Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups have criticised the new gender eligibility guidelines as ‘a blunt and discriminatory response’

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday

According to the statement, eligibility for the female category is to be determined in the first instance by SRY gene screening to detect the absence or presence of the SRY gene

Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups have criticised the new gender eligibility guidelines as ‘a blunt and discriminatory response’