Good for Dutee Chand, the teenage sprinter from India with courage and resolve who vowed not to change her body to suit someone else’s idea of woman.
Last fall, she challenged a rule made by track’s international governing body that barred her from competing against other women because her natural level of testosterone was too high. She said no way would she take hormone-suppressing drugs to lower that testosterone level. No chance that she — a healthy, strong 18 year old — would have surgery to limit how much testosterone her body produces.
On Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sport’s highest court, announced that it had ruled in her favor.