The President of the World Federation track and field (World Athletics, Former IAAF), Seb Co announced that DNA tests will now be performed even in top athletes before the big tournaments to look at the sex their.
After the fool with the Iman Celif At the Paris Olympics and US President Donald Trump’s decree on both sexesIn view of the Olympic Games in Paris, the World Athletics Federation became the first to take relevant measures, with Seb Co promising that “it will persevere the female category and do whatever it takes to protect it”.
Co argued that the new policy would include a non -invasive examination of cheek or dry blood that would be done once and was necessary to protect justice in the female category.
“We are not just talking about the integrity of female sport, but in reality we guarantee it. And this, we believe, is a very important way to provide confidence and maintain this absolute focus on the integrity of competition, “he said characteristically, explaining that” the process is very simple sincere, none of the tests are invasive, they are necessary and will be done with perfectly medical standards. “
Since 2023, the world track has banned transsexual women in women’s category, citing scientific research that has shown that transsexual women maintain an advantage in strength, endurance, power and lung capacity, even after taking drugs. However, the new rules will also exclude athletes with a gender growth difference (DSD), who are referred to as women at birth, but undergo the normal benefits of male adolescence, from the female category, according to the Guardian.
The World Federation even intends to “run” the procedures to implement the new measure before the Japan World Track Championships in September 2025.