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Tested: Unfair Advantage?
Season 20 Episode 5
Episode 5: A battle over science and ethics unfolds. World Athletics releases and then tweaks multiple policies impacting DSD athletes, while critics cry foul. In this episode, World Athletics double…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Tested: Running in Circles
Season 20 Episode 4
Episode 4: In 2009, South African sprinter Caster Semenya won gold at the World Championships. But instead of a celebration, she endured endless speculation about her body, her biology, and her gende…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Tested: Card-Carrying Females
Season 20 Episode 3
Episode 3: We meet Kenyan sprinter Maximila Imali, who—like Christine Mboma—has been sidelined by DSD policies. She makes a different choice from Christine: to fight the regulations in court. And we …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Tested: Questions of a Physical Nature
Season 20 Episode 2
Episode 2: We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes w…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Tested: The Choice
Season 20 Episode 1
Episode 1: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field authorities announced…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Introducing Tested from NPR and CBC
Season 20
Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women's category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Supermajority: The Could-Be Candidate
Season 19 Episode 4
The end of the 113th General Assembly of Tennessee is fast approaching. Melissa Alexander, Mary Joyce and Sarah Shoop Neumann have reached a new stage in their understanding of the statehouse. But th…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Supermajority: A Common-Sense Caucus
Season 19 Episode 3
Melissa Alexander came to the Tennessee statehouse to convince members of the Republican party – her party – to adopt gun control measures after a mass shooting at her son's school. A year later, she…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Supermajority: The Roll Call
Season 19 Episode 2
It's been four months since the Covenant moms – lifelong conservatives Melissa Alexander, Mary Joyce and Sarah Shoop Neumann – pleaded with their lawmakers to pass gun control measures during a speci…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Supermajority: The Covenant Moms
Season 19 Episode 1
In 2023, a mass shooter attacked The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, and three mothers were compelled to act. Their mission: help pass some kind of gun control in…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago