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Katrina Karkazis

Katrina Karkazis is a senior research visiting fellow in the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale University and the author of Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

July 2021

  • Caster Semenya (C) competes in the women's 200m final during the Athletics Gauteng North Championships at the LC de Villiers Athletics Stadium in Pretoria on 13 March 2020

    Science Weekly
    Testosterone in women’s athletics - podcast

    Katrina Karkazis, a professor of sexuality, women’s and gender studies, specialising in ‘sex testing’ and sport regulations speaks to Shivani Dave about the rules that ban female athletes with naturally high testosterone

March 2019

  • Caster Semenya

    Stop talking about testosterone – there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex’

    Katrina Karkazis
    Sports bodies want a biological criterion to indicate an athlete’s sex. But it’s far more complicated than that, writes academic Katrina Karkazis

April 2018

  • Caster Semenya of South Africa, silver medallist Margaret Nyairera Wambui of Kenya and Natoya Goule of Jamaica at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

    The treatment of Caster Semenya shows athletics' bias against women of colour

    Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young
    ‘Sex-testing’ rules on testosterone levels in female athletes disproportionately affect athletes from the global south, say academics Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young

August 2016

  • Olympic Games 2016 Athletics, Track and Field<br>epa05504146 Caster Semenya (R) of South Africa reacts next to Melissa Bishop (L) of Canada and Lynsey Sharp (C) of Britain after winning the women's 800m final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Athletics, Track and Field events at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 August 2016. EPA/ANTONIO LACERDA

    The ignorance aimed at Caster Semenya flies in the face of the Olympic spirit

    Katrina Karkazis
    In pressing their case on hyperandrogenic athletes the IAAF have ensured hostile scrutiny will always fall on women who defy norms imposed by the powerful

July 2012

  • Womens 100m Finals, Athens 2004

    The IOC's superwoman complex: how flawed sex-testing discriminates

    Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis

    Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis: Behind the IOC's new policy on male-female testosterone levels is plain bias about what a female athlete should look like

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