Selective Sex Testing Could be hurting African Sports.

Namibia’s Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have become the latest women athletes ruled ineligible to compete due to naturally high levels of testosterone and the IAAF claims that there is a significant connection between high testosterone and athletic performance. The sprinters were tested during a medical assessment and their levels exceeded the limit by a World Athletics’ policy on Athletes with Differences of Sex Development (DSD). Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya has been fighting a case against the new rules for years.

World Athletics requires that female athletes’ blood testosterone levels be under 5 nanomoles per liter which is double the normal female range of below 2 nmol/L, to compete in select women’s events, from 400m to 1500m when it introduced new DSD regulations.

Only athletes identified as suspicious are usually tested, which means deciding who is tested can depend on an athlete’s physical appearance. For this system to be full proof, all female athletes, need to be tested for the system to indeed be fair.

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