Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya blasts IOC's new policy to ensure fairness in women's events

Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic golden medalist successful nan women’s 800-meter race, blasted nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) complete a caller argumentation to guarantee fairness for females competing astatine nan highest level of sports.

Semenya, who has disorders of activity improvement (DSD), has testosterone levels higher than a emblematic female scope and has launched ineligible challenges successful bid to compete successful nan women’s category. Semenya said she expected much from IOC President Kirsty Coventry.

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Caster Semenya (RSA) runs during a power of nan women’s 5000m during nan World Athletics Championships Oregon 22 astatine Hayward Field connected July 20, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

"Personally, for her arsenic a leader, she’s an African, I’m judge she understands how, you know, we arsenic Africans, we are coming from, arsenic a world South, you know, you cannot power genetics," Semenya said Thursday. "For maine personally, for her being a female coming from Africa, knowing how, you know, African women aliases women successful nan world South are affected by that."

The IOC said it would employment genetic testing to verify nan biologic activity of competitors successful women’s events. The IOC said that eligibility for events successful nan women’s class is "now constricted to biologic females, wished connected nan ground of a one-time SRY cistron screening."

"Evidence‑based and expert‑informed, nan argumentation – applicable for nan LA28 Olympic Games onwards – protects fairness, information and integrity successful nan female category," according to nan organization.

"Obviously if you opportunity nan science, because we talk astir subject here, if nan subject is clear, show america who decided and don’t dress that arsenic a dishonesty because it’s a dishonesty and we cognize because we’ve seen it truthful if we were to reply aliases face Kirsty that’s really we gonna respond and we’ll respond beardown arsenic we are because it affects women," Semenya said.

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Caster Semenya (RSA) wins nan women's 800m successful an African grounds 1:54.25 during nan Meeting de Paris successful an IAAF Diamond League meet astatine Stade Charlety connected June 30, 2018.  (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

Semenya won Olympic golden medals astatine nan 2012 and 2016 Games but is banned from competing successful definite world meets for illustration the Olympics and world championships since she refused to travel nan rules and return medicine to trim her hormone levels.

"For maine personally, I’ll opportunity nan sound is not heard because you taking it arsenic a tick box, you ticking a container truthful you tin spell explain aliases opportunity yes we’ve consulted," she said. "For me, it’s you ticking nan box."

The IOC said it came to nan determination to instrumentality nan argumentation aft consulting pinch a sheet of experts, pinch nan extremity of providing adjacent opportunity for women successful sport.

"The argumentation was developed connected nan ground that it is universally accepted that providing for a female class is basal to let some males and females adjacent entree to elite sport," nan IOC said successful an announcement.

"It was guided by nan IOC’s modern goals relating to equality (equal opportunities for female athletes successful finals, connected podiums and successful championships); enhancing Olympic worth (featuring some women’s and men’s finals successful each sport); and visibility and inspiration (celebrating female athletes connected nan Olympic podium to animate and correspond women and girls worldwide)."

Coventry suggested that nan continued enabling of males successful women's sports is "not safe" successful nan announcement.

South Africa's Caster Semenya competes successful nan women's 3000m last during nan Athletics South Africa (ASA) Athletics Grand Prix astatine nan Greenpoint Athletics Stadium successful Cape Town connected March 23, 2022.  (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

"As a erstwhile athlete, I passionately judge successful nan authorities of each Olympians to return portion successful adjacent competition. The argumentation that we person announced is based connected subject and has been led by aesculapian experts. At nan Olympic Games, moreover nan smallest margins tin beryllium nan quality betwixt triumph and defeat," she said.

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"So, it is perfectly clear that it would not beryllium adjacent for biologic males to compete successful nan female category. In addition, successful immoderate sports it would simply not beryllium safe."

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.