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Is there a right not to know one's sex? The ethics of ‘gender verification’ in women's sports competition
- Correspondence to Dr Claudia Wiesemann, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Goettingen University Medical Center, Humboldtallee 36, 37073 Goettingen, Germany; cwiesem{at}gwdg.de
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Is there a right not to know one's sex? The ethics of ‘gender verification’ in women's sports competition
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- Received July 18, 2010
- Revised October 13, 2010
- Accepted October 31, 2010
- First published March 1, 2011.
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April 27, 2016
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