Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups, including the United Nations, have criticized the International Olympic Committee's new gender eligibility guidelines that mandate genetic sex testing and ban transgender, intersex and sex-difference athletes from competing in women's categories, calling the policy discriminatory and unsupported by science. The IOC's decision reverses its 2021 Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination, with critics arguing mandatory sex testing violates fundamental human rights and that evidence shows transgender women receiving hormone therapy are not meaningfully different from cisgender women in performance-related measures.
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Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups, including the United Nations, have criticized the International Olympic Committee's new gender eligibility guidelines that mandate genetic sex testing and ban transgender, intersex and sex-difference athletes from competing in women's categories, calling the policy discriminatory and unsupported by science. The IOC's decision reverses its 2021 Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination, with critics arguing mandatory sex testing violates fundamental human rights and that evidence shows transgender women receiving hormone therapy are not meaningfully different from cisgender women in performance-related measures.