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 work,” the IOC

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