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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

World Athletics proposals to preserve path for trans women in female category

Women's 5,000m runners cast shadows on a running track
World Athletics’ ‘preferred option’ would halve the maximum permitted plasma testosterone for trans women from five nanomoles per litre to 2.5 nmol/L. Photograph: Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty

World Athletics is set to keep the door open for transgender women to compete at the highest level under controversial new proposals that will be voted on in March.

Under the governing body’s “preferred option”, the maximum permitted plasma testosterone for trans women would be halved from five nanomoles per litre to 2.5 nmol/L – and they would also have to stay below the permitted threshold for two years rather than 12 months as is currently the case.

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