Testosterone. An Unauthorized Biography: The Athletics Dimension A talk by Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis With a respondence by Karolin Heckemeyer

May 2019, the Court of Arbitra- with the tion for Sport ruled that female Against this backdrop of athletes with naturally elevated Semenya‘s case and the scien- levels of testosterone could tific and historical complexity not compete as women unless of „gender verification“ in elite they made efforts to reduce the

Sigrid Schmitz sports, Rebecca Jordan Young hormone in their bodies. The and Katrina Karkazis will ques- ruling came in a case brought tion these new sports policies by the middle-distance runner within an intersectional frame- (2009) against work of feminist science studies the International Association of and sociopolitics and will take Athletics Federations that chal- up the discussion of their newest lenged longstanding myths book, Testosterone: An about the presumed masculinity Unauthorized Biography, Harvard of testosterone and its role in the Univ. Press, awarded with a body. Semenya’s current loss Guggenheim Fellowship. demonstrates just how entren- ched those myths have become. This talk is organized by the guest lecturer This GeStiK (Gender Studies in Cologne) at the University of Cologne, Germany GeStiK (Gender Studies in Cologne) at the University of Cologne,

Thursday, February 18 2021 16-18:30 (4-6:30 pm, CET) Testosterone. An Unauthorized Biography: The Athletics Dimension

Rebecca Jordan-Young (PhD) is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gen- der, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, University of Columbia, New York. As an interdisciplinary feminist scientist and science studies scholar she explores the reciprocal relations Katrina Karkazis (PhD) is Visiting between science and the social hierar- Professor at , Atlan- chies of gender, sexuality, class, and ta. The cultural anthropologist and race. Her scientific work on hormones, bioethicist works at the intersection epidemiology and NeuroGenderings of science and technology studies, was published broadly in scientific theories of gender and race, social journals in neuroscience, public health, studies of medicine, and bioethics. Her medical and social science, and in work on the intersection of testostero- feminist journals, as well as in popular ne, issues, sex verification in media. sports, treatment practices, policy and lived experiences has been published Karolin Heckemeyer (PhD) teaches widely in scientific and public media. at the Pädagogischen Hochschule Katrina was an expert witness in Dutee FHNW, Schweiz. Her research as a Chand’s successful appeal of testoste- sociologist and sports researcher rone regulations at the Court of Arbi- focusses on questions of gender tration for Sport (CAS) and consulted diversity and social inequalities in with Caster Semenya’s team prior to sports. With her book on „Leistungs- her hearing at CAS. klassen und Geschlechtertests. Die heteronormative Logik des Sports“ [Performance scales in sports and Sex testing] she is one of the best known experts on the athletics case in Ger- many.

The talk will be held online via zoom. You can find the zoom link with the QR-Code or on the GeStiK-homepage under: https://gestik.uni-koeln.de/ueber-uns-1/gestik-gastdozentur