The Olympics are reportedly adopting a new policy that opens the field of competition to transgender athletes.
The International Olympic Committee received proposed guidelines in November from its 'Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism', which allow for broader policies that would include transgender athletes.
Olympic officials have not confirmed the new guidelines, which have already been adopted by other regulatory sports organizations, but the policy is available on the organization's website.
The policy change would be in line with NCAA standards in the United States, which allow male-to-female and female-to-male transgender athletes to compete without having gender reassignment surgery, according to ESPN.
2 comments:
Well, it certainly kills women's sports.
I have an unfortunate picture in my mind's eye of women's beach volleyball ... And of course any competition requiring strength is going to be dominated by men pretending to be women.
Katherine, True, plus I think this will drive out the hereto normative competitors, so the Olympics will shortly become a freak show.
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