World Athletics says its decision this week to ban transgender women from competing in elite female sport is based on the “overarching need to protect the female category.”
But the organization’s president Sebastian Coe says the move to exclude trans athletes who have gone through male puberty is about more than that. Coe says the move is about fairness over inclusion, and comes after months of being “inundated” by stakeholders that no other alternative would be acceptable.
“We entered into a consultation some months ago because we wanted to provoke debate,” Coe told a worldwide audience. “It was really important that we heard
