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💬 This week:
- Olympics: The IOC will restart gender verification via ‘sex testing’, which it ended 30 years ago after accepting the findings of its own internal report that said it was scientifically flawed and discriminatory.
- India: 1 in 5 Trans+ people globally lost significant rights this week after a change in Indian law, in a week that saw several other countries also roll back Trans+ rights.
- Heteroflexible: Is the label a sign of growing fluidity, or a growing need to hide queerness in a world that is turning against our community? Florence Scordoulis writes in the Queer Gaze.
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The Olympics ended sex testing because it was scientifically flawed and discriminatory - it's back, with a ban on trans women
TL;DR: The International Olympic Committee has announced that, from the Los Angeles games in 2028, all women will be subject to a gender verification 'sex test' that will ban trans women from all Olympic events. Men will not be subject to sex testing.
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