Tokyo 2025: MANDATORY GENETIC test in the FEMALE category

… The new regulations come into effect on 1 September 2025
… to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25
… All athletes wishing to compete in the female category
… are required to undergo a once-in-a-lifetime test
… for determining biological sex
… via a cheek swab or blood test
… “for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female”
… “gender cannot trump biology”













