World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe praises swimming authorities for their new rules around transgender athletes, adding that the athletics policy will be reviewed at the end of the year.
World football's governing body and athletics administrators are reviewing their transgender eligibility policies after swimming passed new rules that restrict transgender participation in women's events.
in elite women's competitions and create a working group to establish an "open" category in some events as part of its new policy. The new policy states that transgender women are eligible to compete in women's competitions only if "they can establish to FINA's comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 [of puberty] or before age 12, whichever is later".
Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, told the BBC the organisation's council would discuss their regulations at the end of the year. Coe praised FINA for taking the decision, which has been criticised by trans rights advocates, who have regularly
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