FILE PHOTO: Drone view of the Olympic rings in front to International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 19, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File PhotoA group of 26 academics have challenged the International Olympic Committee's framework on the inclusion of transgender athletes in sport, saying it does not protect fairness for women nor align with scientific or medical evidence.
"Sports face the uncomfortable reality that the inclusion of transgender women in female sports categories cannot be reconciled with fairness, and in some instances safety, for females in athletic sports." The paper said the framework's instruction that federations make"no presumption of advantage" due to an athletes' transgender status ignores the permanent advantage held by anyone who has been through male puberty.
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