World Athletics stated it was now working to place in place the testing with the timeline to be agreed “over the subsequent few weeks”.
The take a look at will search for the SRY gene which is a part of the Y chromosome and causes male traits to develop.
A cheek swab take a look at will decide if SRY is current, whereas a dried blood spot take a look at is also used to find out an athlete’s testosterone ranges.
World Athletics stated the take a look at was “a extremely correct proxy for organic intercourse” that might must be taken simply as soon as by an athlete throughout their profession.
Throughout a session, nearly all of stakeholders “agreed that permitting solely organic feminine athletes to compete within the feminine class was important to sustaining equity”, in keeping with World Athletics.
Two years in the past, World Athletics banned transgender athletes who had gone by male puberty from competing within the feminine class in worldwide competitors.
Final month, its working group advisable additional steps.
This was on the premise of recent proof which it stated confirmed there was a “important efficiency hole earlier than the onset of puberty”.
As well as, World Athletics may even merge rules for each DSD and transgender athletes after the working group stated new proof confirmed testosterone suppression “can solely ever partly mitigate the general male benefit within the sport of athletics”.
The present guidelines for DSD athletes required them to scale back their testosterone ranges to a set stage for no less than six months to compete in any feminine class occasion internationally.