The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan

Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that transgender women athletes would be barred from competing in all Olympic events in the women’s category – but not the men’s events. In addition to trans women athletes, cisgender women with conditions known as DSDs – differences in sexual development – will also be banned from competition. The new rules effectively redefine womanhood – but...

By Moira Donegan