The IAAF says the rules are essential to preserve a level playing field and ensure that all female athletes can see 'a path to success'.
The UN Human Rights Council has condemned the IAAF’s attempt to regulate the testosterone levels of female athletes, as nations unanimously backed the cause of South African runner Caster Semenya.
The IAAF says the rules are essential to preserve a level playing field and ensure that all female athletes can see “a path to success”. Semenya, who has dominated over 800m in the last decade, has remained largely silent during the legal battle.In a rare intrusion into the world of sport, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution last month branding the IAAF rules “unnecessary, humiliating and harmful”.
Experts have meanwhile argued that barring certain women from competition due to naturally high testosterone levels would be like excluding basketball players because they are too tall. “It is, therefore, unfair and unethical for the IAAF to make new regulations for women’s sport – to the effect of excluding some women – based on outdated definitions,” she wrote on The Conversation website earlier this month.However, the IAAF is not alone, with athletes of the calibre of world marathon record-holder Paula Radcliffe backing the world body.
DSD athletes with male levels of testosterone “get the same increases in bone and muscle size and strength and increases in haemoglobin that a male gets when they go through puberty,” the federation has said.
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