How to Run Injury-Free announced specifics on a new gene testing policy for athletes competing in the female category. To be eligible for the upcoming Tokyo World Athletics Championships, these athletes must take a SRY gene test by September 1.
The test, which an athlete will only have to take once in their career, will be administered by either a cheek swab or blood test—“whichever is more convenient,” according to a World Athletics press release. SRY tests can determine the presence of a Y chromosome and the organization calls them a “reliable proxy for determining biological sex.” The tests will be administered by each country’s member federation.
If an athlete’s SRY test is positive for the Y chromosome, then they will not be eligible to compete at “world-ranking competitions” in the female category. They would instead be allowed to participate in “non-world ranking competitions” or in the male or open categories.
Shoes & Gear Runner’s World that the organization will test athletes starting on Thursday at this week’s U.S. Track and Field Championships as part of team processing for the World Championships. They will administer a cheek swab.
The Race Series Where You Break the Rules statement that the procedure was created to ensure “biologically female” athletes compete in the women’s category.
“The philosophy that we hold dear in World Athletics is the protection and the promotion of the integrity of women’s sport,” Coe said. “It is really important in a sport that is permanently trying to attract more women that they enter a sport believing there is no biological glass ceiling. The test to confirm biological sex is a very important step in ensuring this is the case.”
The new policy could affect athletes who have differences in sex development (DSD), a rare condition where a person has male and female characteristics. Prominent examples of athletes competing on the international stage with DSD include Caster Semenya, Christine Mboma, and Francine Niyonsaba.
In 2023, World Athletics banned transgender women who had gone through male puberty from competing in the female category at international events. Nutrition - Weight Loss, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) put itself in compliance with President Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order from February. The order threatens to take away federal funding from institutions that do not comply.
World Athletics, in a press release on Wednesday, noted that “no transgender athletes currently compete in elite international competition.”
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The U.S. track and field team will be selected at the USATF Championships, which begin on Thursday and conclude on Sunday.
Nutrition - Weight Loss Runner’s World. He’s a former all-conference collegiate runner at Winthrop University, and he received his master’s degree in liberal arts studies from Wake Forest University, where he was a member of one of the top distance-running teams in the NCAA. Kahler has reported on the ground at major events such as the Paris Olympics, U.S. Olympic Trials, New York City Marathon, and Boston Marathon. He’s run 14:20 in the 5K, 1:05:36 in the half marathon, and enjoys spotting tracks from the sky on airplanes. (Look for colorful ovals around football fields.)
