Peter Frick-Wright (Host): This is the Outside Podcast
Last year, in March, track and field authorities announced new regulations: some athletes wouldn’t be able to compete in the female category unless they lowered their body’s naturally occurring testosterone levels.
These are not athletes who have artificially raised their body’s testosterone levels. These are also not athletes who present as male but identify as female, or athletes who underwent any kind of gender transition or reassignment surgery. Many of the people that this new rule affects, didn’t even know that they had high testosterone.
The regulations were and are controversial, and it left some athletes with a choice between artificially suppressing their hormones, and sitting out the Olympics.
So when I heard that the CBC was making a podcast all about this exact thing, called Tested, and that the host of this podcast was Rose Evelyth—who is super creative and fun and has produced really awesome stuff like ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast, and Flash Forward, which is an audio drama about technology from the future—I jumped at the chance to share an episode here.
You can find a link to the full series in the show notes. Here’s Rose.
Rose Eveleth: Sometimes the best way to begin a complicated story…
