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https://apnews.com/article/ioc-olympic-transgender-female-eligibility-520cd9cee152a312767a667acf77dbc8

Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics female events by IOC

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on women's sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The International Olympic Committee says “eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females.” Eligibility will be determined by "a one‑time SRY gene screening.” It is unclear how many, if any, transgender women are competing at an Olympic level.

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TC Won't Give In To Lies 3d ago

@samlitzinger

F'ing cowards at the IOC (see 👆)

They could have allowed diff sporting bodies to set biological thresholds, where there is a real difference. Instead, they demonize an entire group.

This will only embolden its rightwing adversaries.

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notthatkindofdoctor 3d ago

@samlitzinger
There are so many ways that genotype doesn't match phenotype, why use it? So stupid. Also shitty that only women have to do gene tests.

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SecondUniverse (she/her/they)3d ago

@samlitzinger Seems to screw intersex athletes with CAIS too. You can have an SRY gene but be completely insensitive to androgens.

Also this test has been done before and abandoned because it was grossly unfair.

#intersex