"by implementing a genetic test using PCR to determine the biological sex of all women who qualify to participate in future Olympic Games. The IOC will be following the path set last July by World Athletics (WA), the international athletics federation, which required the 1,015 women participating in the World Championships in Tokyo to undergo an SRY PCR test that identifies the gene on the Y chromosome, which is present in males."
"Women who do not pass the test will be eliminated from international sports competition in the female category of any sport, whether they are transgender athletes, athletes with Differences of Sex Development (DSD), women who were assigned female at birth but have male chromosomes, women like Caster Semenya, the South African Olympic champion, or Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who won a gold medal at the Paris Games."
"Indeed, the significant impact of the Algerian boxer's victory at the last Olympic Games was one of the reasons why Coventry created a study commission. The members of the commission are kept secret, but it is chaired by the IOC's new chief medical officer, Canadian Olympic rower Jane Thornton. Both her athletic experience and Coventry's own as a 2004 Olympic swimming champion also influence their regulatory decisions."
Kirsty Coventry is expected to implement a PCR-based genetic test to determine the biological sex of all women who qualify to compete in future Olympic Games. The policy will follow World Athletics' requirement that 1,015 women at the World Championships in Tokyo undergo an SRY PCR test detecting the Y-chromosome gene. Athletes who fail the test would be barred from female-category international competition, including transgender athletes and those with Differences of Sex Development (DSD), and could affect athletes such as Caster Semenya and Imane Khelif. Coventry created a study commission chaired by IOC chief medical officer Jane Thornton; members are kept secret. Joana Harper described the policy as more political than scientific.
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