The World Athletics Council voted Thursday to ban transgender women from female events in elite track and field competitions.
The ban on transgender athletes follows one adopted by other sports, including swimming, that bars any male-to-female athlete who have been through male puberty.
In its announcement, World Athletics said the policies came after consultations with individual countries’ track federations as well as the Global Athletes Coaches Academy, the IOC and “representative transgender and human rights groups,” though it did not identify the groups.“We continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.
He added that the policy will be reviewed “as more evidence becomes available but we believe the integrity of the female category in athletics is paramount.”
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