faintly related - tomorrow i run my class on the biology of sex determination and the history/current state/controversy surrounding gender testing for elite athletes. The students have to analyze a composited/fictional case study of a female athlete who is appealing a decision in which an award she had won was revoked due to her having "failed" a gender test. the students have to analyze the lab results (the individual turns out to have an XX karyotype but an aberrant recombination event has resulted in an SRY gene having been inserted onto one of the X chromosomes) and then they have to write a statement explaining the results to a panel considering the appeal and make a recommendation as to whether the athlete's medal should be re-instated. it's an awesome class because it really makes the point that science alone is a completely inadequate way to understand sex/gender issues.
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Date: 2010-10-28 01:57 am (UTC)it's an awesome class because it really makes the point that science alone is a completely inadequate way to understand sex/gender issues.
wish me luck! :-)