New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard, who is transgender, in the women's +87kg weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York TimesThe International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics. The IOC, however, is still facing some internal resistance to a ban on athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD), who were reported female at birth but have male chromosomes and male testosterone levels. Such athletes, which include the London 2012 and Rio 2016 gold medallist Caster Semenya, have now been barred by World Athletics from the female category. Will it follow the lead of World Athletics, with its cheek-swab test?

Source: The Irish Times November 10, 2025 21:54 UTC