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Olympic Ban on Transgender Women in Female Competition Hailed for 'Common Sense' by UN

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The United Nations' special rapporteur on violence against women and girls has praised the International Olympic Committee's newly announced eligibility rules for the 2028 Games as a "common sense" decision.Under the policy confirmed last week, the IOC will mandate that competitors in women's categories must have been born female.All athletes must complete a one-time screening process before competing.Reem Alsalem, the UN official responsible fo…

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A week after the International Olympic Committee announced a new policy on the protection of the category of women in Olympic sport, which means that only biological women can participate in the Games, Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur for women, was in favour and proposed that transgender athletes receive retroactive "parallel medals" as compensation.

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The UN rapporteur for women, Reem Alsalem, this Thursday welcomed the recent decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow only biological women to compete in women’s sport, and proposed that aggrieved women in the past receive compensations such as parallel medals retroactively. Although the IOC specified that the new regulations will begin to apply at the 2028 Olympic Games, without retroactive character, “it does not prevent …

·Chile
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