Gender & Sports Conference Topics
According to Luisa Yanez at The Miami Herald, A female athlete wins an Olympic gold medal, but later a sexual verification test detects she has the testosterone levels of a man.
What action does the International Olympic Committee take?
Two faculty members from Florida International University’s new medical school will help set the framework on how to tackle such cases in future elite international athletic competitions.
Genetics professors Joe Leigh Simpson and Maria New from FIU’s Wertheim College of Medicine are hosting the groundbreaking second annual World Conference on Genetic and Hormonal Basis of Sexual Differentiation Disorders on Jan. 15-18 at Miami Beach’s Eden Roc Hotel.
The conference brings together scientists and physicians who deal with sex differentiation disorders, including hormone issues, genetics and sexual psychology.
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Lyndon Evans
The sports world needs to look very hard at not only issues of gender (identity/roles/expression) but also the homophobic culture created in athletics. This should be interesting.
Justice Calo Reign — December 30, 2009 @ 1:44 pm