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Transgender women in women's sport - how it happened.

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andyoldlabour · 19/02/2019 10:28

I have been looking back at all the (considerable) information I have collated over past four months or so, and I was trying to find the IOC regulations regarding transgender women and when the decision was made to allow them to compete in women's sport.
The meeting happened in Lausanne in November 2015, and as far as I can tell, most of the World's individual sporting organisations will be bound by these rules.

stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Medical_commission/2015-11_ioc_consensus_meeting_on_sex_reassignment_and_hyperandrogenism-en.pdf

2.Those who transition from male to female are eligible to compete in the female category under the following conditions:2.1.The athlete has declared that her gender identity is female. The declaration cannot be changed, for sporting purposes, for a minimum of four years.2.2.The athlete must demonstrate that her total testosterone level in serum has been below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to her first competition (with the requirement for any longer period to be based on a confidential case-by-case evaluation, considering whether or not 12 months is a sufficient length of time to minimize any advantage in women’s competition).

www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/25/ioc-rules-transgender-athletes-can-take-part-in-olympics-without-surgery

Former IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist who was present at the meeting, said the consensus was driven by social and political changes.

So, forget the biology and physiology, simply let the touchy feely stuff rule.

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QuietContraryMary · 19/02/2019 11:59

AIR women's levels do not typically exceed 2 nmol/l, above 2nmol/l is PCOS, and indicative of an underlying illness, associated with obesity and other things not consistent with athletic performance.

andyoldlabour · 19/02/2019 11:58

I wondered if it may have been covered before, but there are so many people asking questions about this subject that I felt it may educate some folks who are not aware of the IOC policy which has allowed transgender women to freely compete against women.

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Ribosomes · 19/02/2019 10:33

Women's testosterone levels vary from 0.7 to 2.8 nmol/l

Nmol being different to ng.

Levels being permitted are significantly higher than the top level of normal female levels.

RiverTam · 19/02/2019 10:31

there was a long thread on MN about that at the time and it's certainly what peak transed me and a lot of other women. The fact that a man could compete against women with 3 times the amount of testosterone in him, alongside all the other physical advantages of course, was too much.

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