Doriane Coleman is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she specializes in interdisciplinary scholarship focused on women, children, medicine, sports, and law. Her recent work has centered on sex, including its evolving definition and its implications for institutions ranging from elite sport to medicine and, of course, to law. A first article in this series, Sex in Sport, is at 80 Law & Contemporary Problems 63 (2017), and a second, Re-affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX's General Non-Discrimination Rule, is at 27 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 69 (2020). She is currently working on a third article on Sex in Medicine and a book project called Sex in Law.
Doriane Coleman
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Sex Testing in Elite Sport
It's still all about testosterone.
In Defense of the Status Quo
The still-salient case for a biologically-based women's category in elite sport.
On the Biology of Sex, Sex Differentiation, and the Performance Gap
Yes, it is all about testosterone. [UPDATE: Post bumped, because a tech glitch kept people from being able to comment on it; that should be fixed now.]
Who Is a "Woman" in Sport
The battle between biology and identity is engaged.
In Defense of the Status Quo
The still-salient case for a biologically-based women's category in elite sport.
On the Biology of Sex, Sex Differentiation, and the Performance Gap
Yes, it is all about testosterone.