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Genel and Joanna Harper, a transgender runner-turned-scientist who is actively studying retained physical advantages in trans athletes, and who has also consulted with the IOC, both said they ...
The IOC, in revealing an updated "framework" that clashes with those rules, outlined 10 new principles. It encouraged each sport-specific international federation to follow those principles in ...
Mosier is considered the catalyst for the change [62] in the IOC policy on transgender athletes in 2015, when he challenged the policy after initially being banned from the world championship race. Mosier also became the first known transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Trials in the gender with which they identify, and the first trans ...
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:
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 ...
The IOC moved away from testosterone requirements in its new framework for the eligibility of transgender and intersex athletes.
The IOC has largely stayed out of the discussion around transgender athletes, letting the international governing bodies for each sport set the parameters for gender participation. The rules can run the gamut. Entities like World Aquatics have very strict guidelines, while World Triathlon rules are more liberal.
Transgender athletes are competing in Tokyo in the Olympics for the first time as the International Olympic Committee prepares new protocols.