Transgender women athletes have been banned from competing in elite female events if they have gone through male puberty, the sport’s governing body announced today
if they have gone through male puberty, the sport’s governing body announced today.
World Athletics also voted to tighten restrictions on athletes with Differences in Sex Development , cutting the maximum permitted level of plasma testosterone for athletes in half, from five nanomoles per litre to 2.5. The tighter rules will impact DSD athletes including two-times Olympic 800 metre champion Caster Semenya, Christine Mboma, the 2020 Olympic silver medalist in the 200m, and Francine Niyonsaba, who finished runner-up to Semenya in the 800 at the 2016 Olympics.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe told a news conference the decision to exclude transgender women was based “on the overarching need to protect the female category”. He added that WA would form a task force to study the issue of trans inclusion that would be chaired by a transgender athlete.from elite competition if they had experienced any part of male puberty.
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