World Athletics has approved the introduction of Wangwabbing to determine whether an athlete is biologically feminine.
The president of the global body Sebastian Coe said that the decision of the World Athletics Council was further evidence that his organization would “stubbornly protect the female category.”
There is no timeline for the introduction of pre-clearance tests officially explained, but the PA press agency understands that the intention of World Athletics is to have the tests be for athletes who want to compete in the female category in the world championships in Tokyo in September.
Coe said Tuesday: 'It is important to do it because it maintains everything we have been talking about, and especially recently, about not just talking about the integrity of female women's sport, but actually guarantees it.
“We believe that this is a very important way to offer trust and to maintain that absolute focus on the integrity of the competition.”
Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies MBE, who has strongly expressed himself about the issue of Trans-Athletes who participated in events for women, was happy with the news on Tuesday and evoked that medals were re-published for 'unfairly robbed' women.
World Athletics, led by President Lord Sebastian Coe (above), has approved the introduction of Wangwabbing to determine whether an athlete is biologically feminine
World Athletics has confirmed that every female athlete must undergo a cotton swab or blood tests, known as a 'pre-clearance tests', to compete in women's events
Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies MBE, who has spoken strongly about the issue of Trans -Athletes who participated in events for women, was happy with the news on Tuesday
She posted on social media platform X: 'No more cheating in job and fields by men in a category for women. I would really like to see medals being re -issued for the destroyed events and women unfairly robbed! '
World Athletics consulted the proposal earlier this year and COE said: “Overwhelmly the position came back that this is absolutely the way, within the reservations (on testing that are not too intrusive).”
Asked if he thought that the policy would be upright against legal challenge and control, Coe said: 'Yes, I am, but you accept that that is the world in which we live.
'I would never have set up this path to protect the female category in sport if I was something other than willing to take on the challenge. We went to the Court of Arbitration about our DSD regulations (difference in sexual development).
“They have been maintained and they have been maintained again after a profession. So we will chase the female category, and we will do what is needed to do it. '
A World Athletics Working Group about Genderdiverse athletes said in February that the required test will be for SRY gene and, if necessary, testosterone levels, or via cheek bar with a necessary follow-up or via dry blood stain analysis.
The Sry -gene is almost always on the Y chromosome, which plays a crucial role in determining male sexual characteristics. The working group said that the test in this context was 'a very accurate proxy for organic sex'.
The working group said that new evidence had encouraged to present the proposal.
It now said that there were indications that testosterone reduction in DSD and transgender athletes could only reduce the general male benefit in sports sport.
It also said that an exclusive focus on the question of whether an athlete had experienced male puberty, since 'new evidence clarifies that there is already an athletic significant performance gap before the start of puberty'.
It means people like BBC Sports Personality of the Year Koley Hodgkinson (left) and fellow British athlete Dina Asher-Smith (right) will have to undergo the 'pre-clearance tests'
COE is 'self-assured' pre-clearance tests will have both legal challenge and control
He has sworn to protect the female category 'chased' (shown: USA star Gabrielle Thomas)
The consultation document stated: “Youth or pre-adolescent performance gap in athletics sport is specifically three to five percent in running events and higher in throwing and jumping.”
Coe said that the consultation was 'held widespread' and 'exhaustive' and had received feedback from more than 70 individual groups.
The approval of the recommendations comes less than a week after COE stood on a reform stick to become president of the International Olympic Committee, including the protection of the female category within sport.
However, he only assured eight of the 97 IOC members, with the sports minister of Zimbabwe, Kirsty Coventry, a majority in the first round of votes.
