Tested (Ep 1): The Choice

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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New from NPR's Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field authorities announced new regulations that mean some women can't compete in the female category unless they lower their body's naturally occurring testosterone levels. You'll meet one of those runners, Christine Mboma, a reigning Olympic silver medalist, and hear about the difficult choice she faces. Tested is a six-part series, you can binge all the episodes now in the Embedded podcast and the CBC feed.

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0:14.8	Hi, invisibility listeners. I'm Rose Evele,
0:18.1	the host of a new series from The Embedded Podcast,
0:20.9	NPR's home for serialized documentary storytelling, and our partner,
0:25.0	C.C. in Canada. The series is called Tested, and I want you to hear it because it shares some
0:31.0	DNA with invisibility.
0:33.0	The show explores an idea that might be familiar
0:35.5	to long time listeners.
0:37.5	The impulse to categorize, to stick people in boxes
0:41.3	in order to make sense of the world.
0:43.3	In this case, those boxes are the gender binary,
0:46.5	male and female.
0:49.1	Tested is about sex testing in elite sports,
0:52.1	a practice that has a long sorted history.
0:55.7	And that is still happening today.
0:58.0	If you paid attention to the Summer Olympics in Paris, you probably heard about the so-called
1:02.1	scandal involving two female boxers.
1:05.2	These two women who both went on to win gold in their weight classes were inundated
1:10.3	with hateful commentary. All of these untrue claims that they are somehow men, unfairly
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