininity”.

With the London Olympics rolling just around the corner in the next few weeks, there has been great anticipation the last several weeks of the concerns of the International Olympic Committee’s [IOC] most recent gender evaluation testing of female athletes, with their focus on female natural serum testosterone levels. This is an effort to shed some light on the facts to articulate correctly, that in-fact what the IOC is actually has nothing to do with “fairness” and or “competitive performance” of a given athlete, that in-fact as many scholars including myself have brought to light, that this is all about consumerism, preserving “femininity” over celebrating excellence and human performance in women as we do with men.
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Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport [CCES]
CCES Anti-doping Control email response June 29th, 2011.

“…fluctuations in these hormones may be indicative of the use of Prohibited Substances and/or Methods. It may also serve as a screening tool to perform more detailed analysis of a sample for specific substances (e.g. synthetic testosterone). The laboratory would “only” report an adverse analytical finding (ie. positive test) if the presence of an exogenous (synthetic) form of a Prohibited Substance was detected.”
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Natural serum testosterone levels are measured not for the purpose “elevated natural secreted levels”, but for the purpose as markers to “register fluctuation” in doping control to that would indicate possibly intervention and or use of a synthetic testosterone by the athlete.

Measurement of an athlete natural levels are measured “solely” as a tool/reference marker, a base regulator that could show an adverse analytical finding of testosterone. As noted by doping control, ONLY then becomes reported of an athletes testosterone levels show an exogenous presence.

So women with natural occurring higher levels of testosterone, is NEVER reported unless an exogenous presence. (This is really important to the puzzle).

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) of which naturally impacts 18% or higher in female athletes (1 in 5 women), then stays under the radar their higher levels of natural production of testosterone. Though we measure natural serum levels, ONLY used as tail tail markers for testing purposes to show and possible irregularity and variance levels indicating a synthetic origin.

As the IOC has tried to address the Hyperandrogenism Rule as an issue of Intersex which it is NOT that either in an effort to confuse the public, that this is an issue of “Atypical bodies” in sport and that this rule is designed in an effort of “fairness in women’s sport”.

With the research and analytical findings, does not hold water. Hyperandrogenism and PCOS are neither a “Intersex type” though there are over a (100) different types (many person(s) living with an intersex type many times live their entire lives not even knowing they have it), neither as the IOC has expressed, hyperandrogenism or PCOS are in-fact, an intersex let alone a gender issue at all, but used as a tool to confuse, and “project as an attack on women’s sport”, and the concept of women being strong bodied and or strong featured, means that someone is physically cross sexed, is un-factual based on science and untrue.

PCOS, develops in 1/5 women from ages 8 to 45, do too cysts developing on their ovaries causing excessive excretion of androgens into their system. Hyperandrogenism, though similar on how it occurs and develops in women to that of PCOS, only 1/25000 are effected – that the difference is during pubescent development, the elevated androgen can commonly create “outward stronger features in a women’s presentation” though still feminine and ALL 100 % woman.

I hear from many of my girl friends in high performance (HP) cycling, though not unique to cycling in Canada and the United States, that they know, being clinically diagnosed by their physician having excessive testosterone levels. There are many many reasons up and above PCOS and Hyperandrogenism why women develop higher natural serum testosterone levels, it is in-fact common. Testosterone is a “male sex development” hormone, but an “everybody sex hormone”. Human-beings can not live without it and has nothing to with being either male or female on how you identify.

As noted – Important to the IOC’s focus on Hyperandrogenism and testosterone that 1/25000 women are effected by clinically by Hyperandrogenism, where 1/5 women develop PCOS.

The analytical findings and science, validates that Caster was targeted and this is ALL about preserving the “vision of femininity” in sport and has absolutely NOTHING to with either intersex and or performance/fairness as the International Olympic Committee wishes the public to believe.

We know just based statistically, that at a min. 18% of women competing in London in 3 weeks under the radar, and can be certain that the number is much higher, as experts say this is just the women who know and have been clinically diagnosed with PCOS and had symptoms that caused them to seek more information from their practitioner. Noted by doping control and confirmed, if for the IOC, testosterone really is an issue in women, anti-doping is clearly doing nothing about it.

Conclusion, clearly demonstrated based on the facts, specific women are being targeted solely based on what they look like and that they appear feminine enough for commercial purposes. For most women, this is an all to common struggle, but the IOC reconfirms that status and “keeping women in their feminine looking box” seen as sex objects first, athletes second solely for the purpose of commercialism, having absolutely NOTHING to do with either “Intersex and or competitive performance and or fairness in women’s sport.”

If the IOC was being “truthful” about their concerns of women’s natural serum testosterone levels it would have been reflected in anti-doping and passport system.  Which we can conclusively acknowledge is NOT being done.

This is all about “selective discrimination” for the sole purpose of consumerism of women bodies.

As a consequence, “real women” are getting hurt bye it!

Published July 2012

The Guardian

The IOC’s superwoman complex: how flawed sex-testing discriminates
Behind the IOC’s new policy on male-female testosterone levels is plain bias about what a female athlete should look like.

By Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis
July 2nd, 2012


Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) quietly dropped what may prove to be a bomb in the middle of the already explosive question of who can compete in women’s events in the 2012 London summer Games. The new sex-testing policy threatens to ban women whose bodies produce high levels of testosterone, what medicine calls hyperandrogenism.

In the interests of fairness, men with lower than normal levels will also be banned, or will be required to compete in the women’s divisions. The IOC has not yet clarified whether they will need to comply with women’s outfits.

OK, so we made up the part about men. But it would, indeed, make sense – that is, if anything in this policy made sense. The problem is that it doesn’t.

The new policy was expected, although the IOC has gone even further than last year’s policy adopted by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in scrutinizing and harassing women who, as all experts agree, have not cheated, and whose athletic performances are clearly within the range of their peer female athletes.

It’s downright chilling that instead of discouraging the abuse of hyperandrogenism charges to harass women athletes, the IOC has actually called for the National Olympic Committees to “actively investigate any perceived deviation in sex characteristics” (pdf) among female athletes. (The accompanying bland suggestion that sanctions “may” be imposed on anyone found to ask for an investigation of an athlete in bad faith is not reassuring.)

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Published July 2012

The New York Times

Sex-Verification Policy Is Criticized as a Failure
By JULIET MACUR
Published: June 25, 2012

The International Olympic Committee’s new policy regarding who is eligible to compete as a female athlete is a veiled sex-verification test that fails in its objective to protect the integrity of women’s events at the Games, critics of the regulations said Monday.

Kevin B. Wamsley, a professor of sport history at the University of Western Ontario who has written about the issue of sex testing in sports, called the new policy a farce.

He said the policy was not an improvement on the invasive sex-verification testing to which Caster Semenya, the South African runner, was subjected in 2009 after winning the world championships in the 800 meters.

“No matter what they call it, it’s still a sex test that’s all about judgments and so much more about social values than science,” said Wamsley, the former director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies. “They don’t need this test, and I think they should get rid of it.”

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Published June 2012

NY Times Publisher – Promotes IOC oppression tools policies of women’s endocrine systems at the cost of commercialism – selling “femininity”.

New York Times Article:
I.O.C. Adopts Policy for Deciding Whether an Athlete Can Compete as a Woman
Published June 24th, 2012

Jason Stallman NY Times Publisher, in todays article written by Juliet Macur, has sold out to ALL Women in promoting the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) policy release on Hyperandrogenism on June 24th, 2012 prior to the London Olympics next month.  Stallman well aware of the science and expertise from Canada, United States and Europe, who with strong science – overwhelmingly, oppose and suggest “the science does not match the policies and is based on folklore”, and that, we are raping and violating women for no reason other then to the selling out to commercialism, and that the issues being perpetuated by the IOC’s well oiled propaganda machine,  primary focus is to protect “femininity”. Not to be confused with women’s sport.  As experts conclude, the IOC’s continued dark (50) year history trying to regulate “fairness” as a facade and purposely misguide the public, to focus on what their real aspirations are, is to what sells, NOT women’s sport, but “femininity”. The IOC a corporation and business that relies on brand to fund the games, under the illusion of sport, competitive excellence and inclusion.

This is done on purpose, as it relates to commercialism and what sells best, and will drive profits.  Truthfully the IOC doesn’t care about sport, it is a vehicle to a means end.  It is about “POWER AND MONEY”. So what drives those numbers up on the positive side of the balance sheet, are MENS SPORT AND FEMININITY.  Selling to their target consumer which is primarily men.  Women’s sport, women’s excellence and celebration thereof, is barely existent, and a consumer facade.  Thus all to well known, the degree of the global challenge for women and women’s sports organizations to grow and develop.  WE are continually oppressed.

Gender verification of women of the last (50) years, created by Prof. Arne Ljungqvist and Co-fathered by Dr. Myron Genel (Yale) have been behind the scenes challenged by top experts, and now clearly by the experts, as it pertains to gender verification, Stockholm Consensus and most recently the IOC Regualtions on female Hyperandrogenism, “the polices don’t match the science”.

In-fact and imporant to note, neither Ljungqvist, Genel, Villain (UCLA) and or Bermon (IAAF) have ever tested one athlete, let alone spoken with the athletes grossly impacted around by these human rights violation, causing physical/social rape, humiliation and even suicide.

Experts around the world are saying these men are a “FRAUD” and the science is there clearly to prove it without a doubt, and they know it. The IOC, has perpetuated this years knowingly the science has been clearly presented, and it is they trying to avoid “HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, HUMILIATION AND RAPE CHARGES” OF FEMALE ATHLETES.”

The policy presented by the IOC on June 24th, 2012 is a propaganda tool, using “testosterone” which is an everyone hormone, and ALL high performance athletes female and or male, have excessive natural serum testosterone levels.  There are multiple coming together regarding human physiology, that creates human excellence in a given sport. testosterone being one of over a dozen.  Moreover, which the purposely does not explain, every female and or male have androgen receptors, of which regulate and absorb at different rate testosterone in a person body.  Many women and men athletes, have an “insensitivity” no matter their level of testosterone production from their ovaries or testicles. The IOC and IAAF have purposely misguided sport and public, putting value number of testosterone level ml/ of 100 max for women. This cannot be done, as the athletes uptake through their receptors could be insensitive and or highly sensitive and it depends on the individual athlete.  The female athlete could have 250 ml/ but if she is insensitive or low receptors, it would not matter if she had 25ml/ and or 300ml.  it is how the body utilizes it and it cannot be controlled let alone evaluated.

The IOC has done this purposely, and know this to be true, they do “not want to see strong featured women” in sport as we are socially accepting of this of men, of which we do not oppress.

This entire issue is not about women excellence and or performance, even as far women sport. It is what sells as the box office, and will draw most money and financial income for the Olympic games, which is “FEMININITY”, NOT Women’s Sport.

This is a social science exercise and nothing to do with physiology, science and or gender.  The IOC has done this on purpose and as they have only learn time and time again, as Olympic history has shown, the falling of so many women who have been sort hurt and violated, and continue to be, at the cost of commercialism and sexism of women’s bodies, and femininity.

What Jason Stallman has done though this NY Times article, only to further confirm the IOC’s false ideology, stereotypes and threat to ALL women, but as well further as he used “Casters” image and name as the “poster child” of the issues. From a journalistic view is illegal, continuing to condemn, demean her for being a great woman. Showcasing his own ignorance  and the power of the “illusion and box” ALL women suffer from trying to fit into the “socially accepted man-made box”, only reinforced by the International Olympic Committee for the sole purpose of “commercialism” as the science and and expertise does not support the IOC’s recent and past policies as it pertains to women’s gender of which we do not regulate mens gender.

The IOC ‘s release on June 24th, 2012, is symbolic and tragedy of the man-made barriers created by men for women, in the vision of men, of women’s bodies, abilities and attaching as a priority sexuality and femininity over women’s ability to compete well and celebrate our excellence as we do men. The IOC is prepared at ALL cost to oppress that, and physically oppress women physically an their endocrine systems to ensure this does not happen, and women are unable to compete at the same level as men, requiring them to develop and become strong bodied, to be the every best they can be in their given sport.

This will continue at any cost, until the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is legally challenged, as they know is forth coming. It is unfortunate, as a  society and sports system, that these issues cannot be done in any other way, which speaks to the much bigger issues of the business of the IOC and and their role and influence and particpation in the future development of sport.

There should be a panel of Olympic women, elected by women only to evaluate male masculinity and competitive performance, to assure that male athletes conform to the rigid man-made stereotypes assuring they are not to feminine in the eyes of the IOC, and meet the model needed for accepted consumerism on the playing field.

THE IOC CREATING UNWARRANTED  OPPRESSION, GENDER “WITCH HUNTS” AND VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN…

This insanity must stop!

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Published June 24th, 2012

CBC – Radio Q. IOC/IAAF Hyperandrogenism Rule – Based on “folklore”

June 19th, 2012

A discussion with Katrina Karkazis PhD, MPH (Center for Biomedical Ethics
Stanford University, Dr. Rebecca Jordan- Young (Bernard College, New York), speak about concerns of the recent saying the science around testosterone and women in elite and Olympic sport is not scientifically supported. Dr. Jordan-Young says; “It is based on folklore”.

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GH 2000 Final Report
GH-2000 A Methodology for Detection of Doping with Growth Hormone and
Related Substances

The study variance and overlap of testosterone between women/male elite athlete bodies.

Funded by the European Union/International Olympic Committee

Published June 2012

Growth-Promoting Hormones Don’t Stimulate Strength: Research Debunks Bodybuilding Myth

June 18th, 2012

New research from scientists at McMaster University reveals exercise-related testosterone and growth hormone do not play an influential role in building muscle after weightlifting, despite conventional wisdom suggesting otherwise.

The findings indicate that bodybuilders who look to manipulate those hormones through exercise routines are wasting their time.

In two separate studies, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology and the European Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers found anabolic hormones – long thought to be essential for building a muscular frame – do not influence muscle protein synthesis, the process that leads to bigger muscles.

“A popular mindset for weightlifters is that increased levels of hormones after exercise play a key role in building muscle,” explains Daniel West, lead author of both studies and a graduate student in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster. “That is simply not the case.”

In the first study, researchers examined the responses of both male and female participants to intense leg exercise. Despite a 45-fold difference in testosterone increase, men and women were able to make new muscle protein at exactly the same rate.

“Since new muscle proteins eventually add up to muscle growth, this is an important finding,” says West.

“While testosterone is definitely anabolic and promotes muscle growth in men and women at high doses, such as those used during steroid abuse, our findings show that naturally occurring levels of testosterone do not influence the rate of muscle protein synthesis.”

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Published June 2012

New York Times
Gender Testing for Athletes Remains a Tough Call

By Eric Vilain
June 18th, 2012

Is LeBron James too tall and too fast to play basketball?

In times of extreme political correctness infiltrating almost every societal topic, sport stands out as an oddity. It captures the passion of billions of people around the world, yet it is grotesquely unequal. There are no remedial programs for ungifted athletes.

Yet when it comes to women in sports, everyone frets about equality.

This was particularly true in the outrage over the case of Caster Semenya, the South African athlete who won the 800 meters at the world championships in Berlin in 2009 and was accused of holding an unfair advantage because she was thought to compete unjustly in a women’s event. When men are more talented than others, it is an expression of the beauty of sports. But when women outcompete others, suspicions about eligibility and arguments for a level playing field often arise.

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Published June  2012

London 2012 Olympics: is measuring athletes’ ‘femaleness’ ever acceptable?

By Sam Murphy
June 14th, 2012

Sport is not a level playing field. If some athletes have ‘better’ hormones, then surely that’s the same as having better genes

London 2012 Olympics: is measuring athletes’ ‘femaleness’ ever acceptable?

Sport is not a level playing field. If some athletes have ‘better’ hormones, then surely that’s the same as having better genes

It’s a stressful time for any Olympic contender right now, as they focus on peaking at the right time, steering clear of injuries and preparing mentally for the ultimate contest. But some female athletes have an extra thing to worry about: gender authentication.

You may remember the furore surrounding the South African 800m runner Caster Semenya when, in 2009, she who won the world championships in Berlin by a huge 2-second margin. Even before the medals had been handed out, Semenya’s authenticity as a woman was being questioned and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) confirmed that gender verification tests were being undertaken. While Semenya’s case was being reviewed by the IAAF she was banned from competition, but did not escape the glare of media speculation (one headline asked “Woman, man or a little bit of both?”). Although the IAAF never made its findings public, it was widely reported that Semenya had both male and female sex organs and testosterone levels three times higher than typically found in a woman. Semenya got to keep her medal and, after an 11-month hiatus, the right to continue competing against other women. Through her legal representatives, she stated at the time: “I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.”

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Published June, 2012

Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes

Certain Athletes Need to Be Deemed ‘Feminine’ Enough for Competition

By Katie J.M. Baker

Do female athletes with “unusually” high levels of male hormones have an unfair advantage on the field? The International Association of Athletics Federations thinks so: the organization recently decided that a woman cannot compete in track and field sports if she has too much testosterone in her apparently confusing body.
The issue has been a hot topic in South Africa ever since 21-year-old Caster Semenya won an 800-meter world championship and her competitors called her out for her “muscular biceps” and “husky voice.” “These kind of people should not run with us. For me, she’s not a woman. She’s a man,” said Elisa Cusma, who placed sixth in the race. Some might think Cusma sounds like a sore loser, but the IAAF has decreed that women like Semenya must have surgery or receive hormone therapy prescribed by an IAAF expert medical panel if they want to continue to compete, because they have an “unfair advantage,” said Dr. Stéphane Bermon, coordinator of the IAAF working group on Hyperandrogenism and Sex Reassignment in Female Athletics. “More muscle mass, easier recovery and a higher level of blood red cells.”

Semenya kept her medal and was eventually allowed to race, but she looks markedly more feminine now — according to the Toronto Star, she’s “almost unrecognizable from photographs taken during the height of the controversy.” Track and field managers at the university she trains at say they know she gets treatment, but that they can’t give any details. “We all accept . . . and she accepts . . . within sports you have to perform within certain guidelines, or else it will be chaos,” explained one manager. Semenya won’t talk about it either, but now that she has a “fit, feminine body” and wears tight clothes to show it off, people seem satisfied enough.

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Published June 12th 2012

The Toronto Star – Olympics struggle with ‘policing femininity’

By Stephanie Findlay
June 8th, 2012

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA— There are female athletes who will be competing at the Olympic Games this summer after undergoing treatment to make them less masculine.

Still others are being secretly investigated for displaying overly manly characteristics, as sport’s highest medical officials attempt to quantify — and regulate — the hormonal difference between male and female athletes.

Caster Semenya, the South African runner who was so fast and muscular that many suspected she was a man, exploded onto the front pages three years ago. She was considered an outlier, a one-time anomaly.

But similar cases are emerging all over the world, and Semenya, who was banned from competition for 11 months while authorities investigated her sex, is back, vying for gold.

Semenya and other women like her face a complex question: Does a female athlete whose body naturally produces unusually high levels of male hormones, allowing them to put on more muscle mass and recover faster, have an “unfair” advantage?

In a move critics call “policing femininity,” recent rule changes by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the governing body of track and field, state that for a woman to compete, her testosterone must not exceed the male threshold.

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Published June 8th, 2012

OutSport Toronto Presents

Then And Now

In a joint collaboration with OutSport Toronto and Cave Painter Films, supported and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Resource Council of Canada. The documentary production was created for a Toronto District School Board Conference (TDSB) at the beginning of May 2012, to bring awareness, language and support to working professionals within the school system to assure greater support to young people who are currently being challenged with these issues, and trying to find their place in the school and athletic system.

Brought together 10 athletes, speaking about growing up with issues of sexuality and gender diversity and the impact and the important role sport has played individual in their lives.

I am just so proud of the all the individuals that had to courage to speak of their experience.

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Published May 20th, 2012

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April 4th, 2012 | CTV National News – Facing Gender Discrimination

Facing gender discrimination
Following the Miss Universe Pagents’ decision to change their rules regarding gender, Cyclist Kristen Worley discusses how she faced similar discrimination within her own sport of high-performance cycling, claiming existing policies oppress the athlete.

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Published April 4th, 2012

Dr. Eric Vilain (UCLA) “Grows a Conscience” – IOC’s 5^th World Women’s Conference 2012

Los Angeles, February 18th, 2012 - Dr. Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, and Professor, Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Urology at the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA], as well advisor to the International Medical Commission [IOC] regarding gender verification testing of female athletes, developing of the 2003 Stockholm Consensus and most recently by the highly controversial policy by the IOC Hyperandrogenism rule and NCAA’s gender inclusion policy this past September. Another example of an oppression tool (neither supported by factual science) of designed oppression of a women(s) endocrine system, which is illegal, immoral and in-fact medically unethical, positioning the NCAA in a place of future human rights violations with ANY future athletes that the NCAA attempt to us these policies and procedures against any athlete, and god-forbid they do. The lacking common sense, as it relates to human physiology, let alone laws surrounding human rights violations is profound of which NO RESEARCH was done.  Again only done hypothetically, of which science when done properly proves otherwise.

Rogge states in his open comments at the conference;

“We need more women leaders throughout the Olympic Movement, not only to prove our commitment to gender equality, but to take advantage of their brains, their energy and their creativity.”

Vilain invited by the IOC this past weekend in Los Angeles, to present at the IOC’s 5^th World Women’s Conference where Vilian made a stunning confession saying;

“Women with disorders of sex development have no competitive advantage than any athlete with good genes”.

It seems Vilain has grown a conscience, recognizing the unfathomable impact of his work and colleagues on so many women over the last five decades of which he has been a participant over the last ten years, that has only had catastrophic impact directly onto female athletes, of which is well know behind the scenes. The development of gender verification testing and the Stockholm Consensus created and published by the IOC, admitted by IOC Medical Commission president Patrick Schamasch, to Canadian government and officials, Mianne Bagger and me on September 18^th, 2006, that in-fact the IOC had never done the science and or research to support their current gender policies. It was all done on a hypothetical level. Of which, as science has proven the claims made by Vilain and the IOC as scientifically untrue.

This has been going on behind the scenes away from the public for several years. Vilain’s statements this weekend were NOT new news to those engaged behind the scenes, but the increased pressure on these individuals to tell the truth as in-fact these issues were only continuing to hurt and violate more women.

The most recent evidence, of such impact of a young South African woman of which policies led to severe human rights violations and a degree of humiliation so profound few words can describe, of which her “gender was never in question”, and everything about this incident, as one behind the scenes 99% of what was published was untrue. Though having life long implications for her and many women before her, and brought to the IOC’s attention by Canadian officials in 2006, that more then eight women had been impacted by these false policies since 1985, including a dear friend 800m runner from India Santhi Soundarajan. Who that following December at the Asian games was gender tested and violated. Her very identity thrown into suspicion, of her identity as a woman of which she was violated physically socially, her silver medal being take from her, placed into poverty, thus trying to take her life do to the global humiliation.

We are humiliating women… This is what the IOC is doing, creating false policy unsupported by factual science and data,  as now Vilain is trying now to denounce himself from, for his participation in these horrific policies designed to disempower and humiliate women, designed by men. Suggesting any association to competitive performance, where the mounting medical evidence accumulated over the last several years says otherwise.

Seen by many women and sport, leaders in sport in Canada, now educated about the issues of gender, are asking big questions of the IOC, Vilain and fellow colleagues, led by IOC Medical Commission Chair, Prof. Arne Ljungqvist who has the prolific designer and father of gender testing over the last five decades. Most recently in October 2011, in a joint presentation at the Play the Game conference, in Cologne Germany, speaking about the issues of gender in Olympic and International sport, made stunning comments on gender that by any standard and medical expertise of which he could not medically back.

The all too famous Ljungqvist comment, “Owe it is very difficult.” We can see from Ljungqvist’s response yes it is for him, as he known’s he has failed horribly and these comments are deliberate to avoid his accountability – and taken (50) years. As Canadian top ethics expert John Dalla Costa projected in a recent conference call with Sport Canada recently;

“With the mounting evidence, to suggest ignorance and not knowing, is no longer a viable answer…”

Thus Georg Facius (Denmark) in the same session with Ljungqvist and Canada’s own Dr. Bruce Kidd, Facius in his presentation requested for his immediate resignation from the IOC Medical Commission for the (5) decades for his incompetence, and impact this has had on so many women historically. Remarking “gender testing is a serious business” in his opening statements  further stating “The Major Medical Blunder of the 20^th Century” and as Dr. Kidd noted, has only had “catastrophic impact on female athletes”.

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The concept of (2) pole sex society doesn’t exist in nature.  This is a man-made concept, as both Facius and Kidd spoke to in Cologne.  Too suggest otherwise is unethical. We are trying to force nature into man-made policy, instead of understanding nature and building policy around it.

“You are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole… Women specifically are getting terrorized and violated physically and socially because of it.”

What Vilain is declaring in LA this past weekend, that what has happen to so many women, Caster, Santhi, including me and dozens of others, should have never happened. Through their policies, which again were ONLY hypothetical, not backed by REAL science and has led to human rights violations carried out specifically on women. These have been declared “Tools of Oppression” on ALL women, as noted in the conference outcome report, parallels and is consistent the problems in sport, sport participation and leadership position within International sport and Olympic programming.

Outcome Results of LA Women’s Conference – The numbers are staggering but speaks to the reality of the OPPRESSION of women, and the “TOOLS” designed and measured to do just that.

What we are seeing is the “stereotype” of woman of which women are forced to fit into, which we do not do to men. Men it is an open field. Thus is you fall outside of Atypical socially definition accepted female; “look out we are going to get you and we will humiliate you…”, breaking ALL social, ethical laws and human rights. The sad part is too, the IOC they think can do this and feel they have a right to violate women, as IOC President on a conference  call with Canadian officials when asked about gender testing me in-fact as an athlete he replied, “I can do anything I want…”. Though as shocking as that was, in principal there lack of, through ignorance and perpetuating fear and “pinning women against women”, and suggesting competitive performance advantage, of which they cannot prove and never will be, focusing on the stereotype of “men overpowering women”, which again is not true by science and they know it. What they in-fact have been doing disempowering women and placing limits on us, not allowing women to appear strong bodied and become great female athletes. Again we allow this for men and not women.

This is a social problem, and was never an issue of physiology.

Vilain’s presentation though note worthy from the standpoint as a key figure and consultant to the IOC Medical Commission, his 180 degree turn that no longer as self-proclaimed experts who in-fact are NOT experts, and not in the pockets or friends of the IOC, the real evidence of which they have continued to try to oppress over the last several years, can no longer hide the past and in-fact now asking enormous ethical questions from a medical perspective of Vilain and others who participated in these programs of policy development with the IOC, on the basis if Human Rights and participation and safety in sport. These guys who term “themselves” as “experts” can no longer denied as the evidence and medical expertise, says otherwise.

It can only be assumed, Vilain is trying to distance himself from this history. Unfortunately, the athletes who have been violated by these policies did not have that choice and or protections. What Vilain and the IOC need to understand very clearly, that those who commit Human Rights Violations don’t get a free pass either. Admitting to what has happened is only the first step.

The knowledge Valain projected we’ve known for years… and have been well known within these circles. What the issues are now, is the accountability of those who have committed these crimes against women.

WE the women have paid a very dear price for it and this incompetence and we did not get a free pass. We got the constellation prize… Gender verification and full public humiliation and discrimination and our very identities tested and scrutinized globally… Vilain is looking for an OUT! Those violated didn’t get that option, why should the violators? Sic!

The shoe is now on the other foot and there is way too much evidence – the level of expertise is over powering, and it is important for the principals of sport and future of the Olympic Movement, that this dark history is identified, and be able to move beyond it, so no more women will be physically and socially humiliated and as Maria José Martínez-Patiño said, she felt “RAPED” in 1985. Which is a common expression by most of the women directly exposed, implicated, isolated and assaulted directly in these experiences.

THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE OTHER IT IS STEALING YOUR SOUL. WHO HAS THAT RIGHT?

WE ARE REAL HUMAN-BEINGS AND WOMEN BEHIND THESE WORDS… JUST LIKE YOU…

“We must stop the hurt now…” As I told IOC Medical Commission President Patrick Schamasch September 18th, 2006 by telephone, with Canadian sport leaders. “Someone will be killed if this is not stopped.”  Since this time, (8) more women have fallen that I have come to know unfortunately personally.

Published February 20th, 2012