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Today’s sex testing policies in women’s sports have roots going back 100 years : Embedded : NPR
Tested ep 02
Dani Pendergast for NPR
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Dani Pendergast for NPR
Episode 2: We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women’s inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism resulted in the first policies requiring sex testing.
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