TORONTO, July 11, 2017 – Kristen Worley has settled her human rights application with Cycling Canada, the Ontario Cycling Association and Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Worley sought changes to the policies, guidelines, rules and processes surrounding XY female athletes, gender verification and therapeutic use of required hormones that are captured by anti-doping regulations.
“Today, I am satisfied that the sport of Cycling in Canada and internationally have committed to help advocate for issues facing XY female athletes,” said Worley. “My vision encourages sport and the Olympic Movement to do what it is supposed to do best: harmonizing and celebrating through sport the magic and enormity of our human diversity.”
As a result of the settlement, Cycling Canada and the Ontario Cycling Association have agreed to:
- Review and revise internal policies to embrace human rights;
- Launch awareness and education related to diversity of participants;
- Advocate for the establishment of standards and guidelines related to XY female athletes based in objective scientific research;
- Advocate for individualized Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) conducted by medical personnel with subject-matter expertise;
- Solicit CCES, COC, Sport Canada, Commonwealth Games Federation and the Canadian Minister of Sport to advance this advocacy message to international bodies such as WADA and the IOC.
Brenda Culbert, Worley’s lawyer from the Human Rights Legal Support Centre, praised Worley’s “unrelenting advocacy to raise complex issues in the international and national arena that intersect sport, science, gender and human rights.”
Read the Minutes of Settlement here
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