More female athletes believe it is fair (43%), rather than unfair (36%) for athletes with a DSD – difference in sex development - to be included in the female category for contact sports like rugby ...

Cheek swab sex tests are set to be introduced in track and field as World Athletics moves to toughen rules to protect fairness in women’s sport. The global body is consulting with athletes over its ...

World Athletics will introduce cheek swab sex tests to determine if an athlete is biologically female and eligible to compete in their elite women’s category. Lord Coe, who will remain president of ...

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya secured a partial victory in her long legal battle over athletics sex eligibility rules on Thursday (Jul 10), as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR ...

TOKYO (AP) — The woman whose genetic test in the 1980s led sports leaders to conclude it was too intrusive, not definitive enough and, ultimately, not worth keeping, said she was faced with “a sadness ...

“Sometimes, athletes do not know (that they have a DSD) themselves – disproportionately, these regulations for decades now have impacted athletes from the Global South,” she said. “In these countries, ...

Previously, athletes like Semenya with differences in sex development (DSD) had to undergo testosterone -suppression therapy for two years to be eligible for races between 400 meters and one mile. Now ...

BENGALURU - Female athletes will soon have to undergo a one-time genetic test to compete in women's events, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said on Tuesday, after proposals to tighten ...

Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui, Belarus' Maryna Arzamasava, Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba and South Africa's Caster Semenya compete in the Women's 800m Final during the athletics event at the Rio ...

Having a difference in sex development is not the same as being transgender OLYMPIC boxer Imane Khelif has sparked a row about sex in sport after being allowed to fight as a woman despite failing a ...