‘I don’t think the public are buying it’: Fallout from the Musqueam agreements

The new International Olympic Committee (IOC) policy targeting trans women at the Olympics will force high-level trans athletes out of competition. That is its simple, stated intention. It also marks a massive rollback for fairness, equality, and access in women’s sports overall. Thousands of female athletes around the world are going to have their access to high-level sport limited because of a witch hunt to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. On March 26, the IOC announced its long-awaited policy on trans women in Olympic sport. Not only are trans women now banned entirely from...