Advocacy groups call for WTA to drop sex-testing policy

NEW YORK, Aug 13 : The Sport & Rights Alliance on Thursday called on the Women's Tennis Association to drop its sex-testing policy, calling it a discriminatory measure in the game.The women's tennis tour said last month it would require players to clear a one-time gene test for the SRY gene, which helps in determining biological sex and can be conducted via cheek swab or blood test."The WTA can claim it does not intend to cause harm, but good intentions will never erase the stigmatisation and trauma that women and girls will suffer due to sex testing," said Andrea Florence, the executive director of the Sport & Rights Alliance, a coalition of advocacy groups.Reuters was not immediately able to reach the WTA for comment. The move came after the International Olympic Committee announced in M