GENEVA (AP) — The names of experts appointed to an Olympic panel looking at female gender issues are not being revealed, the IOC said on Friday in confirming its creation.

A working group on “Protection of the Female Category” in sports was promised by the International Olympic Committee’s first female president Kirsty Coventry when she was elected in March.

A key campaign theme was the IOC taking more strategy-setting responsibility in fallout from the furor around women’s boxing at the Paris Summer Games that was widely used as a culture war issue . The governing bodies of boxing and track and field now require female athletes to take sex tests .

“The names of the members of the working group will remain confidential for now to protect the integrity of the group and their

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