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Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male

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The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into transgender athletes and competitors with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.

Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.

“It was a very scientific, factual and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence,” one source said. Another IOC insider said there had been hugely positive feedback from IOC members about the presentation.
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(Nov 11, 2025 07:27 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male [...]

If this decision reached beyond the IOC, it might be mildly interesting to see if the following years featured a dip in mediocre male athletes surgically and hormonally transitioning to female. As it is, though, things should remain more or less steady. And still might, even if otherwise. A war between "Do I want to remain an active athlete or do I want to be a substantively physical woman?" might (surprisingly?) result in the latter winning out.

Apparently the IOC is actually responding to changes already made in a lot of athletic organizations.

Some sports such as athletics and swimming have already brought in a ban on athletes who have been through male puberty taking part in female competition but others, including football, have not.
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World Boxing, the new international boxing federation which has been recognised by the IOC since Paris, has now introduced mandatory sex testing and has said Khelif will not be able to compete in the female category until she undergoes the test.