In a huge win for women, the Olympics is moving to ban biological men from competing in women’s events. Why now, you may ask? Well, this is kind of hilarious. The International Olympics Committee cited the discovery of “scientific evidence of advantages to being born male.” Yes, really. As if that weren’t obvious. Check it out: BREAKING: Transgender athletes are to be banned from female competition at the Olympics following a review of evidence about the sporting advantages of being born male. The new policy may also bar female athletes with ‘differences of sex development’, possibly including… pic.twitter.com/ymKdRnT3C0 — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 10, 2025 BREAKING: The Olympics is set to BAN transgender athletes from women’s events upon discovering “scientific evidence of advantages to being born male.” You discovered it JUST NOW?! pic.twitter.com/D9QLHeLe2N — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 10, 2025 The ban on so-called “transgenders” in women’s Olympic events is set to go into effect under the committee’s new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has vowed to protect women. It’s not official yet, but the policy change is set to be announced ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. We can also thank President Trump for playing a part in this. Another reason the IOC wants to ban transgenders is because of President Trump’s executive order targeting biological men in women’s sports. The Times reported: The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male. The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category. The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into transgender athletes and competitors with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport. Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels. “It was a very scientific, factual and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence,” one source said. Another IOC insider said there had been hugely positive feedback from IOC members about the presentation. It is understood the IOC is likely to announce its new policy early in the new year, possibly around the IOC session at the Milan-Cortina winter Olympics in early February. Some work remains to be done to ensure the new policy is legally watertight. Until now the IOC’s policy has been based on recommendations and guidance to sports rather than actually being part of its eligibility rules. The ban is expected to come into force before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. That would avoid any clash with the US president, Donald Trump, who has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories. Trump has claimed it would mean the US would deny visas for transgender athletes trying to compete in LA. Of course, this new rule also comes after last year’s very controversial Olympics. Telegraph noted: The stricter new IOC policy could also include athletes with differences of sex development, known as DSD. The most high-profile example is Caster Semenya, who won 800 metres gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Two boxers – Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting – won controversial gold medals at the Paris Olympics last year despite allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria at the Boxing World Championships. According to World Athletics data, there have been 135 DSD finalists in elite female athletics competition this century. In a presentation at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this year, Dr Stephane Bermon, the head of health and science, estimated that 151.9 times more DSD athletes had made finals than the DSD incidence in the general population. World Athletics introduced mandatory sex testing ahead of this year’s World Championships, a move Bermon said was necessary because of an “over-representation” of DSD athletes among finalists. The IOC is expected to update its gender policy next year, with officials mindful of the legal ramifications. Governing bodies in the UK, including the Football Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board, introduced a ban on transgender athletes in the female category earlier this year but the ECB is now facing a legal challenge over its policy change. Kudos to Kirsty Coventry for pushing for this change. Still, this is just incredible. It took them this long to realize something that should have been common sense. Ah yes, scientific evidence. Like your eyes. — Walt (@WaltIsHereNow) November 10, 2025