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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.
According to Outsports, there were at least 199 out athletes (including those who debuted earlier) at the 2024 Summer Olympics, which they reported as the most athletes competing in one edition of the Games who were widely out beforehand; Outsports also noted the record number of out male athletes, though most of the LGBTQ+ Olympians were ...
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 ...
The policy allows transgender athletes to compete in the sport category that aligns to their gender identity. Transgender women are permitted to compete in a men's UTSNZ competition. If a transgender woman has undergone testosterone suppression for 12 months, she may also compete in women's competitions. [208]
In a statement to AP, the WPA said transgender athletes in its women’s competitions are required to declare their gender identity for sporting purposes is female and provide evidence that their ...
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a roundtable with reporters that the guidelines governing the participation of transgender women in Olympic sports are outdated.
Only a handful of openly transgender and non-binary athletes have ever competed at the Olympics. New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was the first openly transgender woman to compete at an ...
Transgender athletes were first allowed to compete in 2004. [54] In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, only 15 athletes out of the 10,708 participants were openly gay, lesbian or bisexual. Of them only two, including Matthew Mitcham (who also won a gold medal, making him the first openly gay Olympic champion), were male.