International sports organizations, events, and committees work on the idea that there are only two genders that human beings can be, emphasizing the gender binary: male or female. Consequently, as Heggie emphasizes in their 2010 article “all athletes including intersex and transgender individuals must be assigned to compete in one or other category.”(Heggie 2010, pg 159) . While in the positive implications I have put forward that it could give the Global South autonomy by letting them decide the requirements of gender, it also takes away cultural ties to gender identities outside the gender binary. Consequently, this would be a negative implication of development because it could also be taken as neo-colonialism.
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One UN report states that even though sex verification is currently suspended pending review athletes have been “discriminated against and forced or coerced into ‘treatment’ for hyperandrogenism” having undergone forced or coerced procedures for female genital mutilation and sterilization by the removal of reproductive organs. (Pūras 2016, pg 14) . Caster Semenya, the women who forced the suspension of sex verification was also coerced into undergoing treatment through hormone therapy which changed her physically. (Gleeson & Brady 2016). While they may be many reasons why people undergo FGM even in their own free will with investigation it seems forcing athletes to get procedures done would be against their human rights which would be an a negative implication for development because there would be pressures from Western Powers for the Global South to comply because of the platform of international sporting events has on economic
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One UN report states that even though sex verification is currently suspended pending review athletes have been “discriminated against and forced or coerced into ‘treatment’ for hyperandrogenism” having undergone forced or coerced procedures for female genital mutilation and sterilization by the removal of reproductive organs. (Pūras 2016, pg 14) . Caster Semenya, the women who forced the suspension of sex verification was also coerced into undergoing treatment through hormone therapy which changed her physically. (Gleeson & Brady 2016). While they may be many reasons why people undergo FGM even in their own free will with investigation it seems forcing athletes to get procedures done would be against their human rights which would be an a negative implication for development because there would be pressures from Western Powers for the Global South to comply because of the platform of international sporting events has on economic