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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled women with naturally higher levels of testosterone cannot compete in women’s sport events unless they reduce their testosterone with medication. CAS was hearing an appeal by a South African runner, Caster Semenya, against a ruling by the governing body of athletics, the IAAF, that she cannot compete in certain events having been born with a condition leading to unusually high testosterone levels. What does this mean for elite sport? And can we separate sports from other areas of society in which discrimination against people with different sexual developments is taboo?
DR CARLTON BRICK
lecturer in sociology, School of Media, Culture and Society, University of the West of Scotland
DR SILVIA CAMPORESI
director of bioethics and society postgraduate programme, King’s College London; co-author, Bioethics, Genetics and Sport
GEORGINA NEWCOMBE
student, Durham University; athlete and footballer; Living Freedom alumnus
DR JOEL NATHAN ROSEN
associate professor of sociology and anthropology, Moravian College; author, The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos
DR EMILY RYALL
reader in applied philosophy, University of Gloucestershire; author, Philosophy of Sport: key questions
CHAIR: GEOFF KIDDER
director, membership and events, Academy of Ideas; convenor, AoI Book Club
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