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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.
Thailand's first gold medal would also come in boxing at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, when Somluck Kamsing won the men's featherweight category. Since then, Thai athletes have won gold medals at every subsequent Summer Olympics with the exception of the 2012 Games in London , with all its gold medals to date having come in men's boxing, women's ...
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 suggested Thursday that the Olympics should "absolutely" be gender-neutral during an appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."
As of 2018, there were estimated to be between 4.2 and 5 million LGBTQ people living in Thailand. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Thailand has long had a reputation of tolerance when it comes to LGBTQ people. However, the Bangkok Post noted in 2013 that "while Thailand is viewed as a tourist haven for same-sex couples, the reality for locals is that the law, and ...
Khelif and Lin have competed for years in women’s events, including at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and there is no indication that they identify as transgender or intersex, the latter referring ...
In 2007, the Thai National Assembly debated allowing transgender people to legally change their names after having a sex change operation. [11] The legislature passed a law named Persons' Name Act which created an avenue for transgender people to change their names but not their legal gender. Approval of the request for name change is not ...