Tuesday, November 11, 2025

IOC IS ALLEGEDLY ABOUT TO GIVE THE HEAVE-HO TO TRANS ATHLETES

By Bob Walsh

 

 Image: Laurel Hubbard of Team New Zealand competes during the Weightlifting - Women's 87kg+ Group A on day ten of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Aug. 2, 2021.

In 2021, Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand became the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.  
 
 
Various news outlets have reports over the last weekend that the International Olympic Committee is preparing to issue a ruling banning "transgender women" from competing as women in future Olympic competitions.  

Both various city leaders in Los Angeles and President Trump have commented on this issue in the recent past.  Neither has any formal say-so on the matter.  

Previously the IOC has allowed individual sanctioning bodies to make this determination.  Assuming the talking heads have it right, that is about to change.  Appropriately in my opinion.  

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