Transgender athletes are facing a blanket ban from female categories across every sport at the Olympics after a candidate for the International Olympic Committee presidency backed the measure ...

The IBA, a boxing body that was at the center of the 2024 Olympics controversy — partly elevated by President Trump and others who falsely claimed Khelif is transgender — has been banished ...

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When President Trump ordered a ban on transgender female athletes in women’s sports, he wasn’t looking only at American schools and colleges. He wants a ban that extends to global sports.

Only a handful of openly transgender and non-binary athletes have ever competed at the Olympics. New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was the first openly transgender woman to compete at an ...

Transgender women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become International Olympic Committee president backed a ...

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Trump’s executive order charges Secretary of State Marco Rubio with demanding changes within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bar transgender athletes from single-sex sports.

President Donald Trump is ready to take his fight against transgender athletes to the International Olympic Committee. Trump said Wednesday during a signing ceremony for an executive order aimed ...

Former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe is a candidate to be the next IOC president and has suggested he will take action to prevent transgender inclusion in women's events. Coe published a ...