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Advocacy Groups Urge IOC to Abandon Sex Testing

3/19/2026

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  • Ninety sports and human rights advocacy groups urge the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to stop sex testing for 2028 Olympics.
  • They say such tests, abandoned in the 1990s for harm, would set women’s sports back 30 years.
  • Kirsty Coventry, president of the International Olympic Committee, hinted at excluding transgender women from competition.
  • Andrea Florence, executive director of the Sport & Rights Alliance, says reinstating tests would undermine women's rights.