Forced Gene Testing and Surgery

IOC resumes harmful sex gene testing; forced c-sections with zoom court rooms; The Lancet profiles our host!; A woman goes to the moon; Alyssa recommends bioethics books

The Lancet profiles Arghavan!

Sally Ride, 100 tampons (song)

IOC sex testing

• International Olympic Committee’s new policy 
• Andrew Sinclair’s essay 
• Tested podcast 
• Caster Semenya
• Imane Khelif
• Eero Mäntyranta
• Steven van de Velde allowed to compete in 2024
• Fact Check: The Namibian runner is Christine, not Christina, Mboma.

Forced C-sections

• Court ordered C-sections & hearings
• Rinat Dray
• Refusal of Medically Recommended Treatment During Pregnancy

Book recommendations

• Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography 
• Policing the Womb
• Medical Bondage
• Radical Reproductive Justice
• Fatal Invention 
• Killing the Black Body 
• Medical Apartheid

💊Take Two and Call Me in the Morning💊

• Dogs
• Kit Kat heist
• Geese migration
• Steller Sea Lions

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Credits

• Production by Arghavan Salles & Alyssa Burgart
• Editing by Alyssa Burgart
• Theme Music by Joseph Uphoff
• Social Media by Arghavan Salles