World Athletics is introducing SRY gene test for athletes wishing to compete as females. The changes take effect in September.

Female Canadian athletes have been told that gene tests they recently underwent do not comply with World Athletics' ...

World Athletics has approved SRY gene test for athletes; it will be a once-in-a-lifetime test via cheek swab or blood test; testing is in place in time for Septembers World Championships in Tokyo ...

With the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo just a few weeks away, both powerhouses are racing against the clock to meet ...

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Female Canadian athletes have been told that gene tests they recently underwent do not comply ...

The SRY gene test will be conducted via a cheek swab or blood test, whichever is more convenient. World Athletics has left ...

World Athletics has said that all athletes wishing to compete in the female category will have to take an SRY gene test, but experts are questioning the science behind the decision. Jacqui Wise ...

Fourth vice-president of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Julette Parkes says 16 national female athletes were tested for th ...

SRY creates a protein of the same name, and it’s this protein that activates other male-making genes. Weiss’ team showed that their XY father-daughter pairs carried two SRY mutations that don ...

"If the SRY gene is absent the testes do not form and the fetus develops as a female. People long thought that SRY's only function was to form the testes" said Professor Harley.