Jun 26, 07:00 PM

New IOC Chief Coventry Orders Review of Transgender Eligibility Rules

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry said the organisation will draft new guidelines on the participation of transgender and athletes with differences of sexual development, reversing the IOC’s 2021 policy that left eligibility rules to individual sports federations. Coventry told reporters after her first executive board meeting that a working group of scientists and international federations would be convened within weeks, adding there was “overwhelming support” among IOC members for measures aimed at protecting the female category and ensuring competitive fairness. The shift follows criticism of the IOC’s handling of last year’s Paris Games, where Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting won women’s boxing gold after earlier gender-eligibility disputes. Coventry said the forthcoming framework would draw on approaches already adopted by swimming and athletics but would not revisit past results. Separately, International Boxing Association president Umar Kremlev urged the IOC to strip Khelif of her Paris medal and apologise to female boxers, arguing the Games ignored biological-sex testing the IBA had conducted in 2022-23. The IOC has defended its reliance on legal documentation rather than chromosome tests but indicated that scientific evidence will underpin the new policy.

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New IOC Chief Coventry Orders Review of Transgender Eligibility Rules

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