US EditionIOC Sets New Female Eligibility Rules Excluding Transgender Women for 2028 Olympics
The IOC's new policy mandates a one-time SRY gene test to exclude transgender women and many with differences in sex development from female Olympic events, effective 2028.
- On Thursday, March 26, 2026, the International Olympic Committee announced a new policy limiting female-category event eligibility to biological females, determined by a one-time SRY gene screening effective for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
- IOC President Kirsty Coventry initiated the review to 'protect the female category' following controversies at the 2024 Paris Games and alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order on women's sports.
- Testing for the SRY gene will be conducted once using saliva, cheek swabs, or blood samples, which the IOC claims is 'the most accurate and least intrusive method currently available.'
- While the mandate excludes transgender women from female events, rare exceptions exist for athletes with specific differences in sex development who do not benefit from testosterone, ensuring uniform standards across national federations.
- Human rights groups, including the Sport & Rights Alliance, oppose the mandate, warning it could 'set women's sports back 30 years,' though officials maintain the policy protects fairness, safety, and integrity.
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International Olympic Committee Bans Transgender Women from Female Events
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. The policy explains that, for all disciplines on the sports programme of an IOC event, including the Olympic Games and for both individual and team sports, eligibility for any female category is limited to biological females, according to a release. Sports News | International Olympic Committee Bans Transgender Women from Female Events.
Transgender women are banned from the 2028 LA Olympics by a new IOC policy
Transgender women athletes will be excluded from the Olympics beginning with the 2028 Los Angeles Games after the International Olympic Committee implemented a new eligibility policy on Thursday.
Lausanne, Switzerland. Almost 30 years after having renounced the genetic tests of femininity, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Thursday that it will resume them from the 2028 Olympic Games, which excludes from the female sport transgender athletes and a large part of intersex women. The admission to the female Olympic competitions “is now reserved for people of female biological sex”, not carriers of the SRY gene, explaine…
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