Global sports leaders ‌reached consensus on a new set of eligibility criteria for transgender athletes in February.

For queer historian and writer Michael Waters, the IOC’s announcement elicited a feeling of déjà vu: The institution has ...

The International Olympic Committee's announcement on Thursday that it is reintroducing gender testing to protect the female category, after it was last used at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, raises ...

France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee's new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women's events a "step backwards", but other countries welcomed the ...

Transgender swimmer Ana Caldas has received a five-year ban and was stripped of all competition results between June 2022 and October 2024 by World Aquatics for allegedly refusing to take a gender ...

TOKYO (AP) — The woman whose genetic test in the 1980s led sports leaders to conclude it was too intrusive, not definitive enough and, ultimately, not worth keeping, said she was faced with “a sadness ...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at the centre of a row at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has turned to sport's top court to attempt to overturn the introduction of a gender test, the court said on Monday. The ...

Olympic gold medallist lashes out at IOC and its president, Kirsty Coventry, for asking women to prove themselves.

Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who was the subject of much controversy during the 2024 Paris Olympics, now faces a new challenge. In a statement, World Boxing announced Khelif and all women athletes ...

Issues with this test began decades before this 2025 reboot. The most notable case involved Spanish hurdler María José Martínez-Patiño, who wrote in a 2005 essay in The Lancet that she “passed” her ...