Track and field bans transgender athletes, tightens rules for Caster Semenya

The pair of decisions announced Thursday by the World Athletics Council are expected to stoke outrage.

NEW YORK — Editor’s note: The attached video is from 2019, prior to the track and field’s new regulations being announced. 

Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday, while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing.

In a pair of decisions expected to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the same rules as swimming did last year in deciding to bar athletes who have transitioned from male to female and have gone through

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