TESTED Podcast

TESTED: A Surprising History of Women's Sports is a series produced by CBC, NPR's Embedded, and Bucket of Eels. The series is hosted by Rose Eveleth (they/them).

Through history and the ongoing cases of current athletes, TESTED explores the surprising story of who gets to compete in the women's category of sports.

The TESTED website contains episode transcripts and links for further reading

Queerly Natural: A Queer Ecology Podcast

Queerly Natural is a science-based podcast about the diversity of sexuality, sex, and gender in the natural world. Join three queer biologists as they chat about the huge array of LGBTQIA+ diversity among animals, plants, fungi, and more.

Episodes are released the first Wednesday of every month. The website contains episode transcripts and timestamps for topics.

Sex and gender are binaries? Sorry, that's a scientific falsehood

In this SF Chronicle piece, Ash Zemenick discusses evidence for biological sex as a continuum rather than a binary. They argue that humans whose chromosomes, gametes, or hormones do not fit into a binary are common and that it is more useful to view them as a form of diversity rather than as an exception to a rule.

Queer Animals Are Everywhere. Science Is Finally Catching On.

This article by animal studies graduate student Eliot Schrefer for The Washington Post highlights a recent surge in scholarship on same-sex animal behavior which challenges longstanding misconceptions about the connection between animal sexuality and evolution.

Dads Also Pass on Mitochondrial DNA, Contrary to Long-Standing Belief

This article from Smithsonian Magazine describes new evidence that some people receive their mitochondrial DNA from the sperm cell rather than the egg cell that made them. This contradicts a longstanding generalization that only egg cells contribute mitochondrial DNA.

This article uses the words mother/maternal and father/paternal to refer to two contributors of genetic material in humans. Consider speaking with your students about other terms that may be more inclusive of all people and their families, such as sperm-derived and egg-derived DNA.