Following years of controversy and debate over transgender and athletes with disorders in sex development (DSD)’s participation in female competition, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has now published “a new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.”
The new policy was announced by the IOC president Kirsty Coventry this past Thursday. Under the policy, “all disciplines on the Sports Programme of an IOC Event, including individual and team sports, eligibility for any Female Category is limited to Biological Females.”
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