{"id":2145,"date":"2011-04-28T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:28:29","slug":"iaaf-passes-new-policy-on-gender-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/iaaf-passes-new-policy-on-gender-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2011 \u2014 IAAF Passes New Policy on Gender Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2011 the events of Caster Semenya\u2019s gender verification spiralled into an international debate about intersex* conditions and gender, resulting in the IAAF passing a new policy on gender verification, making the tests more specific to suspected cases of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3554857\/\"> \u2018hyperandrogenism\u2019 in elite female athletes<\/a>. The IAAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations, now known as World Athletics) and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) reviewed its regulations and policies, particularly the sections on routine gender verifications for all female athletes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The media spectacle created by Caster Semenya\u2019s gender verification sparked more discussion and led to greater awareness and visibility of intersex and gender non-conformity issues all over the world. This debate and the increasing global awareness of gender and sex variance is still ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Caster-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Caster-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Caster-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Caster-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Caster-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Caster-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2011 the events of Caster Semenya\u2019s gender verification spiralled into an international debate about intersex* conditions and gender, resulting in the IAAF passing a new policy on gender verification, making the tests more specific to suspected cases of \u2018hyperandrogenism\u2019 in elite female athletes. The IAAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,33,248],"tags":[83,249,250],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-intersex","category-sport","tag-caster-semenya","tag-iaaf","tag-ioc"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}