I cannot believe the IOC caved to the bigots and the orange fascist. The TERFS won.
Apparently, they did a scientific review and found that transwomen retained some physical advantages even after going on hormone therapy. What a bunch of bullshit wrapped up as "scientific."
Because even if transwomen are on average 5 inches taller with more muscle mass, larger lungs, denser bones and other advantages, that doesn't matter because transwomen ARE women. So it doesn't matter what any advantages they have, because they're women regardless.
And they're biological women because I'm pretty sure all transwomen are made of biological stuff.
I hope they get their asses sued under CA law.
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
Monday November 10 2025, 11.15am GMT, The Times
Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics at the Tokyo Games in 2021
The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.
The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category.
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.
Coventry won 200m backstroke gold for Zimbabwe at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and in Beijing four years later
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.
It is understood the IOC is likely to announce its new policy early in the new year, possibly around the IOC session at the Milan-Cortina winter Olympics in early February.
Some work remains to be done to ensure the new policy is legally watertight. Until now the IOC’s policy has been based on recommendations and guidance to sports rather than actually being part of its eligibility rules.
The ban is expected to come into force before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. That would avoid any clash with the US president, Donald Trump, who has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories. Trump has claimed it would mean the US would deny visas for transgender athletes trying to compete in LA.
Khelif won welterweight gold at the Olympic Games in Paris last year
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.
Coventry, a former Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe who was elected this year, said in June: “We understand there will be differences depending on the sports. We should make the effort to place emphasis on the protection of the female category and we should ensure that this is done in consensus with all the stakeholders. But we need to do that with a scientific approach and the inclusion of the international federations who have already done a lot of work in this area.”
The new policy is also likely to cover DSD — those who were raised as girls from birth but have male chromosomes and male levels of testosterone.
That follows the huge controversy at the boxing tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics when two boxers, Imane Khelif from Algeria and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, won gold medals despite having been disqualified from the previous year’s World Championships for allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria.
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.
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