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Statement of the Stockholm consensus on sex reassignment in sports

Why this source is used

Republished IOC press release text on the Stockholm consensus recommendations for athletes who had undergone sex reassignment.

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Start with the answer How did trans and nonbinary athletes change sport policy debates? They made eligibility rules, Olympic participation, medal visibility and football coming-out milestones central to LGBTQ+ sport history. Read the topic guide Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Sport Policy Trans and nonbinary sport history combines Olympic visibility, football coming-out milestones and contested eligibility policy.

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Publisher
International Committee of Sports for the Deaf
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3 pages

Source Links

Open original source https://www.ciss.org/ioc-press-release-1 Accessed 5 June 2026 Open archived copy https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.ciss.org/ioc-press-release-1

Used by Topics

Trans and Nonbinary Athletes and Sport Policy

Used by Questions

How did trans and nonbinary athletes change sport policy debates?

Used by Timeline Events

2004 LegalInternationalTrans

IOC Adopts First Guidelines Allowing Transgender Athletes to Compete

Following a committee meeting in Stockholm in October 2003, the IOC adopted the 'Stockholm Consensus', permitting transgender women to compete in the female category provided they had completed genital surgery, undergone at least two years of hormone therapy, and legally changed their gender. No openly transgender athletes competed at the Olympics under these rules until 2021.