According to The Times, the IOC is expected to announce its decision on the gender issue early next year, perhaps in conjunction with its meeting during the Milan and Cortina Olympics. There is still some legal planning to be done before the new policy can be unveiled.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has previously recommended that transgender women can compete if their testosterone levels are lowered, but has left it up to individual sports federations to decide. This summer, the IOC decided to set up an investigation into the gender issue.
The International Biathlon Union (IBU) announces that they are following the IOC's investigation.
Then we have to assess how we view it. It would be excellent for all of us international federations if something emerged that we could rely on, so that things wouldn't be different in different sports, IBU chairman Olle Dahlin tells TT.
–It should be fair for the women's category.
The background to the gender issue being brought up is the female boxers Imane Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting from Taiwan who were allowed to participate in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, despite being stopped from participating in the World Championships the year before after they were gender tested.
Some International Sports Federations have already introduced rules linked to gender and/or testosterone levels.
