Martina Navratilova supports the Olympic President Hopeful, who suggests prohibiting trans athletes from women’s sports

Former female tennis star Martina Navratilova He expressed his desire to see that former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe became the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The key issue that promotes the support of Navratilova is to prohibit trans athletes from female competition, A problem 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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COE He published his manifesto for his vision as president of the International Olympic Committee (COI), while campaigning for the position in 2025, and emphasized the importance of 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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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 passed 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 about 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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He 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.

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