Female Sport Consortium urges IOC to establish sex verification
- Monday, 11 November 2024
The International Consortium On Female Sport (ICFS) published an open letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urging its Executive Committee to review and re-establish its sex-based eligibility guidelines to restore safety and fairness for female athletes.
The letter, penned by Canadian track and field champion and ICFS founder Linda Blade, calls out the IOC’s failure to consult female athletes to establish its policies since female sex verification was abandoned in 1999. It claims that the progression since then —including the Stockholm Consensus and Transgender Consensus— relinquish female athletes’ rights to safe and fair sport and is a clear violation of the Olympic Charter.
The global XX sports community says ENOUGH and issues our OPEN LETTER reminding @Olympics executives and #ThomasBach of the systematic descent into their untenable position allowing male advantage in women’s #Olympic sports.
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