NCAA faces calls to follow World Athletics, enact cheek-swab tests to compete in women's sports

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Track and field is set to become the first Olympic sport to require participants in women’s events to undergo DNA testing to prove their biological sex following a decision by World Athletics.
Aljazeera
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This latest move has been tipped to have significant implications for Kenyan athletes, particularly those competing on the global stage.
Kenyans.co.ke
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Sebastian Coe has vowed to “doggedly protect the female category and do whatever it takes to protect it” after World Athletics became the first sport to introduce DNA tests for elite women athletes.
Irish Times
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The planned changes include reinstating a version of chromosome testing that was discontinued in the 1990s, requiring athletes who compete in the female category to submit to a cheek swab or dry blood-spot test for the presence of a gene that indicates whether the athlete has a “Y” chromosome present in males.
Hindustan Times

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