won a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights<\/a> three weeks ago in Strasbourg, France, in the South Africa star\u2019s years-long challenge to a previous version of track and field\u2019s eligibility rules affecting athletes with medical conditions known as differences in sex development (DSD). That legal win came because she did not get a fair hearing at the Swiss supreme court, but did not overturn track\u2019s rules.\n <\/p>\n\n World Athletics drew up rules in 2018 forcing two-time Olympic champion Semenya and other athletes with DSD to suppress their elevated natural testosterone levels to be eligible for international women\u2019s events. Semenya refused to take medication.\n <\/p>\n
\n Now, the Monaco-based track body requires a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime test\u201d to determine athletes it says are biologically male with a Y chromosome.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are saying, at elite level, for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female,\u201d World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The governing body is covering up to $100 of the costs for each test with the protocol overseen by its member federations at the national level. Test results should be ready within two weeks.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe SRY test is extremely accurate and the risk of false negative or positive is extremely unlikely,\u201d World Athletics said.\n <\/p>\n
\n World Athletics has combined its eligibility framework for DSD and transgender athletes, with transitional rules that let \u201ca very small number of known DSD athletes\u201d continue competing if they are taking medication to suppress natural testosterone.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe transitional provisions do not apply to transgender women as there are none competing at the elite international level under the current regulations,\u201d World Athletics said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Now age 34, and her track career effectively over, Semenya should now see her legal case go back to the Swiss federal court in Lausanne, where she lost her original appeal against track and field\u2019s rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Monaco AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Clarifying promised rules on female eligibility, track and field\u2019s governing body…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-105307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114943257731782702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}