The Court of Human Rights agrees with Caster Semenya: “Discriminated on sex”
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“Discrimination based on sex”. The European Court of Human Rights found the CAS wrong for not having ensured Caster Semenya, the middle-distance Olympian and Olympic champion, the possibility of contesting “discrimination based on sex and sexual characteristics”.
The subject of the matter, the sporting regulation which requires Semenya, two-time Olympic champion on the 800 meters, to undergo hormone treatments to lower her natural testosterone level in order to be able to compete over certain distances.
Semenya had appealed to the CAS, losing it, against the rule of the international athletics federation (World Athletics) which obliges athletes with “different sexual development” to take contraceptives to lower their testosterone. A discrimination to which the European Court of Human Rights has put an end.
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