appConfigEntityId

bodyType

customContents

entityId

entityUuid

isVideo

articlePageQuery

article

articleSchemaContent

content

hooksArticlePageAdvertisementConfigArticle

hooksArticlePageFloatingButtonConfigArticle

appConfig

filter

json

liveArticle

Agence France-Presse

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday it was reintroducing testing for gender to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing.
The screening will mean Olympic women’s sports at the 2028 Los Angeles Games will be limited to biological females, which would also rule out those with differences in sexual development (DSD) from competing.
The IOC is abandoning rules it brought in in 2021 which allowed individual federations to decide their own policy and implementing a policy across all sports.
“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, determined on the basis of a one-time SRY gene screening,” the IOC said in a statement.
The test will be carried out through a saliva sample, cheek swab or blood sample.


IOC president Kirsty Coventry said: “The policy we have announced is based on science and has been led by medical experts.
“At the Olympic Games even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat.
“So it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe.”
The IOC is bringing in the new policy after the women’s boxing competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics was rocked by a gender row involving Algerian fighter Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan.
Khelif and Lin were excluded from the International Boxing Association’s 2023 world championships after the IBA said they had failed eligibility tests.
However, the IOC allowed them both to compete at the Paris Games, saying they had been victims of “a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA”.
Both boxers went on to win gold medals.
Lin has since been cleared to compete in the female category at events run by World Boxing, the body that will oversee the sport at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Gender testing was first introduced at the 1968 Olympics and last used at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta but then scrapped after criticism from the scientific community.


Pentathletes test American Ninja Warrior skills in Beijing as warm-up for the LA Olympics

Russia’s equestrian federation latest to be allowed back into international sporting fold

Addition of cricket at LA Olympics offers IOC access to 2 billion fans, Indian market

IOC eases path towards Russia return at LA Games, but World Athletics ban remains

IOC (International Olympic Committee)

Olympic women’s sport to be limited to biological females

Algeria’s Imane Khelif poses after defeating China’s Yang Liu to win gold in their women’s 66kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Photo: AP

Malaysia, Indonesia top global poll on ‘obedient’ wives

A Malaysian couple hold hands. A new study has found that 60 per cent of respondents from Malaysia agreed with the statement that “a wife should always obey her husband”. Photo: Shutterstock

A newly wed couple smile during their wedding in Selangor near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: AFP

Women in Indonesian traditional kebaya dress attend a fashion show in Jakarta. Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Women shop for Valentine’s Day gifts at a department store in Tokyo. Photo: AFP

Nurse to archbishop: Mullally enthroned as first woman to lead Church of England

Sarah Mullally arrives for her installation ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral. Photo: Reuters

The enthronement ceremony inside Canterbury Cathedral. Photo: AP

Members of the clergy and the congregation applaud newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally. Photo: AFP

Prince William and Princess Catherine. Photo: AP

US women’s ice hockey captain responds to ‘distasteful’ Trump remark

Hilary Knight celebrates during the medal ceremony for Women’s Ice Hockey in Milan, Italy, on February 19. Photo: TNS

The US men’s Olympic ice hockey team, with Connor Hellebuyck in front, attend US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Photo: TNS

News

World

The IOC will reintroduce testing to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing


The IOC will reintroduce testing to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing.


Olympic women’s sport to be limited to biological females

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The IOC will reintroduce testing to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing

The IOC will reintroduce testing to determine eligibility to compete in the female category, preventing transgender women from competing