Alice Dreger
About Alice Dreger
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Who Should Count as a Woman on the Playing Field? The Question of Intersex and Trans in Sports
This talk begins with a review of how many sports have historically been divided by gender (man/woman), although we’ve generally pretended the division is by sex (male/female). The more that we learn about gender and sex, the more we know the drawing sex and gender divisions is not so easy. So what should happen in sports? This lecture explores this question, taking into account biology, the nature of sport (including the value of fairness), and social justice concerns. The speaker, who has consulted on this question with the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission, will parse out the issues and offer a few possible solutions.
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'Ghosting The News' Author Says Local Journalism 'Freefall' Is ...
and an author, Alice Dreger. And she said that, you know, she lives in East Lansing, Mich. She felt that Lansing, which is a neighboring city, had pretty good ...
'Ghosting the News': Margaret Sullivan's Alarm Bell - The Atlantic
Sullivan offers a miniature profile of Alice Dreger, a former professor at Michigan State University, who responded to the stark reduction of news coverage of her ...
'Galileo's Middle Finger,' by Alice Dreger - The New York Times
“Galileo's Middle Finger” is many things: a rant, a manifesto, a treasury of evocative new terms (sissyphobia, autogynephilia, phall-o-meter) and an account of ...
The Big Problem With Outlawing Gender Conversion Therapies ...
Can we respect the expressions of gender-crossing children without being so “ affirming” of their declarations that we accidentally steer them to a transgender ...
Books by Alice Dreger
“Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice” (2016)
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