Transgender athletes, star theme in the IOC electoral campaign

The lace of transgender women in women’s sporting competitions It has become one of the issues of the Star of the Electoral Campaign at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), an agency that in just two weeks, on March 20, will choose its new president.

Gender self -Determination again dividing women before The works and demonstrations of March 8 And sport is one of the scenes where these differences have become brighter.

This International Women Day coincides with the Olympic Electoral Career And the six men and a female candidate to rule the IOC, rector of the World Sport, will have to deal with that controversy as one of the campaign axial axes, at the same height of the sports veto to Russian athletes for the Ukraine war or that is the possibility of paying metallic prizes to the Olympic Champions.

Seven applicants often coincide with the need to “protect” women’s sport and make decisions Based on “medical and scientific tests”, and not “ideology.” In the opinion of the candidates, science has already shown that athletes who grew up as men and then made the move had a physical advantage over their companions.

“There is no support that transgender athletes compete with Olympic games against female athletes, Because they are unfair, “Zimbabuense Kirsty Conct, which could be the first woman to the leader of World Olympism, EFE told EFE.

Studies, she also commented, speaking “a disadvantage” for women when competing against Trans. Coventry She wants the IOC to lead this debate to “reach a common position” and “to protect women’s categories.”

Currently, the IOC has left every freedom of the federation to adjust the participation of transgender athletes and most people have chosen to exclude them from female competitions or conditions that make a move before puberty.

A required debate to set IOC position

The French David Lappartient.

“But the question is If transsexual athlete’s participation will affect the equity of the competition or not (…). We also need to listen to the voices of female athletes. If I were elected president of the IOC, I would propose to make a debate on this issue with doctors, human rights activists, transsexual athletes and female athletes, using scientific data, “he said at an AIPS (International Sports Press Association) meeting.

Lappartient is president of the International Cycling Union (ICU), which decides not to allow transsexuals to compete in the female category: “We concluded that, although testosterone levels could be regulated for four years, Competition justice can be changed. Your body will, in a way, the memory of what is before and it clearly affects the competition.

Among the candidates for the presidency of IOC, the British Sebastian COEIn the head of the World Athletics, it has spoken new and clearer in this regard by pointing that the protection of female categories is for her “completely undeniable”. He also believes that the committee does not have enough clear position and is required to be declared without ambiguity.

A controversy that generates a “social alarm”

As the current vice president of the IOC, the Spanish candidate John John Antonio Samaranch He defends that when this debate comes to the Olympic Executive five years ago the most vulnerable transfer of responsibility to international federations so that each one decided on their sport.

But admitted that the case of boxers in Paris Games She created “Social Alarm”, so the IOC must take a step so that the female sports “will remain safe”, according to the evidence of the scientific “increased today.”

The Algerian Fighter Imane Khelif and the Taiwanese Lin yu-ting The Olympic champions were announced after being wrapped in a major controversy over their previous international boxing association (Other), which asked their status as women. As a backdrop, the differences between the IOC and this are, disabled by corruption. Although the IOC said both athletes were born and grew as women, their participation was associated with the trans controversy of Trans.

In similar terms with the other candidates they have shown Swedish-British Johan Eliasch and the Japanese Morinori Watanabe, Who admits that solving this debate will last a long time.

The Jordanian Feisal to Husseincompleting the list of applicants, working within the Olympic movement with various organisms related to equality, differences -Irs, athletes’ rights and resistance to abuse. He did not deepen the issue of transgender athletes in his program, but during his campaign interviews he did not become sharp as his rivals.

“If there is no advantage shown to the scientist, I do not see why they should be excluded. The Olympic movement speaks about the integration of all sectors of society“He also said at meetings with the AIPs.

He also emphasized the need to guarantee the “security” of transgender athletes so as not to force them to undergo “Risk methods“As long as they meet the conditions to compete. Regardless of the outcome of the Day 20 election, the debate remains open and will require the next president’s preferred attention.