World Athletics

The ban takes effect on March 31, the date of the International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Barbra Banda is a cisgender woman who is being told her body disqualifies her from playing women’s soccer.

“At what point is a girl ‘too tall’ … ‘too strong,’ ‘too good,’ ‘too fast,’ ‘too masculine’ to then be accused of being transgender?” one trans athlete asked.

International sports bodies are grappling with the issue and coming up short.

World Athletics justified their ban of women with higher testosterone levels by citing a scientific study. Now the authors say it was only “exploratory.”

The white male athlete said that the African woman is faster than he was at her age, so she must be a man.

“I refuse to let World Athletics drug me or stop me from being who I am.”