Trans runner barred from Olympics rips World Athletics' decision to 'maintain fairness' in women's sports

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World Athletics has banned transgender women from participating in women's sports at the Summer 2024 Paris Olympics  to "protect the female category."

That means all the work French native Halba Diouf has done is all for naught.

Diouf, born a male, had been looking forward to running for her home country in France, training for the 200-meter race.

The sprinter began treatment to transition as an adult, and French authorities recognized her change in 2021. However, it means nothing for next summer's games.

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French sprinter Halba Diouf, 21, a transgender athlete who dreams to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games, attends a practice session on a track in Aix-en-Provence, France May 3, 2023.  (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes)

Diouf sounded off on the WA's decision, according to Reuters, citing previous rules and regulations that said trans women and athletes with differences in sex development (DSD) could run in events between 400 meters and the mile if their levels of natural plasma testosterone is below five nanomoles per liter. And 100-meter and 200-meter sprinters were clear to race

"I cannot understand this decision as transgender women have always been allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold," Diouf told Reuters. "The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish, and we are being refused that, we are being hounded. ... I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions."

This photograph taken Nov. 15, 2022, in Paris, shows the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games official logo