The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is to necessitate each players to acquisition familial enactment investigating successful bid to vie connected the WTA Tour.
In the latest variation of its women's eligibility policy, which volition travel into effect connected Tuesday, players volition beryllium required to supply a feature swab, humor oregon saliva illustration to trial for the beingness of the SRY cistron which is portion of the Y chromosome and causes antheral characteristics to develop.
Players volition beryllium tested conscionable erstwhile successful their beingness and lone a antagonistic result, showing nary beingness of the gene, volition licence them to vie connected the Tour.
If they trial positive, players volition look further aesculapian appraisal earlier being allowed to play.
The caller argumentation besides requires players to motion a papers that states they could look disciplinary enactment if they garbage testing.
The WTA's erstwhile policy, past updated successful 2024, allowed transgender women to vie connected the Tour if they had lowered their testosterone levels to beneath 2.5 nmol/L continuously for the erstwhile 2 years.
There are nary known transgender women presently playing connected the WTA Tour.
"The WTA's women's eligibility argumentation is designed to beforehand adjacent diversion opportunities successful women's nonrecreational tennis and support just contention for each players participating successful WTA tournaments," the governing assemblage said.
"Since archetypal being introduced successful 1975, the eligibility argumentation has undergone periodic reappraisal successful airy of developments crossed planetary sport.
"Following the astir caller review, which included consultation with WTA members and evolving standards crossed women's sport, the WTA committee approved an updated WTA women's eligibility argumentation opening successful 2026 based connected biologic sex."
It added: "The WTA recognises that this is simply a delicate and analyzable contented and is committed to treating each players with dignity and implementing the argumentation successful a respectful and thoughtful way."
The argumentation alteration comes a twelvemonth aft World Athletics announced caller regulations - brought into effect successful September 2025 - requiring athletes wanting to vie successful the pistillate class for satellite ranking competitions to take a one-time cistron test.
World Boxing besides approved the usage of the SRY trial successful May 2025 erstwhile it introduced mandatory enactment investigating for each athletes wanting to vie successful the women's category.
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