The former female tennis star, Martina Navratilova, expressed her desire to see that the former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe became the next president of the International Olympic Committee (COI).
The key issue promoted by Navratilova’s support is to prohibit trans athletes from female competition: a problem of the former tennis star has been an outstanding defender.
“The change of IOC can alter DSD (differences in sexual development) Trans rules: Here expects Seb Coe to be the next president!” Navratilova wrote in an X publication while sharing an article that establishes COE’s positions.
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Former Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova receives the golden racket during Italian tennis internationals in the Italic forum. Rome (Italy), May 21, 2023. (Massimo Insabato/Archivio Massimo Insabato/Mondadori Portfolio through Getty Images)
Female athlete protection.
Unlike the current president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, COE opposes trans inclusion in the women’s category, and said he would explore a complete prohibition of trans athletes in a previous interview with Sky News.
“We will have a very clear policy that will not be ambiguous,” Coe said. “We have been very clear in world athletics that transgender athletes will not compete in the female category at the elite level.”
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Lord Sebastian Coe speaks during a commemorative service for Kevan Gosper Ao in the Olympic Hall in the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 17, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. Gosper was Olympic, former president of AOC and vice president of the IOC, who died on July 19, 2024 after a brief disease. (Daniel Pockett/Getty images for AOC)
COE refused to affirm whether to advocate mandatory sexual eligibility evidence for Olympics.
COE is the current head of Athletics World: the Government Body for International Athletics Competition. In 2023, the governing body harden its regulations on trans athletes to exclude transgender women who have gone through male puberty to compete in the women’s category. This regulation also reduced the maximum level of testosterone for eligible female competitors.
COE said that if he becomes president of the IOC, the new Olympic policy on trans inclusion “probably” will reflect what has established in world athletics.
While criticizing COI’s current policies on the subject, COE referred to an incident in recent Olympics in Paris. The recent summer games were eclipsed by the controversy when Imane Khelif de Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan won gold medals in the female boxing.
Both athletes had previously disqualified international competitions to fail in gender eligibility tests. However, the COI and current President Thomas Bach supported the inclusion of both athletes, insisting that they were qualified to compete as women under the current rules.
Coe said previously that the situation involved in Khelif and Lin made him feel “uncomfortable”, in a November interview with the BBC. It has been confirmed that none of the athletes is transgender.
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Imane Khelif de Argeria (in red) hits Angela Carini in Italy in the preliminary round of 66 kg female 16 boxing games during the Olympic Games of Paris 2024 in the North Paris Arena, in Vilepinte on August 1, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP through Getty Images)
The United Nations The findings of the study published saying that almost 900 biological females have not reached the podium because transgender athletes have defeated them.
The study, entitled “Violence against women and girls in sports“He said that more than 600 athletes did not measure in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, with a total of more than 890 medals, according to the information obtained until March 30.
“The replacement of the women’s sports category with a mixed sex category has resulted in a growing number of athletes that lose opportunities, including medals, when they compete against men,” the report said.
