The goal for men to increase their fitness and performance is usually accomplished by finding legal ways to increase their
testosterone levels, in order to get bigger, go faster, become stronger. Female athletes however, are forced to fit a social stigma of
what a female should look like, act like, and perform like. Why are there two distinct genders that compete in sport, so far away
from each other on the spectrum of masculinity and femininity? Certainly, some athletes fall somewhere between the petite,
relatively slower, females, and the large, muscular, faster males, right? Those individuals that fall in the middle of the spectrum may
be intersex, or having both male and female characteristics, and are causing unnecessary controversy
testosterone levels, in order to get bigger, go faster, become stronger. Female athletes however, are forced to fit a social stigma of
what a female should look like, act like, and perform like. Why are there two distinct genders that compete in sport, so far away
from each other on the spectrum of masculinity and femininity? Certainly, some athletes fall somewhere between the petite,
relatively slower, females, and the large, muscular, faster males, right? Those individuals that fall in the middle of the spectrum may
be intersex, or having both male and female characteristics, and are causing unnecessary controversy