Rob Harris
Sports correspondent, Sky News
South African Caster Semenya encouraging challenge against the landmark decision by the IOC to reintroduce sex testing; women’s category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028; double Olympic gold medallist Semenya calling on other athletes to join class action
Last Updated: 28/03/26 3:09pm
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Caster Semenya is encouraging a challenge against the landmark decision to reintroduce sex testing alongside banning transgender women and athletes with differences in sex development (DSD) from women’s competitions
Caster Semenya is encouraging a challenge against the landmark decision to reintroduce sex testing alongside banning transgender women and athletes with differences in sex development (DSD) from women’s competitions
For Caster Semenya, the new Olympics rules are not about providing clarity and protecting women’s sport but caving into political pressure, and discriminatory.
Having fought athletics chiefs over her own gender eligibility, the double Olympic champion is shaping up for a new battle with the International Olympic Committee.”If we have to say women must stop taking part in Olympics, so be it,” the South African said in an exclusive interview with Sky News. “I will encourage athletes to come together as a class action … because this does not make sense. It does not save women’s sport.”The South African is encouraging a challenge against the landmark decision to reintroduce sex testing alongside banning transgender women and athletes – like herself – with differences in sex development (DSD) from women’s competitions. …
2026-03-28 14:55:00
