The World Athletics Council announced it has voted to ban male-to-female transgender athletes from all female World Rankings competition. On Thursday, the council announced decisions on transgender athletes and regulations for DSD athletes. Under the updated guidelines, male-to-female transgender athletes who went through male puberty will not be allowed to compete in any events.
The council noted that there are currently no transgender athletes in international competition, and therefore, there is no “athletics-specific evidence of the impact these athletes would have on the fairness of female competition in athletics.”
That being the case, the World Athletics Council said it chose to “[prioritize] fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion.”
The council said it will put together a Working Group that includes a transgender athlete to reconsider this decision over the next 12 months.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe released a…
