Gender and sport - Topics

Are mixed-gender competition formats the next big change? Are Olympic sports required to run men's and women's events Who pays for the court cases over transgender participation? Why do eligibility disputes in team sports stay quieter than in individual events? Why does every sport set a different transgender inclusion rule? Why was the testosterone limit dropped for some events but not others? What happens when a country's law and a federation's eligibility rule disagree? What did sex testing look like before it was called gender verification? How do federations actually decide who counts as a woman for competition? How did Caster Semenya's case rewrite the 800m eligibility rules? How do intersex athletes fit into eligibility rules built for two categories? Do eligibility rules based on testosterone hold up in court? What does the evidence really say about testosterone and athletic advantage? What medical information must an athlete hand over to enter a women's event? Does a self-identification rule change the elite women's category? How do school and grassroots sports handle gender categories differently from elite sport? Why do proposals for mixed-gender sports events struggle to get approved?