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4 months, 3 weeks ago

What’s Going On With the Two Women Boxers Who “Failed” a Gender Test

Slate

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. According to an IOC database, Khelif was removed from the 2023 championships just hours before she was set to compete for the gold medal because “her elevated levels of testosterone failed to meet the eligibility criteria.” Lin competed, and even won the bronze in the tournament, but the IBA took it back …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

The sports where women outperform men

BBC

The sports where women outperform men Getty Images From ultrarunning to shooting sports, in some competitions women have the edge. It's also very difficult to separate biological and social aspects contributing to differences between women and men in sports performance, Sandbakk stresses. Sports journalist Mertens says that body fat is also "really helpful for these endurance races because after a …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Paul Pogba banned for four years for doping

The Hindu

France and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned for four years for a doping offence earlier this season, Italian media reported on February 29. Pogba was provisionally suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal in September after testing positive for testosterone — a banned substance. Pogba’s positive doping test was also confirmed in a counter-analysis on a second sample in …

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$NCAA Committee on Infractions member resigns over association’s transgender athlete policy$

10 months, 1 week ago

NCAA Committee on Infractions member resigns over association’s transgender athlete policy

Associated Press

A member of the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions, a voluntary group that prescribes penalties to member schools that break association rules, has resigned over NCAA policies regarding the participation of transgender athletes. William Bock, the former general counsel of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told The Associated Press on Friday that NCAA policies permitting transgender athletes to compete against women are …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Caster Semenya says she went through ‘hell’ due to testosterone limits imposed on female athletes

CNN

CNN — South Africa’s two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya told CNN that having to take testosterone-reducing medication in order to compete internationally was “hell” and had a negative impact on her health. “World Athletics has over a decade of research, directly from DSD athletes in our own sport, that show high testosterone levels do provide an unfair advantage in the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Sharron Davies insists transgender athletes make swimming 'atrociously UNFAIR' as 'young girls must start races with a known disadvantage' - and says cancel culture has cost her a lot of money by spea

Daily Mail

Sharron Davies has urged that transgender athletes make swimming 'ridiculously and atrociously unfair', as she continued to speak out against the sport's controversial issue this week. Sharron Davies has urged that transgender athletes make swimming 'ridiculously and atrociously unfair' Davies is an advocate for women in sport and previously weighed in on the debate about who can compete in women's …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Cycling governing body BAN female transgender athletes who transitioned before puberty

Daily Mail

Cycling has become the latest sport to ban transgender women from competing in the female category at international events. The UCI, cycling’s world governing body, announced the rule change on Friday ‘to protect the female class and ensure equal opportunities’, bringing the sport into line with athletics and swimming and following British Cycling’s own policy change in May. Under the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins human rights case but testosterone rules may remain for years

The Hindu

Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and field that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels to compete in major competitions. The ruling by the Strasbourg, France-based court questioned the “validity” of the contentious …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Britain’s Cycling Time Trials bars transgender women from competing in female category

The Hindu

Britain’s Cycling Time Trials banned transgender women from competing in the female category of competitive events on Wednesday, while renaming the men’s category to ‘open’ to “promote inclusivity and fair competition” in the sport. “The Board of CTT will create a new body - a Gender Tribunal, to decide gender eligibility issues and provide sensitive guidance to those affected by …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Sport facing ‘fairness v inclusion’ issue with transgender athletes, expert says

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

Intersex runner Annet Negesa fighting for everyone's right to compete in sport

ABC

Ugandan middle-distance runner Annet Negesa carried a heavy load in her heart for many years as she struggled with the aftermath of a surgery she felt forced into. Negesa became subject to the IAAF's hyperandrogenism rules, which stated female athletes must have testosterone below the male range. " "All these regulations, they're causing human rights violations in sport, one of …

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2 years, 5 months ago

In big surprise, Semenya listed to run at worlds in Eugene

Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Caster Semenya is listed to compete at next week’s world championships in Eugene, Oregon, potentially setting up a surprise return to the big stage for the two-time Olympic champion who is still banned from her favorite race, and still at the heart of one of sport’s most contentious issues. Semenya was listed on Friday for …

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2 years, 6 months ago

World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe favours 'fairness' over inclusion

Firstpost

Under World Athletics rules, transgender women have to show they have low testosterone levels for at least 12 months before competition. London: World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has hinted track and field could follow swimming in bringing in a tougher policy on transgender athletes competing in women’s events. Swimming’s governing body FINA announced on Sunday it intends to set up …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Elite swimming rules transgender athletes who went through male puberty cannot compete in races

Daily Mail

Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who smashed women's records this year, will be banned from competing against biological women in international events after the world swimming's governing body announced on Sunday that it is barring transgender athletes who went through male puberty. Elite swimming is the first sport to ban transgender athletes from women's races even if they went through …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Transgender cyclists face indefinite exclusion due to obscure guidance within UCI rulebook

The Telegraph

Transgender cyclists are facing the prospect of indefinite exclusion from elite competition under little-known guidance within the world governing body’s rulebook. The Union Cycliste Internationale this week blocked the Welsh transgender cyclist Emily Bridges from potentially racing Dame Laura Kenny in Saturday’s National Women’s Omnium Championships and senior figures in cycling now believe that its Medical Rules, which were updated …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Exclusive: Commonwealth Games 2022 to allow trans women cyclists to compete for female medals

The Telegraph

Commonwealth Games chiefs have agreed on new gender rules which could pave the way for a trans woman to race for a female cycling medal. “The CGF will work in close partnership with the relevant international federations to establish qualification and eligibility criteria for athlete participation at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games," the federation told The Telegraph of the new …

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2 years, 9 months ago

World Athletics president calls future of women’s sport ‘fragile,’ defends testosterone regulations – Times of London

CNN

CNN — The president of World Athletics, Sebastian Coe, reportedly said that the integrity and future of women’s sport is “fragile” and defended his governing body’s rules on testosterone. University of Pennsylvania swimmer Thomas last week became the first out transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title after finishing first in the women’s 500-yard freestyle event. According to …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Seb Coe warns 'the future of women's sport' is at stake in transgender athletes row

The Telegraph

Asked how important the challenge of transgender women is in athletics, Coe said: “I think that the integrity of women’s sport - if we don’t get this right - and actually the future of women’s sport, is very fragile.” World Athletics has already taken a hard line with DSD athletes like Caster Semenya, forcing them to lower their testosterone levels …

Gender Coe

3 years, 2 months ago

The History of Gender Testing in Women's Athletics

The Quint

It all started off in 2009 for Semenya after she won 800m title in the World Championships in Berlin as her rapid improvements seemed odd according to the IAAF, who asked her to undergo the gender test. The IAAF says it was "obliged to investigate" after she made improvements of 25 seconds at 1500 m and eight seconds at 800 …

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3 years, 4 months ago

EXPLAINER: What exactly are track’s testosterone rules?

Associated Press

TOKYO — The complex testosterone regulations in track and field have become an issue again at the Olympics after Namibian teenager Christine Mboma won a silver medal in the 200 meters after being banned from some other events because of her natural hormone levels. Essentially, the rules are designed to deal with the dilemma presented by female athletes who were …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Who is Laurel Hubbard? Transgender weightlifter who will make history at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The Telegraph

Laurel Hubbard's involvement in Tokyo 2020 as a trans woman has already polarised opinion – with critics claiming that, having transitioned aged 35, she has an unfair advantage and it sets a dangerous precedent within women's sport. A decade later the governing body announced that those that have transitioned from male to female can compete in women's sport – without …

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3 years, 4 months ago

For Laurel Hubbard and other transgender athletes, change is finally coming to Olympics

LA Times

Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand is the first transgender Olympian to compete in an individual sport. “It’s inclusive, it’s accessible and I think that’s just, just really fabulous.” Everyone listened because on Monday night at the Tokyo International Forum, Hubbard became the first openly transgender athlete to compete in an individual sport at the Olympics. Television personality Piers Morgan …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic dream has sparked an existential debate about what it means to be female

CNN

CNN — When New Zealand’s Olympic weightlifting team gathered last month for a celebratory photo shoot, one person was noticeably absent: Laurel Hubbard. One of Hubbard’s competitors even called her inclusion “a bad joke,” saying it was unfair to cisgender women, whose gender identity matched their sex assigned at birth. Geoff Robins/Mundo Sport Images The IOC rules – agreed on …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Semenya fails to reach Olympic qualifying time for 5,000

Associated Press

LIEGE, Belgium — Caster Semenya failed in her bid to achieve the qualifying time for the 5,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics during a meet in Belgium on Wednesday. Semenya was taking part in a race at Liege which was held after an Olympic qualifying deadline of June 29 had already expired. The two-time Olympic champion has been barred from …

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What’s Going On With the Two Women Boxers Who “Failed” a Gender Test

The sports where women outperform men

Paul Pogba banned for four years for doping

NCAA Committee on Infractions member resigns over association’s transgender athlete policy

Caster Semenya says she went through ‘hell’ due to testosterone limits imposed on female athletes

Sharron Davies insists transgender athletes make swimming 'atrociously UNFAIR' as 'young girls must start races with a known disadvantage' - and says cancel culture has cost her a lot of money by spea

Cycling governing body BAN female transgender athletes who transitioned before puberty

Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins human rights case but testosterone rules may remain for years

Britain’s Cycling Time Trials bars transgender women from competing in female category

Sport facing ‘fairness v inclusion’ issue with transgender athletes, expert says

Intersex runner Annet Negesa fighting for everyone's right to compete in sport

In big surprise, Semenya listed to run at worlds in Eugene

World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe favours 'fairness' over inclusion

Elite swimming rules transgender athletes who went through male puberty cannot compete in races

Transgender cyclists face indefinite exclusion due to obscure guidance within UCI rulebook

Exclusive: Commonwealth Games 2022 to allow trans women cyclists to compete for female medals

World Athletics president calls future of women’s sport ‘fragile,’ defends testosterone regulations – Times of London

Seb Coe warns 'the future of women's sport' is at stake in transgender athletes row

The History of Gender Testing in Women's Athletics

EXPLAINER: What exactly are track’s testosterone rules?

Who is Laurel Hubbard? Transgender weightlifter who will make history at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

For Laurel Hubbard and other transgender athletes, change is finally coming to Olympics

Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic dream has sparked an existential debate about what it means to be female

Semenya fails to reach Olympic qualifying time for 5,000