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Aryna Sabalenka, the current number 1 in the world in women’s singles tennis, is reacting to the Women’s Tennis Association’s new policy.

What is the new WTA policy?

The WTA updated their policy just a few weeks ago.

They share that the new women’s eligibility policy will include gender screening “based on biological sex” and they say this is “to preserve the integrity of women’s professional tennis and maintain fair competition conditions for all players.”

“In this policy, ‘biological male’ means an individual who, regardless of their legal sex or gender identity, has an SRY gene and therefore has or previously had testes or streak testes; and ‘biological female’ means an individual who, regardless of their legal sex or gender identity, has no SRY gene and therefore has or previously had ovaries or streak ovaries,” the policy continues.

They added that there is “no intent to disrespect or question the gender identity or the dignity of any person.”

What did Aryna Sabalenka say in response to the policy change?

“I think it’s really important to keep the fairness in our tour. It’s obviously, biologically, the men are way stronger than women, so I feel like it would be not really fair for the woman to compete against biological man,” she said in a press conference.

“I believe it took them a little while to make this decision and, yeah, I support it. But for me, I’m focusing on myself, on my goals, you know, whatever it takes. If they want to test us all, I’m happy to do that; it’s pretty fair, and let’s keep it that way.”

Aryna is not the first female athlete to have this view recently.

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