Last month’s decision by swimming’s apex body FINA followed a group of sports governing bodies beginning to review their policy on the participation of transgender athletes in the women’s sport.
Last month’s decision by swimming’s apex body FINA followed a group of sports governing bodies beginning to review their policy on the participation of transgender athletes in the women’s sport.
Transgender athletes banned Or do not respect the principles of the Olympic Charter with the Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) president Fabio Pigozzi said on Friday.
Last month’s decision by swimming’s apex body FINA followed a group of sports governing bodies beginning to review their policy on the participation of transgender athletes in the women’s sport.
FINA voted as part of its new policy to ban anyone who goes through male puberty from elite women’s competitions and to establish an “open” category for transgender swimmers in some events. To form a working group.
“The boycott of transgender or DSD athletes is not in line with the Olympic Charter,” Pigozzi, who is also president of the national anti-doping organization, said at a FIMS panel on the subject at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) in Rome.
“Athletes should not be pressured to undergo procedures or medical treatment to meet the entry requirements of a competition.
“Modern society needs to reflect on the idea that gender categories cannot be divided according to a mere binary.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended its position that it is up to each international sporting body to set its own rules for the inclusion of transgender athletes following FINA’s decision.
CONI President Giovanni Malago told the FIMS panel that the IOC had set up a commission to help sports bodies decide whether transgender and DSD athletes are eligible to participate in high-level competitions.
“This is part of the IOC’s commitments to respect human rights and to favor gender equality and inclusion,” Malago said.