Olympic champ Semenya wins appeal over human rights violations

Caster Semenya, a double Olympic 800m champion, on Tuesday, won her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge whether her rights had been infringed in terms of requiring women with......

From Tokyo to Paris: Trans athletes face new hurdles, restrictions

IMAGE: French sprinter Halba Diouf feels she is being marginalised and hounded after her dream of participating at next year's Paris Olympics was shattered when World Athletics (WA) banned......

New rules to hit Semenya, others hard

World Athletics bans transgender women athletes IMAGE: The tighter rules will impact DSD athletes such as two-times Olympic 800 metre champion Caster Semenya. DSD athletes have male testes but do......

Semenya offered to show body to IAAF officials for proof

Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was 18 to prove she was female, the South African middle-distance runner said in an......

This transgender sprinter's Olympic dream shattered

'We're being hounded' - French transgender sprinter decries Olympics ban IMAGE: French sprinter Halba Diouf, 21, a transgender woman athlete trains in Aix-en-Provence, France. Photograph:......