women's tennis they support someone yet in her campaign on the other hand you've got someone like paula radcliffe who holds the record for martha in math and who supports the measures saying that they protect women's sports there really are no easy answers on this phil and i think i can't see that changing in the near future either so where does the case go from here well as i said so many can still appeal to a swiss tribunal that has to take place within the next thirty days if she's going to do that however the rules a currently due to go into action on the eighth of my now this could mean already that women who want to compete at the world championships in september may have to start taking medication to lower their hormone levels already next week so this is something we're going to be hearing a lot about is already in the next couple weeks i think all the way up to the champions chips in september we're going to see who is actually competing if anyone pulls out because of these rules and then of course how competitive those athletes are who have had to. alter officially reduce the level of t

world record marathon holder, paula radcliffe is among those who've been backing the governing body on it's notjust the government that backs her, the un human rights council also supported ms semenya's appeal. earlier i spoke to our gender and identity correspondent, megha moha. so the question here is, we are talking about eligibility for sport but we're also talking about the definition of what a woman is now in 2019. as far as we know, caster semenya has been born and raised a woman, a woman with intersex trouble. she is not transgender, she is not born a boy in the transition later, she was born as a girl. just describe what exactly it is to have dsd or hyper interactionism. which is also the same as intersex traits, they preferred to be called in that term, but dsd which is a sex development, highly medicalized term. a0 different variations of it and according to the un, we do not know the entire level but it is between 9.5% and 1.7% of the world, so that would be on the upper level, as many people who have red hair. on the upper level. so that can work from chromosomal differenc