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The World Athletics Council Discluded on Wednesday that athletes who want to participate in female categories at the World Championships have to go through a “unique test” for the authorization.
The test will be for The Sry -Genen“A reliable proxy for determining biological sex” with a cheek smear or a blood test, the organization said in a press release.
“The philosophy that we are in the heart in the world of athletics is the protection and promotion of the integrity of women’s sports. It is really important in a sport that tries to put on more women to put on more women that they believe that there is no biological glass ceiling. The test to confirm biological sex is a very important step to ensure this,” this is the case “, President of the World Athletics President for President of the World Hicheran, President of the World License Athlete, President of the World Trying, President of the World, President of the World President, President of the World, President of the World Law President, President of the World Spanners, is the President of the World Camp Athletics. Sebastian Coe said.
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Lord Sebastian Coe, President of the World Athletics, holds a keynote speech during the European Athletics Young Leaders Forum on August 18, 2022 in Munich. (Simon Hofmann/Getty Images for European Athletics)
“We say that at the elite level in the category of female biologically female. It was always very clear to me and the World Athletics Council that gender cannot outdo biology.”
The organization announced the potential test in MarchWhen Coe said, the tests were “necessary” to protect women’s sports.
The specific gene “contains instructions for the production of a protein that is referred to as a gender -determining region Y protein. This protein is involved in the male gender development, which is usually based on a certain pattern based on the chromosomes of an individual”, according to Medline Plus.
Coe, which was in November in the head of the International Olympic Committee of the Olympic Committee The Olympic Games Needed a clear policy to protect female sports.
Olympiapark During the men’s 10,000-meter Final at the European Championships Munich 2022 at Olympiapark Aug. 21, 2022, in Munich, Germany. (Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)
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World Athletics, the conductive body for athletics sports all over the world, tightened his regulations on trans -athlete Exclude transgender women who have passed the male puberty from the competition in the category.
Since the organization decided on this test months ago, the NCAA has called calls Make similar protocols. The NCAA changed its requirements for transgender athletes, which had signed an executive regulation shortly after President Donald Trump.
A staff of Kiersten Duncan from the LSU in the start blocks of the women -Sprint -Medley relay in the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Mike A. Myers Stadium. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sport)
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Trump signed the Executive Order “No Men in Women’s Sports” in February to prevent biological men from playing in girls and women’s sports. The NCAA said a “athlete assigned to male at birth could not compete in a team of women”.
The previous politics, which was present in 2010, made it possible to compete in the category of women after being subjected to testosterone treatment treatment for at least one year.
Ryan Gaydos from Fox News contributed to this report.
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