IOC Bars Transgender Women From Women's Events. Caster Semenya Isn't Transgender. She Still Gets Hit
Credit: Yann Caradec/Wikimedia Commons. On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee announced that transgender women will be barred from competing in women’s events at the Olympics from LA28 onward. Eligibility in any female category will be limited to biological females, determined by a one-time SRY gene screening.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry said the decision was about fairness and safety. “It is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category,” she said. Most of the coverage stopped there.
The transgender ban is the headline. But the IOC’s 10-page policy document also pulls a different group of athletes into the same eligibility net. One of them has two Olympic gold medals.
Credit: Kirsty Coventry/Instagram Born Female. Raised Female. Still Not Female Enough.
Caster Semenya was assigned female at birth in South Africa. She has never transitioned. She competed in women’s track and field from her teens, and she won gold in the 800 meters at both the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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