{"id":11979,"date":"2024-08-08T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:05:32","slug":"controversy-over-sex-testing-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11979","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Over Sex-Testing in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/controversy-over-sex-testing-in-sports\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/controversy-over-sex-testing-in-sports\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The controversy over a biological male competing in a women\u2019s boxing event highlights the need for the Olympics to return to a sex-testing standard. A Wisconsin Right Now opinion piece notes that the Olympics abandoned sex-testing in nineteen ninety-nine. From ninety-two to ninety-nine, all women were screened via a DNA test at the games. In the current games, according to the International Olympic Committee, at least for boxing, the gender of athletes has been based on their passports.<\/p>\n<p>I remember Wisconsin\u2019s own Olympic champion Bonnie Blair telling us at press conference in support of a Protect Women\u2019s Sports bill a couple of years ago that she had to pass a DNA test at the Olympics to verify she was female. Blair understood in a profound way that a sporting contest is inherently unfair if biological males are allowed to compete with biological females<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/controversy-over-sex-testing-in-sports\/ The controversy over a biological male competing in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11980,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions\/11980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}