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The first Olympic Games in which an athlete now known to be LGBT+ competed was the 1900 Summer Olympics, also the first LGBT+ Olympic medalist and first contemporaneously out Olympian. [b] LGBT+ Olympians have contested events across over 60 sports, as well as several artistic events. The majority of LGBT+ Olympians are female.
Δ Was known to be widely out prior to their most recent Summer Olympic competition; contemporaneously out while competing † Came out after competing Tables are default sorted by first Games appearance chronologically, then current surname or common nickname alphabetically, then first name alphabetically.
Transgender [110] Balian Buschbaum: b. 1980 Germany: Track and field: Transgender [111] Ivan Bussens: 1960–2007 United Kingdom: Water polo: Gay [112] Jeffrey Buttle: b. 1982 Canada: Figure skating: Gay [113] Erin Burns: b. 1988 Australia: Cricket: Lesbian [114] Karin Büttner-Janz: b. 1952 Germany: Gymnastics: Lesbian [115] Emilie Bydwell: b ...
Trans activist Blossom Brown speaks in front of counter protesters while attending a rally in support of the Netflix transgender employee walkout "Stand Up in Solidarity" to protest the streaming ...
Khelif also won her semifinal match, besting Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in the women’s 66-kilogram division bout Tuesday to advance to Friday’s gold medal match.. Khelif and Lin have ...
These guidelines were in effect for the 2016 Rio Olympics, although no openly transgender athletes competed. [44] In 2021, the IOC approved Laurel Hubbard, a trans woman, to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics in weightlifting. Hubbard became the first out trans woman to compete at the Olympics; she did not complete her lifts and won no medals ...
Competed at four Summer Olympics as an athlete, and as eventing manager in 2008; he was publicly out before the 2004 Games. [106] [74] Carole Thate Δ Netherlands: Hockey: 1992, 1996, 2000: Out by the 2000 Olympics, where she met her future wife, Australian opponent Alyson Annan. [97] [107] Anja Andersen Δ Denmark: Handball: 1996
The new International Olympic Committee framework for transgender and intersex athletes drops policies that required athletes have "medically unnecessary" procedures.