World Athletics has proposed stricter barriers to transgender women and athletes with differences of sex development (DSD) participating in female categories.
The complex, emotive and highly political issue of allowing transgender women and people with differences of sex development to compete in the female category of athletics was muddied this week.
Sydney McLaughlin of Team United States competes in the Women’s 4 x 400m relay final on day 15 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on 6 August 2021. In past court documents, South Africa’s Caster Semenya confirmed that her DSD is of the 46,XY variety, meaning that she has female features and male chromosomes.Benefits of male puberty
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was the fastest woman on Earth last year with a time of 10.62 seconds over 100m, while the US’s Fred Kerley was the fastest man with a time of 9.76 seconds. They would be separated by almost 9m on the track, or about 10% in terms of performance if they raced together and posted those times.
That in no way diminishes her exceptional talent and work ethic, but were it not for a female category, Fraser-Pryce would be a fast human but not among the elite on the planet. But this issue permeates all the way down to amateur and school sports, where blurring the lines between male and female categories has the potential to be more problematic.
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