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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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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

This article  is a reflection of Canada’s commitment and leadership to diversity, social ethics and inclusion. In April, we convened in Ottawa as a select panel, hosted by the Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport.  Unanimously condemning gender testing and the Stockholm Consensus despite the sorry history of which they were designed too medicalize women and the definition of womanhood, taking expression of embodied gender identity out of the very hands of the very humans involved , and setting up many other young people for the devastating treatment that Caster Semenya experienced. Moreover, it flies in the face of the overwhelming evidence of the tremendous homonal variability among humans.

NY Times ESSAY – Sports
Redefining the Sexes in Unequal Terms
April 23, 2011

The good news is that the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body for track and field, have worked hard to come up with a new policy to deal with athletes whose sex development is unusual.

Although sports officials contend that this reworking is not a specific response to the fiasco surrounding the South African runner Caster Semenya, what happened to Semenya constitutes reason enough to seek reform. Surely no athlete should learn from watching television, as Semenya did, that her sex has been called in question on the international stage. And no athletes should have to face the previous patchwork policy on sex testing, wondering what will happen if their particular condition is not clearly explained in the rules.

The new policy no longer allows any room for a simplistic “I know it when I see it” approach to who counts as a female athlete. Women who test in the male range for functional testosterone will have to have their levels chemically squashed in order to play. (Functional testosterone means not just the amount the body makes, but also how the body responds to it, because some people’s cells lack receptors to respond.)

The bad news is that the new policy seems sexist in its philosophy. Indeed, it is so sexist that it may even count as a violation of Title IX, which will matter because the international policies will undoubtedly trickle down to school-based sports.

The hormones in question are not naturally exclusive to men. Women and men naturally make androgens — sometimes called strength-building hormones — including testosterone.

Yet despite the fact that testosterone belongs to women, too, the I.O.C. and the I.A.A.F. are basically saying it is really a manly thing: “You can have functional testosterone, but if you make too much, you’re out of the game because you’re not a real woman.”

To my knowledge, there is no equivalent of this biochemical policing in men’s sports. If a man has a mutation that gives him a big advantage — say he makes lots of testosterone — he can count that as a natural advantage. Indeed, at least now, men and women are allowed all other advantageous biochemical mutations.

The idea behind this policy is to make a move toward creating the mythical level playing field. But what is really being leveled here is the bodies of female athletes. Thus the game being played seems to be a kind of controlling who will count as a sexually appropriate woman: submit to being made sexually “normal” through hormone treatments or you cannot compete.

The I.O.C. and the track federation would probably say that the typical man’s functional testosterone level is orders of magnitude higher than the typical woman’s. True enough, but the same large variations could be true for other naturally occurring differences between classes of athletes, and yet it is only women who are being limited in terms of natural biochemical advantage.

At a meeting hosted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport last week in Ottawa, a group of us mulled over this problem. We were all sympathetic to the I.O.C. and I.A.A.F.’s struggle. Sports has surely grown up past the age of sexual innocence, but it has not found its way. There is no perfect solution, one that is reasonably objective, universally applicable and universally satisfying.

Yet this newly proposed biological reduction of women to a hormonally disadvantaged class of people — one medically made disadvantaged, if necessary — struck many of us as regressive from the standpoint of women’s rights. Indeed, it reminds me of those itty-bitty shorts that college women’s volleyball players must wear. They each sexualize the bodies of female athletes as a requirement of play. They each insist that a woman never be manly.

In Ottawa, I met the former Olympian Bruce Kidd, a leader in international sports policy who served for nearly two decades as the dean of the faculty of physical education and health at the University of Toronto.

In a follow-up e-mail correspondence, he wrote: “How can the I.O.C. and I.A.A.F. claim that they support the full inclusion of women when they reimpose a medical test for their very identity? It’s a huge setback for human rights and the integrity of the Olympic movement.”

Alice Dreger is a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

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Published April 26, 2011

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Olympics Wise Up On Gender Testing, Finally
Jeremy Hsu
Originally Published August 5th, 2008

“No competitive advantage

Good intentions did not turn up any imposters during gender screening. Instead, the gender tests punished athletes with disorders that affected their sex chromosomes or genitalia appearance.

“It was unfair not to allow them to compete, particularly since there’s no plausible reason to think they would have had an advantage,” Simpson said.”

“I lost friends, my fiancé, hope and energy,” said Martinez-Patino in a 2005 editorial in the journal Lancet. “But I knew that I was a woman and that my genetic difference gave me no unfair physical advantage.”

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Lancet 2005; 366: S38 María José Martínez-Patiño – Personal Account A woman tried and tested

As well…

An approach to the biological, historical and psychological repercussions of gender verification in top level competitions
Martínez-Patiño et al. / Gender verification in top level competitions JOURNAL OF HUMAN SPORT & EXERCISE – VOLUME 5 | ISSUE 3 | 2010 |

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Genel when referring to Santhi’s case at the Asian Games December 2006 in Doha:
“My suspicion is that she has one of these rare disorders of sexual development,” Genel said. “The way it was handled with all the publicity was totally inappropriate. Part of the rationale to come up with concrete procedures was to avoid this.”

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Published March 18th, 2011

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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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CBC’s The Passionate Eye – Too Fast to Be a Woman
Wednesday March 9 at 10 pm ET/PT & Saturday March 12 at 7 pm ET on CBC News Network

As Caster Semenya achieved her dream of winning the 800m World Championship in 2009, rumours of a failed gender test spread. A vicious and voyeuristic media storm erupted and Caster’s triumph was turned into public humiliation. With exclusive access, this film follows the shy teenager from a remote South African village as she struggles to come to terms with what has happened and fights to return to competition.

With the support of her family, and a top legal team, Caster takes the fight to the IAAF, the world’s leading body for the sport of athletics. As international lawyers and eminent scientists thrash out what it means to be a woman, the 19 year old at the centre of the storm wants only to run. A heart-rending and uplifting story of a young woman who overcame incredible odds to become the world’s best, only to find that her biggest challenge still lay ahead.

Produced and Directed by MAXX GINNANE, Rise Films Ltd., for the BBC.

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As a personal note, the Canadian connection, and Canada’s commitment and engagement to stopping the horrible acts carried out by false developed policy against women leading to HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE AND RAPE by the IOC/IAAF over several decades, touching on the extreme simple and vulnerability of the women, Caster, Santhi Soundarajan and other great women and athletes who lives have been devastated do to the “social ignorance” of the IOC/IAAF as it relates to gender.  The women, coming from rural areas of their countries – and the viciousness and vulnerability to an athlete is massive, with little to no recoil with those who committed the harm in the first place. Now with the understanding, their policies and practices prove nothing other then great harm.

It is important to note with all the sensational reporting that created a hyperbole of hysteria of a global proportion in international sport never seen in our history. Experts and international sport those engaged behind the scenes for the 11 month period recognize the IOC/IAAF had committed tragically the worst human rights abuse and rape of young healthy women in international sport history.

We have ethical protocol, set standards and guidelines through our universal anti-doping program citing the highest standards, to protect the very identities of athletes who are using drugs and other techniques to cheat the sports system. In-fact, millions of dollars are paid to the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) by governments around the world as part of the commitment to the Olympic family. But when it comes to a person(s) gender, the most private and very essence of a human being, we project globally – The IAAF goes even one step further Friday September 11th, 2009, STATEMENT ON CASTER SEMENYA, creating a Press Release of her very personal matter making it the worlds business.  Where in-fact in the end, sadly none of it was true.  Only to be seen as furthering the tragedy, moreover the incompetence, lacking ethics and accountability of the IAAF and IOC, and assuring Caster the athletes privacy and her protection.

The production touches on IOC/IAAF did not want to see this go to court, as it would open pandora’s box, regarding gender testing and the history and impact on dozens of women, over several decades. The hesitation of Caster’s reinstatement back into World Athletics had nothing in-fact to with Caster. But all to do with the IOC/IAAF concerns of the public awareness in-fact what they had done to her and women before her. Hence the (2) line press release by the IAAF the first week of Tuesday July 6th, 2010, releasing Caster into competition anywhere in the world, without any explanation from the IAAF.

Logistically for the IOC and IAAF, a public relations nightmare was about to unravel for them. Ironically, if there is any found humour in any of this, sadly they got caught up in their own policies and practices around gender, gender verification testing and Stockholm Consensus, committing the offenses themselves.

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We society, sport leaders and media let it happen, thinking the IOC and IAAF new what they were doing. In-fact, we accepted and we felt we could punish the athletes and felt we even had a right to do it, for (their) normal human difference due to our own ignorance.  In-fact like so many athletes, Caster being one of them deserved it!

It is the IOC and IAAF that need to be punished and held accountable now, not the athletes. This is a man-made issue at the highest level of international sport.

THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE… AND CANADA IS LEADING THE CHARGE! AWESOME!

This production put a smile on my face, and to know having such amazing effect and reaching those and making a difference for those around the world.

HUMAN DIVERSITY IN EACH ONE OF US IS TO BE CELEBRATED!

I don’t say this very often as there has been few well-done productions that articulate the issues accurately around gender in sport –

Bravo CBC and BBC! GO CANADA GO!

We will TOGETHER stop this, and assure safety and inclusion for all to participate in sport and in society, no matter ones individual diversity.  This will only happen through a collective effort and education on how we understand NORMAL human development and what “diversity” really means.

Caster will be the last woman this will ever happen too!

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Published March 13th, 2011

Public Health Agency of Canada
Questions & Answers: Gender Identity in Schools

First published in 1994 and revised in 2003 and 2008, the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education (Guidelines) were developed to assist professionals working in the area of health promotion and sexual health education in programming which supports positive sexual health outcomes. Feedback from a national evaluation of the Guidelines indicated the need for companion documents to provide more detailed information,,evidence and resources on specific issues. In response, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) identified a ‘question and answer’ format as an appropriate way to provide information to educators and other professional working with school aged populations. The Questions and Answers styled documents are intended to cover a range of topics reflecting current issues in sexual health education with school-aged populations, are evidence-based and use inclusive language as reflected in the Guidelines.

This document, Questions & Answers: Gender Identity in Schools, is intended to address the most commonly asked questions regarding the gender identity of youth in school settings.  The goal of this resource is to assist educators, curriculum and program planners, school administrators, policy-makers and health professionals in the creation of supportive and healthy school environments for youth struggling with issues of gender identity.
Revised Document Published – April 8th, 2010

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Congratulations to Michael Whan (Chair) LPGA, Athletes, Coaches and LET Touring Professional Mianne Bagger.

A huge thank-you to Michael for his leadership and the LPGA community for their courage and commitment to facilitate greater awareness and social change, that is dynamically occurring in international sport around the world on how we as a ONE society TOGETHER understanding our individual diversities, cultural, social and physical differences which embraces each one of us.  Understanding as a global society, we have way more in common then we do difference. No matter the colour of ones skin, culture, sexuality, gender and or physical needs, that each one of us is unique and special.  As today, was yet another example by many around the world in our global system taking steps to removing the boxes and stereotypes that divide us as a society and taking a moment to understand and appreciate each person(s) diversity – as each one of us has a story, no greater or less than anyone else as part of the greater NORMAL.

The LPGA recognizes they are not alone, but has become part of a greater family today within international sport, committed to sport and greater social inclusion. Moreover understanding the power of sport off the playing field, on how far reaching it can be to bring greater social awareness and change effecting millions of lives so positively around the world.

WELCOME LPGA TO THE GLOBAL TEAM!

One other comment I feel is fitting personally, as I would like to dedicate this moment to game of golf’s pioneer, Ms. Mianne Bagger. Who since 2002, courageously on her own stepped into the world of professional golf as the pioneer on her own with no support.  With absolute grace, composure, professionalism and leadership, Mianne  has brought great understanding and embrace, bring  change to policy in (4) of the (5) professional tours since she became a professional.  Through Mianne’s career, she has educated and created a language where athletes around the game of golf, other professional sports as well sport international leaders, embrace her for what she has done and given of herself to the game of golf and international sport, to drive social change on how we understand diversity.

There are few people I know or have met like her in my lifetime.  A true champion in every respect, recognizing here accomplishments and legacy to the game of golf will one be her great game play on the course, but as well off the course, the lasting effects and greatest contribution will be the laying of the foundation for young athletes that come behind her, that their individual diversity will not prevent them from seeking their dreams  and participating in the game of golf or any other sport.

Janice Moodie LPGA Tour player said in a Golf Digest Interview on December 1st, proceeding the vote;

“The girl on the Ladies European Tour [Mianne Bagger]  is really nice, and I don’t think there seems to be an issue over there,”

Mianne, has been a courageous face and professional for the game of golf at every level around the world, carrying and respecting the game she so passionately loves and those within it, and continues to play as a touring professional.

I am honored to know her, and to work with her professionally and continue to bring greater education, language and universal awareness around diversity in international sport around the world.

Brilliants in sport occurs in many ways – and this is on of those moments. Congratulations and thank-you ALL for your courage, expertise and commitment to social ethics and inclusion, and a sports system that properly reflects our dynamic, diverse and ever changing global society.

Professional Regards,

Kristen Worley
Canadian High Performance Track Cyclist

Lawless’ Legal Case Against the LPGA “Appalling”. NOT a “transgender” issue, but one of Education, Language and Social Ethics.

I woke this morning, deeply disturbed by what I was reading in USA Today titled;
“Lana Lawless’ suit puts gender in sports in spotlight again”.

Sadly, what journalist Douglas Robson wrote is NOT factual and untrue.  There is great work going on behind the scenes internationally. Saying this, since Mr. Robson felt he could use my name and Mianne Bagger’s and write about us which is also untrue (not thinking the impact on us to be presumed associated let alone how we felt about it – god forbid you actually ask the athletes), as neither of us are “transgendered”. Furthermore do NOT approve of Lana Lawless’ efforts to sue a private organization such as the LPGA because she wishes to play in women’s golf in the United States.

In the real world it does not work this way. We live in a world of give-and-take, of which Mianne and I have worked tirelessly over many years with sports leaders and experts around the world behind the scenes with the leaderships of Canada to drive universal change through research and language, of which diversity effect’s each person as EQUALS.

This is a continuum of a much greater social ethics issue, NOT a “transgender” issue as is being presented and great example yet again, of our societies inability to understand ‘NORMAL’ human difference because of lacking education, to appreciate each one of is diverse either it be cultural, social or physical, or a combination there of which effects each one of us universally around the world.

Working behind the scenes, with international leaders from around the world get this very clearly. But it is incidents and articles just like this that is a proven example of how hatred and violence towards those most vulnerable in society are portrayed, and that because of our societies lacking understanding impacts their lives greatly.

I want to make very clear;

“I do NOT support Lana Lawless, as you do not sue a private organization because you feel you deserve something and suggesting this is a “human right”. The world does not work that way – This is an education issue, NOT a human right issue. EFFECTIVE CHANGE comes through EDUCATION and GREATER LANGUAGE, bringing together expertise with a broader brush approach, as DIVERSITY effect’s each one of us EQUALLY –

You get a lot more bees with honey.

It is being presumed we are the “SAME” in the media because one has transitioned in their life.  It is like saying because I was a breast cancer survivor as was another girlfriend of mine, one that our experience was the same dealing with it, and that our lives are the same as well too.  That is just not so for anyone. Moreover, Ms. Lawless and Ms. Richard’s  are (2) generations older than either me or Mianne. Our experiences are very very different in EVERY way.

Our goals are to create awareness and support of young people and their families to help empower and educate to create opportunities, education and language as equal participants through extensive leadership bringing global stakeholders together in and out sport to change the NORMAL of greater society which effects each one of us.

IT TAKES TEAM WORK BY EVERYONE.”

Continue reading ‘Lawless’ Legal Case Against the LPGA “Appalling”. NOT a “transgender” issue, but one of Education, Language and Social Ethics.’

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Keynote Panelist
Gender Issues in Sport Summit – September 6th and & 7th, 2010.

Gender identification, intersex types, inclusion, discrimination, gender testing science and health, legal and policy impact, and future directions.

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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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CTV National News – Kristen’s live interview in response to Caster Semenya from South Africa, 800m runner - Canadian elite track cyclist Kristen Worley says the decision is a big victory for advocates and gender variant/intersex athletes, but she is still concerned by all the speculation over the gender tests.

Thursday November 19th, 2009
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CBC Radio One “The Current” Monday September 21st, 2009

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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

Key reference articles dating back from December 2006, when Santhi Soundarajan was publicly humiliated by IAAF and IOC officials after the Asian Games.

Important to note, in response to Jacques Rogge’s to the Associated Press (AP) on September 14, 2009 making this case solely a IAAF problem.  When you read these key references below, you will see in contrast of his response that this has been going on for several years, and he has been made aware of it on several occasions acknowledging in-fact this is an IOC problem, and has been for decades, and has profoundly impacted women’s sport, women’s sport development since women’s participation in elite and Olympic sport, with direct ties to Dr. Arne Ljungqvist, the creator of gender testing/sex testing in women’s sport. Designed to catch “genuine sex impostors”, which has never happened in the history Olympic sport, creating only myths, undo hysteria and greater social ignorance of the vast normal physiological differences in human development in both women and men participating within sport.

Ljungqvist’s career in sport, started as chief medical director and vice-president of the IAAF at the same time chairman of the IOC Medical Commission. Just recently, retired from the IAAF, maintaining his position chairman of the IOC Medical Commission and new appointment as vice-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).  It is important to note prior to Ljungqvist leaving the IAAF, many months after the incident with Santhi at the Asian Games, Ljungqvist had suggested publicly and to the media that, “he would be investigating Santhi’s case personally.” Ljungqvist… Did nothing, as the worlds highest ranking medical official within both the IAAF and IOC.  Knowing in 06/07 the IAAF gender policy supports and states clearly women athletes with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS).  It is documented in the IAAF policy very clearly, proven how disadvantaged the athlete is and this is no issue and nor to be contested.

Santhi was sex tested, and her silver medal in the women’s 800m event was removed.  She was then banished from track and field forever, never able to seek and complete her dreams as one of the worlds leading women’s 800m runners.  A stepping stone to the Beijing Olympics and representing her country of India. Santhi should have run in Beijing.

Instead cruelly, the IOC and IAAF left her to be the martyr of gender testing, and a symbol of their failing.

Ljungqvist left Santhi to fend for herself to be literally raped by the world media, thus attempting suicide do to the repercussions and humiliation created by the worldwide attention and media she received, making like she deserved it and was a cheater, when in-fact none of this was so, and should have never happened.

This is a severe ethics problem in leadership of the International sport system as (3) athletes in just 2 years have been publicly humiliated like Caster has been, and (9) athletes in 4 years have received similar repercussions.  Solely based on ignorance, provoked intentionally by the IOC Medical Commission directors. When asking Patrick Schamasch IOC Medical Commission president in September 2006, he admitted when asked for the science/research to back their policy, they did not have the science nor research to support their policies on these very issues and saying, “I don’t care”  if he had it right or not to Canadian sport officials. Patrick continued to say, when asked about sex testing, “Kristen, we told the world we stopped sex testing pre-2000, but we still do it…”. He said, “I can do whatever I want…. Kristen, you come to 2008 games, you play by my rules…”.

As the world of sport has now seen in a very short time span of just the last 2 years, impacting and destroying (3) athletes lives and athletic careers as we have now seen once again with Caster.

Watch CTV National News Live Interview – Kristen’s response to IAAF and IOC.

Friday September 11, 2009

Jacques Rogge is trying to wash his hands of the worst of sport and humanity we have ever seen, knowing this has been going on for years.

Please do not allow him to attempt to confuse you as he is trying to do, and allow him and his colleagues at the IOC Medical Commission wash their hands of these human rights abuses, unethical practices and inhumane treatment of women.  What has happened to Caster is crimminal and the IOC is not above the law of the rest of society.

This is our chance to change international sport, protect and empower young women, saying “No More IOC”, and you will be made accountable for what has happened to Caster Semeneya, Santhi Soundarajan and the many women publicly Raped and Humiliated by these men, who until now as a singular entity have been able to shape our global sports system with so little regard and accountability.

“This past month we watched the complete destruction of a human-being, and were responsible for it”
Dr. Kevin Wamsley, Dean of Humanities University of Western Ontario, Canada.
CBC National News, Friday September 11th, 2009.

Hence the work and efforts going on in Canada to prevent further impact on future athletes, ensuring an educational, protective, inclusionary, comprehensive and universal sports system.

I ask the International media to reflect on these references below, and not take Jacques Rogge’s comments at face value, because that is all it is.  There is nothing behind the brand in regards to these issues, and the IOC has failed the worlds sports system and global society to better understand broad diversity in all women and men that each one of us share these normal differences and human development together.

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

CTV National News – Kristen’s live interview in response to Caster Semenya from South Africa, 800m runner - IAAF’s release of her medical information publicly and the IAAF’s and IOC continued poor handling of these issues.

Friday September 11th, 2009

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