Thread by @KirstiMiller30

Importantly the 2021 IOC framework shifts the burden of proof from individual athletes to the international sport federations. It also specifies that inclusion should be the default unless “robust and peer reviewed research” presents evidence that an individual athlete ..

is gaining “a consistent, unfair, disproportionate competitive advantage in performance and/or an unpreventable risk to the physical safety of other athletes.”

Also the IOC has made it crystal clear sports organizations cannot pick and choose the principles. They have to take all 10 of them into account together

The topic of transgender and intersex athlete inclusion is nearly always framed as a debate or controversy between two sides, something the IOC called out in Tuesday’s media roundtable.

WHS law presents sport governing bodies & athletes trans, cis & intersex with a valuable avenue to pivot the discussion away from the moralism of a debate grounded in competing rights to a focus on risks & solutions grounded in a debate about safety.

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Unlike in 2003 & 2015 the IOC has now created a tool with this new framework to help move the conversation forward.

As such, the 10th and final principle states that eligibility criteria should be regularly reviewed to account for any “relevant ethical, human rights, legal, scientific, and medical developments.”

There isn’t a single trans or intersex woman dominating her sport. Even Caster Semenya, the most famous, and arguably most successful, intersex woman athlete doesn’t “dominate” her sport. Caster has won a total of two Olympic gold medals and holds no world records.

By contrast, Usain Bolt has won a total of eight Olympic gold medals and holds three world records. But no one raises claims that Bolt is unfairly dominating his sport; however, such criticisms are levied against Semenya.

Why is it fair for a cis man to win as much as Bolt, but it’s unfair when an intersex woman wins far less than Bolt?

A total of 2 trans women have qualified in the last 9 Olympic Games let alone won a medal. It seems that the integrity of women’s sports is doing just fine.