All original material © Alice Domurat Dreger, 1996-2009.

If you’re a reporter, please see my media advisory with FAQs on this topic. You can also check out my series of three analyses in the New York Times:

  1. 1.Where’s the Rulebook for Sex Verification?

  2. 2.Science is Forcing Sports to Re-Examine Their Core Principles

  3. 3.The Sex of Athletes: One Issue, Many Variables


I also recommend:

  1. Alice Dreger, Intersex and Sports: Back to the Same Old Game, Bioethics Forum

  2. Ariel Levy, Either/Or, The New Yorker

  3. David Farenthold, Which Side Are You On?, Washington Post

  4. Kevin Blackistone, A Plea to Respect Semenya’s Dignity, at Fanhouse (highly recommended entry)

  5. Elizabeth Reis, Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner, at History News Service (highly recommended entry)

  6. Joseph Huff-Hannon, Don’t Call Them Hermaphrodites, at The Daily Beast (highly recommended entry)

  7. My interview with Runner’s World

  8. “Gender Test After a Gold-Medal Finish,” Christopher Clarey, New York Times

  9. my “Good Morning America” appearance on sex-testing in sports, plus related article

  10. “Olympic Problems with Sex Testing,” Alice Dreger, Bioethics Forum

  11. “A Lab Is Set to Test the Gender of Some Female Athletes,” Katie Thomas, New York Times

Want more understanding of what I mean when I say sex categories are established by social decision, not by simple science? Read this.

Sex-Testing in Sports