From the Daily Mail: A ban on transgender women competitors is strongly expected to be in place for the 2028 Olympics – but it remains unclear if there will be barriers against athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) after the boxing furore at Paris 2024.
Under the existing rules, each sport is empowered to decide if transgender women can compete if their testosterone levels fall below a designated threshold.
But the International Olympic Committee, under new president Kirsty Coventry, is in discussions about a dramatic policy shift that would impose a blanket ban across all sports for the Los Angeles Games.
Such a move would prevent the kind of scenario that saw Laurel Hubbard contest the weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Hubbard transitioned in 2012.
While Olympic sources have confirmed that such a measure is very much the ‘direction of travel’, it is highly unlikely to come into force before the Winter Olympics in Italy next February.
NOTE: The article above refers to “Transgender women”, which are biological males.
“It was very clear from the members that we have to protect the female category, first and foremost to ensure fairness,” IOC President Kirsty Coventry said in June.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reacted to the report, writing, “This would be a welcome recognition for women’s sports and female athletes in America and around the world. In other news, the sky is blue.”
This would be a welcome recognition for women’s sports and female athletes in America and around the world.
In other news, the sky is blue. https://t.co/O8FakadS5F
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) November 10, 2025
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