Sebastian Coe has promised he will introduce a “clear-cut” policy to protect female sport if he is elected president of the International Olympic Committee. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Setting out his platform for the most powerful role in global sport, Lord Coe has promised to protect the women’s category by changing the International Olympic Committee’s emphasis from human rights to the basic rules of biology.

Coe is one of seven people in the running to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee and has said the present framework for transgender policies is 'not anywhere clear enough'