Did anyone see this terrible ESPN Article?
http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commentary...guidelines
I guess then paternity tests are sexist as well because we don't do maternity tests.
Excerpt:
"But it is the equivalent of security screening; "random selection" is rarely random, but often just a license to profile. As Mark Leather, the head of performance for the Bolton Wanderers of the English Premier League, told The Guardian: "I've never come across testing being carried out for men. The footballing authorities don't make the men do any."
Stanford University bioethicist Katrina Karkazis also weighs in: "That's a red herring. Historically, these policies have only ever applied to women. And there is no reason to think, given that history, that they exist to apply to men."
That's because they don't apply to men. And why don't they? Probably because if a male athlete tested outside whatever range FIFA deemed as "normal for a man," he wouldn't be seen as having an advantage. Like, in any way. At all.
Think about the subliminal message here: Being a woman -- or even like a woman -- is essentially a disadvantage. And being "like a man" is supposedly so advantageous that FIFA has created a policy to expose any female athlete deemed "too manly."
At its core, this is gender policing of women. And FIFA isn't really trying to hide it. The International Olympic Committee at least changed the language in its policy -- a bit of semantics that, at first glance, makes the IOC seem less discriminatory (spoiler alert: It's not).
The IOC policy now focuses on "female hyperandrogenism" -- an excess of naturally occurring testosterone -- and argues that this gives women an unfair advantage. The policy on FIFA's books doesn't pretend to be anything other than sex testing, and FIFA even says associations should verify gender by "actively investigating any perceived deviation in sex characteristics."
"FIFA is back in the stone age because they're actually saying this is essentially a sex test," says Karkazis, an expert on the IOC's testing policies. "It explicitly says if they conclude that a woman is not the 'gender' she says she is, she'll be referred to the Disciplinary Committee. This means they can tell women who have lived and competed as women their entire lives they're not women. If you refuse to undergo exams or hand over medical records, you'll be suspended. It's sex determination."
http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commentary...guidelines
I guess then paternity tests are sexist as well because we don't do maternity tests.
Excerpt:
"But it is the equivalent of security screening; "random selection" is rarely random, but often just a license to profile. As Mark Leather, the head of performance for the Bolton Wanderers of the English Premier League, told The Guardian: "I've never come across testing being carried out for men. The footballing authorities don't make the men do any."
Stanford University bioethicist Katrina Karkazis also weighs in: "That's a red herring. Historically, these policies have only ever applied to women. And there is no reason to think, given that history, that they exist to apply to men."
That's because they don't apply to men. And why don't they? Probably because if a male athlete tested outside whatever range FIFA deemed as "normal for a man," he wouldn't be seen as having an advantage. Like, in any way. At all.
Think about the subliminal message here: Being a woman -- or even like a woman -- is essentially a disadvantage. And being "like a man" is supposedly so advantageous that FIFA has created a policy to expose any female athlete deemed "too manly."
At its core, this is gender policing of women. And FIFA isn't really trying to hide it. The International Olympic Committee at least changed the language in its policy -- a bit of semantics that, at first glance, makes the IOC seem less discriminatory (spoiler alert: It's not).
The IOC policy now focuses on "female hyperandrogenism" -- an excess of naturally occurring testosterone -- and argues that this gives women an unfair advantage. The policy on FIFA's books doesn't pretend to be anything other than sex testing, and FIFA even says associations should verify gender by "actively investigating any perceived deviation in sex characteristics."
"FIFA is back in the stone age because they're actually saying this is essentially a sex test," says Karkazis, an expert on the IOC's testing policies. "It explicitly says if they conclude that a woman is not the 'gender' she says she is, she'll be referred to the Disciplinary Committee. This means they can tell women who have lived and competed as women their entire lives they're not women. If you refuse to undergo exams or hand over medical records, you'll be suspended. It's sex determination."
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Where everyone gets an equal opportunity to play despite their age, race or gender and everyone gets a participation medal. How fun would that be to watch?
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