A Handful of Stories

Reportage on health, science and politics. And some meditations on film

Tag: gender

The Stories Before Imane Khelif

The Long and Troubling History of Sex Testing in Sport, a Practice Reserved Exclusively for Female Competitors Competitive sport has a long and unsettling history of forcing women athletes to prove their womanhood. Compulsory sex testing was introduced at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest, which required women to walk in the nude before a group of gynaecologists. One…