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Restrictions on athletes who are transgender or with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) do not respect the principles of the Olympic Charter, International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) president Fabio Pigozzi said on Friday.

A raft of sport governing bodies started reviewing their policy on the involvement of transgender athletes in women’s sport following last month’s ruling by swimming’s top body FINA.

“The exclusion of transgender or DSD athletes does not conform to the Olympic Charter,” Pigozzi, also the president of the National Anti-Doping Organisation, said at a FIMS panel on the topic at the Italian Olympic Committee in Rome. “Athletes should not be pressured into undergoing procedures or medical treatments to satisfy the entry requirements of a competition. “Modern society needs to consider the idea that gender categories cannot simply be divided according to a binary.

 

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What utter nonsense. Nobody has to undergo any medical treatment in order to compete. They are free to compete in their sex class unfettered.

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