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A 2018 extended essay analyzed the current IOC rule set in 2015 (testosterone below 10 nmol/L for trans women) and found that "the advantage to trans women afforded by the IOC guidelines is an intolerable unfairness", while they propose to abandon male/female categories in favor of a more nuanced division. [81]
TOKYO — International Olympic Committee officials admitted here at a roundtable with reporters that the guidelines governing the participation of transgender women in Olympic sports are outdated.
Whether to allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports already was a key debate among Olympic leaders before U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that puts pressure ...
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday loosened and walked back its policy restricting the participation of transgender and intersex athletes in Olympic sports, but said it won't enforce ...
Women first competed at the Olympic Games in 1900, with an increased programme available for women to enter from 1924. [9] Prior to 1936, sex verification may have been done ad hoc, but there were no formal regulations; [2] the existence of intersex people was known about, though, and the Olympics began "dealing with" – acknowledged and sought to regulate [1] – intersex athletes ahead of ...
In April 2011, the IOC and IAAF issued statements following meetings between the two. The IAAF issued a new policy for male-to-female transgender athletes, and a second policy on the 'eligibility of females with hyperandrogenism to compete in women's competition'. [5] The 2011 IAAF 'hyperandrogenism policy' stated that:
The swim body’s world-leading rules additionally require transgender women athletes who did not benefit from male puberty to maintain testosterone levels below 2.5 nmol/L. World Aquatics is not actively testing junior athletes. The first step for athletes is that national swim federations “certify their chromosomal sex.”
The IOC moved away from testosterone requirements in its new framework for the eligibility of transgender and intersex athletes.