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A presentation in a world athletics panel in Tokyo on Friday revealed that 50 to 60 athletes with male biological advantages have been finalists in the women’s category in global and continental championships since 2000.
The panel was directed by the head of the Department of Health and Sciences of World Athletics, Dr. Stéphane Bermon, who said that sexual tests were necessary due to a “overrepresentation” of DSD athletes (differences in sexual development) between the finalists, according to multiple reports.
The controversy on the subject in world athletics arose when the South Africa Semenya launcher won the Olympic gold in the 800 meters in the 2012 and 2016 Games. Then, in the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, Christine Mboma de Namibia claimed silver in the 200 meters.
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South Africa’s gold medalist is on the podium during the medal ceremony for the 800 female meters in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
World Athletics changed its policy in March 2023, excluding the transgender athletes of a woman to women who have passed through male puberty of female competitions, prioritizing “equity and integrity.”
Last October, the United Nations He said that almost 900 biological females have not reached the podium because they were beaten by trans athletes.
The findings were compiled by reparation, the UN Rapporteur on violence against women and graduates “Violence against women and girls in sports.”
The report said that more than 600 athletes did not measure more than 400 competitions in 29 sports, with a total of more than 890 medals, according to the information obtained as of March 30.
“The replacement of the women’s sports category with a mixed sex category has resulted in a growing number of athletes that lose opportunities, including medals, when they compete against men,” the report said.
“This is huge, especially from the UN,” said Outkick collaborator and host of “Gaines for Girls”, Riley Gaines, he told “Fox and Friends” Wednesday. “A girl exploited in the locker room, a injured girl in her sport is too much.”
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The new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kirsty Coventry, He addressed the issue of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports at their first press conference since he took over June and said there is an “overwhelming support” for IOC members to protect the female category.
“We understand that there will be differences depending on sport … but members of the members have to protect the female category, first of all to guarantee equity,” Coventry said.
“But we need to do that with a scientific approach and the inclusion of international federations that have already worked a lot in this area.”
The new president added that there is “unanimous” support to reach an agreement on how to amend the policy and suggested that the IOC can be inspired by the world athletics politics, which restricts the biological men to compete in women’s sports if these men have passed through male puberty.
“It was very clear about the membership that the discussion about this must be done with medical and scientific research in the background, so we are looking at the facts and nuances and the inclusion of international federations that have done much of this work … having a seat at the table and sharing with us because each sport is different,” he said.
“But it felt unanimously that the IOC should assume a main role in unite everyone to try to find a broad consensus.”
However, Coventry also said that any change would probably not result to retroactively change the results of past competitions that presented athletes with gender eligibility questions.
The 2024 Paris Games presented two gold winning boxers in women’s competition despite previously failed gender eligibility tests for international competitions.
“We are not going to do anything retrospectively. We will be looking forward. Of the members [it] It was, “What are we learning from the past and how are we going to take advantage of that and move towards the future?” Coventry said.
