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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women's category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. As the Olympics approach, they face hard choices: take drugs to lower their natural testosterone levels, give up their sport entirely, or fight. To understand how we got here, we trace the surprising, 100-year history of sex testing. Tested is a new 6-part series from NPR's Embedded and CBC. Hosted by journalist Rose Eveleth, it launches July 15, ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games. Embedded+ supporters enjoy early and ad-free access.

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0:27.3	In a few weeks, hundreds of women will go to Paris to compete for Olympic gold.
0:33.0	Here we go, The setting is ready for the final of the women's 200 meters.
0:38.0	They train for years to get to this point.
0:41.0	You're not going to give up. There will be drama. I'm a bomb but she's pulled up.
0:45.8	Oh we didn't want to see that did we? There will be glory.
0:53.0	But there was a time, not that long ago,
0:57.0	when being an elite female athlete
0:59.0	required something more than training, talent, and grit.
1:04.0	It required a certificate.
1:06.4	We got to carry a card that said, I am female.
1:10.2	A certificate of Femininity.
1:17.0	A Little Tiny Card, like a business card. Here's my business card. I'm female.
1:19.0	For 30 years, from the 1960s to the 90s,
1:23.4	sports officials gave out these cards
1:25.8	after checking the best female athletes in the world,
1:30.0	testing them to confirm that they were, in fact, female.
1:35.0	I remember thinking, whoa, this seems a little invasive.
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