World Athletics Council bans transgender female athletes

Track and discipline has banned transgender athletes from worldwide competitors, whereas adopting new rules that might hold Caster Semenya and different athletes with variations in intercourse improvement from competing.

In a pair of selections anticipated to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the similar guidelines as swimming did final 12 months in deciding to bar athletes who’ve transitioned from male to feminine and have gone by male puberty.

No such athletes at the moment compete on the highest elite ranges of monitor.

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Another set of updates, for athletes with variations in intercourse improvement (DSD), will influence 13 athletes, WA President Sebastian Coe mentioned.

They embody Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion at 800 metres who has been barred from that occasion since 2019.

Semenya and others had been in a position to compete in occasions exterior the restricted vary of 400 metres by 1500 metres, however will now must endure hormone-suppressing remedy for six months earlier than competing to be eligible.

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Semenya has been making an attempt to compete in longer occasions. She completed thirteenth in her qualifying warmth at 5,000 meters at world championships final 12 months.

To compete at subsequent 12 months’s Olympics, she must endure hormone-suppressing remedy for six months, one thing she has mentioned she is going to by no means do once more, having undergone the remedy a decade in the past underneath earlier guidelines.

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