The must take accountability for having allowed men to dominate women's sports for years.
"In a presentation to a scientific panel in Tokyo on September 19, 2025, Dr Stéphane Bermon, head of health and science at World Athletics, outlined why the sport’s governing body believes [sex screenings] are necessary as he presented data collected over the past 25 years. He said it showed that athletes with differences of sex development (DSD), who have a 46 XY karyotype with male testes but were reported female at birth, were significantly 'over-represented' in major finals and that it 'compromises the integrity of the female competitions.'
'Everyone is watching World Athletics and we are leading in this area,' Bermon said before telling his audience that there were 'approximately 50-60 cases of DSD in athletics.'
In total between 2000 and 2023, Bermon said there had been 135 DSD finalists in elite international events, given some of the 50 to 60 athletes competed in more than one final. He also showed a slide that said that DSD cases are 151.9 times more likely than would be expected given the number of DSD individuals in the general population."
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Genevieve Gluck
@WomenReadWomen
At the 2016 Olympics, three men with DSDs took the top medals in the 800M Women's event.
Lynsey Sharp, who placed sixth, explained in tears that it had been "difficult" to compete against Caster Semenya.
The real winners:
Melissa Bishop
Joanna Jozwik
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