The End of Compulsory Gender Verification: Is It Progress for Inclusion of Women in Sports?
| Autor: | María José Martínez-Patiño, Jonathan Ospina-Betancurt, Eric Vilain |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Court of Arbitration for Sport
Disorders of sex development Inclusion (disability rights) media_common.quotation_subject Eligibility Determination Context (language use) Anxiety Collective memory Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Argument Gender policies Humans Caster Semenya International Association of Athletics Federations History of sport Track and field athletics General Psychology media_common Women’s athletics Gender studies Deporte Athletes Elite Derechos de la mujer Commentary Female Psychology Hyperandrogenism Publicity Sports |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Sexual Behavior ABACUS. Repositorio de Producción Científica Universidad Europea (UEM) |
| ISSN: | 1573-2800 |
| Popis: | Recently, the so-called Semenya case has brought the problem of gender in sports competitions back into the spotlight. But the fact is that it is not a unique case; rather, it seems a recurrent and inconclusive problem in the history of sports. In this context, the Spanish athlete Martínez-Patiño is an important figure in the history of sport and gender verification, as well as the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand. Martínez-Patiño’s story thus serves as an important case study of the gender-based anxieties that hampered women’s advancement in track and field. Martínez-Patiño’s experience in Spanish athletics demonstrates the difficulties women faced when attempting to compete in track and field, both in Spain and internationally. Moreover, her experience with gender policies shows the inadequacies of the chromosomal check as a sex marker, as well as the harms caused by the technique. Finally, Martínez-Patiño’s protest of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ policy started to dismantle compulsory sex verification used as a criterion for gender eligibility. The publicity surrounding her case pushed the track and field federation to abandon mandatory, on-site testing in 1992. Seven years later, the International Olympic Committee also dropped its compulsory control. Martínez-Patiño became the face of the fight against sex/gender verification in sport and helped dismantle the practice. The case of Martinez-Patiño remains in the collective memory of elite sports and serves as an argument for national and international sporting institutions to reconsider discriminating policies in the context of progress being made for women’s rights. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científcas (CSIC) (PID2019-105428RB-I00) “Hybrid epistemologies: bodies, biometrics and assemblies” and CNRS laboratory IRL 2006 “Epigenetics, Data, Politics.” 4.507 JCR (2020) Q1, 25/130 Psychology, Clinical 1.288 SJR (2020) Q1, 39/475 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) No data IDR 2020 UEM |
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