In april determines the court for arbitration for sports Cas on the International association of athletics federations (IAAF) has the right to require that women who are hyperandrogena, with naturally high levels of the male hormone, testosterone, must psychostimulants in order to compete.
It is medeldistanslöparen Caster Semenya, who appealed against the IAAF’s decision to the Cas. The UN human rights council (UNHRC) has set itself on Semenyas page and decided last week to urge the world’s governments to ensure that sports organisations to refrain from developing and managing policies and practices that forces or presses the female athletes to undergo unnecessary, degrading and harmful medical treatments.
on this in an interview with the australian Daily Telegraph.
– the Reason why we have different classes for the sexes is that otherwise, no woman would take any title or medal or break a record, ” said Coe.
the IAAF backs up his chairman with a statement in which it says that the reason for the decision to hyperandrogena women need medication to get compete is for it to be fair for female athletes.
in a statement that she does not pose any threat to other female athletes and Coes statement ripped up the deep wounds of the soul, which she got by the questioning of her through the years.
”She is a woman. She was born as a woman, grew up as a woman and has competed as a woman throughout life and do not want to take medications that alter the person she is and was born as,” write the lawyers.
”the Coe has the wrong who think that She is a threat to female sport. She is a hero and a role model.”
about how much impact testosteronhalten on idrottsresultaten for hyperandrogena women.
Angelica Lindén Hirschberg, obstetrics and gynekologiprofessor at Karolinska Institutet, belongs to those who in their research found that there is a correlation between high testosteronhalt and athletic success of women.
Researchers recently presented their study in the British Medical Journal says that it is a myth and that it is talent that is behind the success.
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