{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What Makes a Woman in Women\u2019s Sports? ","description":"When women first began competing in elite sports, an important question cropped up: who exactly is a woman? Fears that men would simply plop on a wig and a petticoat in order to compete, to the perceived disadvantage of women, arose, and sporting officials began checking the gender of competitor.    What started as so-called \u201cnaked parades\u201d has morphed into a pseudoscience of hormone testing, clitoris measuring, and suspicion-based investigating. Like many aspects of gender, these cases aren\u2019t simple\u2014as a decade of controversy surrounding South African runner Caster Semenya has shown.   For today\u2019s discussion on sports and hormones Katrina Karkazis. She\u2019s the co-author of \u201cTestosterone: An Unauthorized Biography.\u201d She\u2019s also the Senior Visiting Fellow at the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale University and the Carol Zicklin chair at Brooklyn College.   For more information on today\u2019s episode visit helloclue.com\/hormonal. And to find out how to support the work here at Clue, go to Clue.Plus.  Want to know the answer to the question at the beginning of the show? Check out Let\u2019s talk about squirting: Why is it important, and what does it feel like? on helloclue.com.   Background Reading:  Helloclue: What puberty is like as an intersex person ","author_name":"Hormonal","author_url":"https:\/\/helloclue.com\/podcast\/hormonal-podcast-clue","html":"