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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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a roundtable with reporters that the guidelines governing the participation of transgender women in Olympic sports are outdated.
Transgender activism took off, and the internet was said to be a useful tool for popularising and ultimately globalising equality movements. [37] 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 ...
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 ...