Caster allowed to participate in men's events - IAAF | Sport24news
is welcome to enter men's events if they are not willing to take medicine to lower their testosterone levels.which urged doctors not to enforce controversial new IAAF gender rules for classifying female athletes, warning that attempts to do so would breach ethical codes.The WMA president Dr Leonid Eidelman said:"
We have strong reservations about the ethical validity of these regulations. They are based on weak evidence from a single study, which is currently being widely debated by the scientific community."The IAAF Regulations in this matter are not based on a single study, but on many scientific publications and observations from the field during the last 15 years. All these materials were submitted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and discussed during the hearing.
"It is also important to exclude a gonadal malignancy since some 46XY DSDs are associated with an increased risk of cancer. If the individual has a female gender identity, a suitable form of treatment is recommended to lower the testosterone level, provided the patient accepts it herself.
"In any case, it is the athlete’s right to decide whether or not to proceed with any assessment and/or treatment.
If Semenya chooses to not lower her testosterone levels, the only way for her to compete in the female classification would be, according to the IAAF:"and at International Competitions: in any discipline other than track events between 400m and a mile"
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