New ... 'World Athletics today launched a new consultation process on its eligibility conditions for the Female Category and the current DSD Regulations and Transgender Regulations.' Good. Present regulations permit XY DSD athletes in female sport with T suppression to <2.5nmols/L - ThreadSky

womensportfeminism.bsky.social • 17 days ago

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'World Athletics today launched a new consultation process on its eligibility conditions for the Female Category and the current DSD Regulations and Transgender Regulations.'
Good.
Present regulations permit XY DSD athletes in female sport with T suppression to <2.5nmols/L

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lastdaysotheweimar.bsky.social•17 days ago

Lol. Seb did this once and ended up changing their minds and coming up with different rules for MtF and for XY DSD that made no sense except as political theater. XY DSD athletes are wildly overrepresented and yet can compete with short term T reduction.

MtF had 0 presence yet were de facto banned

womensportfeminism.bsky.social•17 days ago

Recommendation 3:
'This recommendation proposes that, in its eligibility rules for the Female Category, World Athletics treat alike all androgen-sensitive XY athletes.'

womensportfeminism.bsky.social•17 days ago

As WA acknowledges:
'testosterone suppression in 46XY DSD and 46XY transgender individuals can only ever partly mitigate the overall male advantage'.

womensportfeminism.bsky.social•17 days ago

'There is no new countervailing evidence that would suggest that transgender women and androgen sensitive XY DSD athletes are biologically different to each other in relation to the design and goals of the Female Category.'

womensportfeminism.bsky.social•17 days ago

'Some XY DSD athletes and medical ethicists are concerned about the medical riskbenefit calculus for athletes with XY DSD who do not experience gender dysphoria and would not undergo treatment if it was not to comply with the sport’s testosterone suppression requirements.'

womensportfeminism.bsky.social•17 days ago

'Some human rights experts are concerned about the cost-benefit calculus of undergoing T suppression treatment, both medically and competitively, for XY DSD athletes.'

womensportfeminism.bsky.social•17 days ago

'Some human rights experts have also become concerned about the human rights of female athletes. For example, the October 2024 Special Rapporteur’s report to the UN General Assembly was unambiguously against testosterone suppression requirements.'

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