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- The authors analyze a historical DNA case highlighting how a female athlete may unknowingly face challenges related to hyperandrogenism due to a disorder of sex development.
- These challenges complicate the discourse around sex and gender in sports, particularly regarding performance impacted by testosterone levels.
- They suggest that using testosterone levels could provide a more objective criterion for determining athlete eligibility, potentially avoiding complex and harmful verification processes.
Article Abstract
Based on DNA analysis of a historical case, the authors describe how a female athlete can be unknowingly confronted with the consequences of a disorder of sex development resulting in hyperandrogenism emerging early in her sports career. In such a situation, it is harmful and confusing to question sex and gender. Exposure to either a low or high level of endogenous testosterone from puberty is a decisive factor with respect to sexual dimorphism of physical performance. Yet, measurement of testosterone is not the means by which questions of an athlete's eligibility to compete with either women or men are resolved. The authors discuss that it might be justifiable to use the circulating testosterone level as an endocrinological parameter, to try to arrive at an objective criterion in evaluating what separates women and men in sports competitions, which could prevent the initiation of complicated, lengthy and damaging sex and gender verification procedures.
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