Our Chief Investigator A, Associate Professor Morgan Carpenter, was interviewed by Sally Sara on ABC Radio National Breakfast, on 12 February.
World Athletics has announced that it intends to introduce cheek swab and blood testing for all elite women athletes. The test aims to identify the SRY gene.
Morgan has written on issues facing women with certain IVSCs in sport. Find out more in the links below.
Our community partner InterAction for Health and Human Rights made a submission to World Athletics, as did the Australian and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes.
Australia and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes. 2025. ‘Response to World Athletics Re Sex Differentiation’. https://media.anzsped.org/2025/03/24155441/o_25_02-World-Athletics-response-re-Sex-differentiation.pdf.
Carpenter, Morgan. 2024. ‘Is It Ever OK to Reclassify Someone Out of Their Birth-Observed Sex Without Personal Consent? How Do We Manage Competing Methods of Classifying Sex?’ The American Journal of Bioethics 24 (11): 18–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2399853.
InterAction for Health and Human Rights. 2025. ‘Submission on Proposed Guidelines for Women with “DSDs” and Gender Diverse Women’. https://interaction.org.au/41693/submission-world-athletics-2025/.
Karkazis, Katrina, and Morgan Carpenter. 2018. ‘Impossible “Choices”: The Inherent Harms of Regulating Women’s Testosterone in Sport’. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 15 (4): 579–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9876-3.
World Athletics. 2025. ‘Recommendations to the Eligibility Conditions for the Female Category’. https://worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=f60e2417-fcdd-4a13-8ce8-6cf9897e59ce.pdf.