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Olympics set to announce transgender athletes are banned from all female events in 2028 games<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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The place of transgender athletes at the top of international sporting events is set to change<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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A ban on transgender women participating in the Olympics looks set to be announced, with all affected athletes barred from the upcoming games in 2028.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This major overhaul of rules surrounding the role of\u00a0transgender<\/a>\u00a0women at the top end of sport follows reports of a lengthy scientific review of evidence regarding the potential biological advantages of being born male.<\/p>\n

The expected significant change in\u00a0International Olympic Committee<\/a>\u00a0(IOC) guidance for female competition is likely to take effect from next year,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to The Times.<\/p>\n

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No such rules have reportedly been implemented for trans men, however.<\/p>\n

Although the rules around transgender participation have been a matter of highly fraught debate for well over a decade, competition guidelines for female athletes have largely been based on acceptable levels of testosterone, with each\u00a0sport<\/a>\u00a0setting its own rules on participation.<\/p>\n

The IOC’s newest president, Kirsty Coventry, has previously spoken of ‘overwhelming support’ towards protecting the female category of sport.<\/p>\n

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Kirsty Coventry stepped into the IOC role promising to protect women’s sports (STEFANO RELLANDINI\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In June, after her election to the role, Coventry said: “There was overwhelming support that we should protect the female category. And with that, we will set up a working group made up of experts and international federations.<\/p>\n

“It was agreed by the members that the IOC should take a leading role in this. And that we should be the ones to bring together the experts and the international federations and ensure that we find consensus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that there will be differences depending on the sports. But it was fully agreed that as members that, as the IOC, we should make the effort to place emphasis on protection of the female category.”<\/p>\n

According to The Times, medical and scientific director Dr Jane Thornton had presented the early findings of a scientific review into the impact that differences in\u00a0sexual<\/a>\u00a0development can have on fair competition.<\/p>\n

Sources told the publication that Dr Thornton’s findings supposedly showed that people who are born male retain a physical advantage over cisgender women, even when testosterone levels are controlled for.<\/p>\n

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Guidelines for female athletes have previously mostly been based on levels of testosterone (Getty Stock Photo)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“It was a very\u00a0scientific<\/a>, factual and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence,” one source claimed.<\/p>\n

An IOC spokesperson has since issued a statement on the matter,\u00a0telling<\/a>\u00a0Sky News: “An update was given by the IOC medical and scientific director to the IOC members last week at the commission meetings.<\/p>\n

“The working group is continuing its discussions on this topic and no decisions have been taken yet. Further information will be provided in due course.”<\/p>\n

The Times further reports that it is believed that the IOC will announce its new policy early in the new year, possibly around the Milan-Cortina winter Olympics in early February.<\/p>\n

It is also reported to be covering differences of sex development (DSD), which are rare conditions which make a person’s reproductive, hormonal, or chromosomal sex atypical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n

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US Olympic and Paralympic Committee make major call on transgender athletes competing in sports<\/h1>\n

After Donald Trump returned to the White House, he signed an executive order recognizing male and female as the only two sexes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has made a call on transgender athletes competing in sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just hours after\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0returned to the White House for a second term as president back in January, he signed an\u00a0executive order<\/a>\u00a0recognizing male and female as the only two sexes.<\/p>\n

The order states: \u201cInvalidating the true and biological category of ‘woman’ improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

The POTUS has previously said that ‘the war on women’s sports is over’ adding: \u201cMy administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now the USOPC seems to have essentially barred transgender women from competing in women’s\u00a0sports<\/a>, writing in a letter that they have a responsibility to ‘comply with\u00a0federal expectations<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

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The committee has made a call (Getty Stock Image)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The new policy was marked with a quiet change on the committee’s website, meanwhile USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and President Gene Sykes wrote in a letter: \u201cAs a federally chartered organization, we have an obligation to comply with federal expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur revised policy emphasizes the importance of ensuring fair and safe competition environments for women. All National Governing Bodies are required to update their applicable policies in alignment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials told other governing bodies to ‘update’ their policies to align with the change.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, following the move, the National Women’s Law Center issued a statement, with president and CEO Fatima Goss Graves explaining: \u201cThe world is watching with alarm at the loss of freedom and opportunity in our country, especially as the\u00a0United States<\/a>\u00a0is expected to host future\u00a0Olympic<\/a>\u00a0events. The Committee will learn – as so many other institutions have – that there is no benefit in appeasing the endless, shifting, and petulant demands coming out of the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The US president signed an executive order shortly after he was inaugurated (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The CEO continued: \u201cBy giving into the political demands, the USOPC is sacrificing the needs and safety of its own athletes. The vagueness of the Committee\u2019s policy will leave athletes unprotected from humiliating sex-testing practices. Athletes will now be subject to intrusive questioning and demands for traumatizing physical exams as they prove they are women enough to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe USOPC should devote its energy to the real and serious disparities harming women athletes: fewer chances to participate across all sports compared to boys and men; worse facilities, coaching, and equipment placing girls and women at greater risk of injury; and endemic sex harassment and assault perpetrated against women athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump has previously said that ‘the war on women’s sports is over’ (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since Trump came back into power, over 20 states have brought in laws barring transgender women from participating in certain sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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