"Because of the way that anti-trans legislation and policies are drawn up these days, 99.9 percent of it is going to impact intersex people, because it's usually just picking a single sex characteristic and saying, This defines maleness and femaleness," said Erika Lorshbough, executive director of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth."
"The reality is much more complicated—for example, not everyone with XY chromosomes even develops testes. The very scientist who discovered the SRY gene opposes policymakers' use of it to screen out trans and intersex women from sports."
"The IOC's policy, which ostensibly allows for exceptions (though they are not clearly delineated), replaces the group's 2021 nonbinding framework, which encouraged sports governing bodies to err on the side of including trans and intersex girls and women in the girls' and women's categories."
"Since 2004, when trans athletes first became eligible for the Olympics, there has been just one trans woman who has competed: New Zealand weight lifter Laurel Hubbard."
The International Olympic Committee has announced mandatory sex testing for all athletes competing in women's sports, starting at the 2028 Games. This policy revives a controversial tradition of sex testing, effectively banning transgender women and most intersex women. The testing will involve a cheek swab or blood work to identify the SRY gene, which is not a definitive indicator of male development. The IOC's new policy replaces a previous framework that supported the inclusion of trans and intersex athletes in women's categories.
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