Should transgender athletes be allowed to compete in the Olympics?

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SF Gate

Last month, the International Olympic Committee enacted a policy on transsexuals before an elite athlete could force the question. The committee said transgender athletes could compete in the Olympics if they met certain requirements, such as completing genital reconstructive surgery and at least two years of hormonal therapy. The IOC also requires that "legal recognition of their assigned sex has been conferred by the appropriate official authorities," such as by a nation's courts.

The committee's medical director, Patrick Schamasch, said the policy was designed "more to protect the athlete who has not been sex reassigned than to help the person who is." If an athlete follows the new rules, he said, "we are almost sure that the advantage of the previous gender will have completely disappeared."

Helen Carroll, coordinator of the Homophobia in Sports Project at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, praised the decision as "a precedent that really embodies a sincere attempt to be fair to all athletes."

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