00:00After years of controversy and intense debate over how sports should balance fairness with inclusion,
00:06International Olympic Committee President Kirstie Coventry has made a landmark decision just one year into her leadership.
00:13At the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, only biological women will be able to compete in the female category.
00:21At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat.
00:26So it's absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category.
00:32The IOC policy will ban transgender women and those with differences in sexual development from competing in all Olympic disciplines.
00:40It says that eligibility will be determined by a once-in-a-lifetime sex test to detect the SRY gene,
00:47which causes male characteristics to develop.
00:49Until now, the IOC left such regulations to governing bodies of individual sports rather than applying a universal approach.
00:57Kasta Semenya, a DSD athlete, declared female at birth, but with male chromosomes and testosterone levels,
01:04won gold in the women's 800 metres at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
01:09She has not competed since refusing to reduce her testosterone levels after World Athletics introduced tighter rules in 2019.
01:17At Tokyo 2020, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman to compete at an Olympics.
01:25A blanket ban on such athletes has been praised by some campaign groups, but has caused anger among others.
01:32It's not science-based, it's stigma-based, it's more, I think, under political pressure.
01:38It could see battles from effective athletes at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
01:43Though in an IOC survey of more than 1,000 athletes and former Olympians, the majority of women were in
01:49favour of the change.
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