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Transgender Sprinter Denied Chance at 2024 Olympics Due to Testosterone Rule

  • Halba Diouf, a 21-year-old French sprinter, has been banned from competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics due to new rules excluding transgender athletes who have gone through male puberty.
  • Diouf left home at 18, began hormone therapy, and legally changed her gender in September 2021 but is now only allowed to compete at local levels.
  • Diouf's endocrinologist says preventing her from competing is discriminatory because she is physiologically, hormonally and legally a woman.
  • LGBT advocacy groups argue the new rules amount to discrimination, while the International Association of Athletics Federations says fairness for biological women must come first.
  • Under the new rules, transgender women can only compete in certain track events if they take medication to suppress their testosterone levels for at least two years..
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