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Click to expand Image Caster Semenya, of South Africa, competes during a heat in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships, Eugene, Oregon, US, July 20, 2022. 2022 Ashley Landis/AP Photo Caster Semenya, a South African Olympic runner, won her discrimination casein the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last week. Yet paradoxically, Semenya and many other women athletes may still be banned from competing in sports under World Athletics regulations. Under these regulations, promulgated by the sports governing body regulating track and field, women like Semenya, who have naturally occurring higher testosterone levels associated with Differences of Sex Development (DSD), are barred from competing - unless they subject themselves to medically unnecessary interventions to reduce their testosterone levels and conform to an arbitrary and subjective standard of femininity. These regulations came into effect in 2019. Sports governing bodies argued that the regulatio