Highly recommend Rose Eveleth’s Tested, a six-part podcast about gender verification in sport—and detailing the various ways in which sporting bodies have exerted their desire to categorize and control human bodies.

It’s well told, extremely relevant, historically fascinating, and full of twists and turns. But maybe the most impressive thing is how Rose makes the headlines personal by actually talking to the athletes who are affected by gender rules that treat them like freaks. Women like Christine Mboma, who are subjected to various methods of outside control simply because they do not fit somebody’s pretty arbitrary definition of womanliness.

Great athletes are often physically unusual: think Michael Phelps’s double-jointed ankles and gigantic wingspan, which were undoubted genetic gifts that played a part in his Olympic success. Or think of basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is very tall—at At 6’11”, he’s 14 inches taller than the normal American adult male—but has insane ball carrying capacity because his 30cm hands are even bigger, nearly 50% larger than the norm. Meanwhile Leo Messi’s in-built balance and unbelievable kinesthetic sense have aided his footballing genius, and he even took human growth hormone as a child because of growth deficiency. And yet nobody suggests these people should be banned from their sport for their differences, or take drugs to shrink their hands or seize up their joints.

Yet, as Tested carefully explains, that’s what happens to people whose bodies deviate from perceived “femininity” and get treated as if they are doping. During these days, when gender differences are under attack (and the show isn’t even about trans athletes, but it tells us a lot about the way people in authority react to those who do not fit precisely in the binary box) and as the Olympic games, it feels more relevant than it ever was.

I’m two and a half episodes through, and I’m all in.