“… the World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, gave his clearest indication yet that the governing body would do more to protect female sport.

‘We’ve always been guided by the science, and the science is pretty clear: we know that testosterone is the key determinant in performance,’ he said.

‘I’m really over having any more of these discussions with second-rate sociologists who sit there trying to tell me or the science community that there may be some issue. There isn’t. Testosterone is the key determinant in performance.’ …

‘We have two categories in our sport: one is age and one is gender,’ he added. ‘Age because we think it’s better that Olympic champions don’t run against 14-year-olds in community sports. And gender because if you don’t have a gender separation, no woman would ever win another sporting event.'”

aus: Sean Ingle: Caster Semenya out of world 5,000m as Coe signals tougher female sport rules, The Guardian Online, 21.7.22, im Internet

Abb.: Sonja van Kerkhoff: Dress It Up, 2004, im Internet.

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