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IOC’s Kirsty Coventry announces ‘scientific approach’ to protect ‘female category’

Task force of scientists and federations to revise policyTrans and DSD athletes expected to be banned from female categoryKirsty Coventry has said there is now “overwhelming support” among International Olympic Committee members to protect the female category in a significant shift in its gender eligibility policy.Coventry, who was chairing her first meetings as the IOC’s new president, said that a taskforce of scientists and international federations would be set up within weeks to come up with a new policy. Continue reading...

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