Track and Field will present the mandatory testing of sex DNA for athletes entering women’s competitions, his global leader said on Tuesday, making him the first Olympic sport to add the request.
This move comes due to the increasingly more upset discussion of the rules of fulfilling conditions in women’s sports and comes less than a year after The question broke out at the Paris Olympics When questions about the qualifications of two women who provided gold medals in boxing, and sometimes disturbing – scene inside and out of the ring.
This move is crucial to protecting women’s sports, said Sebastian Coe from Britain, head of the management body of the trail, world athletics and former double Olympic gold medal at 1500 meters. He said that the new policy, which will be competitors to what is described as a non -invasive DNA test for DNA cheeks or dry blood, was part of his vow to “protect the female category and do everything it takes to protect it.”
World athletics said that new tests could be in place for their next World Cup in Tokyo in September.
“We’re not just talking about the integrity of the female sport, but actually guarantees it,” Mr. Coe told reporters in Nanjing, China. “And that is, we feel, it is a really important way to provide confidence and maintain that absolute focus on the integrity of the competition.”
G. Coe, an unsuccessful candidate in Recent elections Leading the International Olympic Committee, it was a polarizing force in its zeal on this regard. The debate on the criteria of the eligibility of women has led to struggle – mostly played in the bear’s caves of social media – about who has the right to compete. The trail of 2023 has banned transgender athletes from the competition of women.
New rules in women’s competition eliminate the minority of athletes who do not have typical female XX sex chromosomes and have one of several conditions that are together known as the differences in gender development or DSD. Such people can be female to external performances, and some do not know they have DSD. But their unusual genetics can result in high testosterone levels, and perhaps greater muscle development, giving them one of the athletic benefits that men have.
Track and Field has been at the helm of discussion since the South African runner killed Semenya exploded in public consciousness, winning gold at 800 meters at the 2009 World Cup. The victory encouraged the return of rivals who complained about Mrs. Semen’s appearance, which led to the ruling body. There was a rare trait that gave her a naturally elevated testosterone level.
She won gold at the 2012 London Olympics, and again at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics, when all three medals in 800 meters were athlete with DSD.
In 2018, trails officers began to demand that all DSD athletes take medication to reduce the amount of testosterone in their bodies to compete. Now even this supplement will disappear – which some athletes have caused.
World athletics said she had updated her policy after concluding that the latest research shows that men’s advantages exist before puberty. The benefits of performance, according to men and women were up to 5 percent in running events, and even higher in the throwing and jumping categories.
Human rights groups previously criticized the rules of trails and terrainDescribing gender acceptability tests and a demand that natural testosterone levels are limited as violent and harmful.
Mr. Coe tried to relax the effect of the latest tests, which all athletes would have to undergo once.
“The process is honest, honest,” he said. “None of them are invasive. They are needed and will be done in absolute medical standards.”
Mrs. Semenya challenged the previous rules of the management body, and the case went to the highest court of international sport in 2019, where she lost. Mr. Coe said he was ready to defend the new rules to the court if a similar challenge appeared.
The question of who has or does not meet the conditions for participating in the women’s category was highlighted in the recent IOC elections in which Mr. Coe and five other candidates lost to Kirssty Coventry, a former Zimbabwe gold medalist, who will take control in June.
Mrs. Coventry said she intended to establish a working group, as well as a meeting with different sports, to discuss the ideas of protecting female sports, but she was unclear about specific policies, urging “a little more sensitivity” to athletes with a difference in gender development. IOC had previously rejected the idea of sex testing, but Mrs. Coventry did not rule out the possibility.
The subject of the topic has also become more treacked for sports officers than the return of President Trump to the White House. On the eve of the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, Mr. Trump was performed on the matter, saying that there are only two sexes – male and female – and Order of visa bans Last month to prevent transgender athletes to enter the United States.
