South African runner Caster Semenya is continuing her battle against World Athletics, which has implemented rules prohibiting female athletes with a naturally high level of testosterone to compete internationally.
The two-time Olympic champion is to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn the regulations, which she believes are discriminatory, as they require her to artificially lower her natural testosterone levels.
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The runner, who is not eligible to compete internationally under the current regulations, insists that testosterone-suppressing medicine would make her sick, claiming the ban is a clear violation of her human rights.
Semenya has already lost two appeals in Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which upheld World Athletics’ decision regarding the testosterone limit.
Her huge army of supporters continues to lash out at athletics bosses for their unfair treatment.
Semenya identifies as a woman, but has the male XY chromosome, rather than the female XX chromosome – this was officially confirmed in CAS’s press release, after it overturned the runner’s appeal.
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