News Summary

• South Africa's Caster Semenya has hit out at the IOC's new policy on transgender athletes.
• Medical experts and Olympians say the impact of the ban will be felt more keenly by those with Differences in Sexual Development (DSD) New Zealander Laurel Hubbard is the only recorded trans athlete in Olympic history.
• The new IOC policy makes a "rare exception of athletes with a diagnosis of Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) or other rare differences/disorders in sex development (DSDs) who do not benefit from the anabolic and/or performance-enhancing effects of testosterone" It has otherwise reverted to SRY testing, comprising a cheek swab, which it used in the 1990s.