From March 31, a regulation will come into force prohibiting female athletes who “have gone through male puberty” from participating in athletics arenas. The World Athletics Federation issued a communiqué on this matter.
Martina Navratilova supported World Athletics. Demands to create an “open category”
Martina Navratilova referred to the decision of the athletic authorities. The tennis legend supported the activities of World Athletics. “It looks like the world is finally waking up and using common sense. I just hope that other sports will soon follow suit,” she wrote in The Times.
Navratilova pointed out that a so-called open category. “The best idea would be to have categories: ‘biological female’, ‘biological girls’, and then an ‘open category’. It would be a category for everyone: men who identify as men; women who identify as as women; women who identify as men; men who identify as women; non-binary.
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“In the open category, there are no question marks, reservations, asterisks, doubts. It’s a simple solution” – she noted.
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The legendary tennis player also pointed out that there are differences between transgender athletes and other athletes, even at the hormonal level. “Once someone has gone through male puberty, there’s no way to erase that physical advantage. You can’t just turn back time by, for example, trying to lower your testosterone levels.”