The Present Illness

Forced Sex Testing and Forced C-sections


Listen Later

IOC resumes harmful sex gene testing; forced c-sections with zoom court rooms; The Lancet profiles our host!; A woman goes to the moon; Alyssa recommends bioethics books

The Lancet profiles Arghavan!

Sally Ride, 100 tampons (song)

IOC sex testing

  • International Olympic Committee’s new policy 
  • Andrew Sinclair’s essay 
  • Tested podcast 
  • Caster Semenya
  • Imane Khelif
  • Eero Mäntyranta
  • Steven van de Velde allowed to compete in 2024
  • Fact Check: The Namibian runner is Christine, not Christina, Mboma. Also, astronaut Victor Glover is the first Black person to reach the moon!

Forced C-sections

  • Court ordered C-sections & hearings
  • Rinat Dray
  • Refusal of Medically Recommended Treatment During Pregnancy

Book recommendations

  • Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography 
  • Policing the Womb
  • Medical Bondage
  • Radical Reproductive Justice
  • Fatal Invention 
  • Killing the Black Body 
  • Medical Apartheid

💊Take Two and Call Me in the Morning💊

  • Dogs
  • Kit Kat heist
  • Geese migration
  • Steller Sea Lions

Text us!

Thanks for listening to The Present Illness! 

Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube @ThePresentIllness

Credits

  • Production by Arghavan Salles & Alyssa Burgart
  • Editing by Alyssa Burgart
  • Music by Joseph Uphoff
  • Social Media by Arghavan Salles
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Present IllnessBy Alyssa Burgart & Arghavan Salles