Chinese authorities have announced that “suspicious-looking” female athletes will be required to take a gender test to prove that that are biological women in order to compete at the Olympic Games in Beijing next month, according to a story posted on timesonline.co.uk.

Olympic officials will be setting up a sex-determination laboratory where the gender identification tests will be given. The story states that these tests will be “conducted with the utmost delicacy by four experts from the Peking Union Medical College Hospital.” The experts have been working for over a year to create a process of testing that will accomplish its goal while ensuring “the minimum of embarrassment” to those women athletes who will be asked to prove that they are in fact female.

Professor Tian Qinjie is among the experts who have helped develop the testing process that will take place at the Beijing games, and has been employed by the gynecological department of the Peking Union Medical College hospital for 30 years. In a public statement he said, “Suspect athletes will be evaluated from their external appearance by experts. They will then undergo four tests, including blood tests, to examine their sex hormones, genes and chromosomes for sex determination.”