SA psychiatrists' body: Semenya's human rights violated | Sport24news
proposed rule at the end of this month on testosterone limits for female athletes is medically unethical, a violation of human rights, and fails to recognise the evidence for natural variations in human gender, says South Africa’s professional body for psychiatry.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport is expected to rule at the end of this month on double Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya’s challenge to the IAAF's rule change to force suppression of hyperandrogenic female athletes' naturally high testosterone levels in order to be allowed to compete.
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