Trans male skier to compete in 2026 Winter Olympics women’s division

Swedish skier Elis Lundholm will make historical past as the primary overtly transgender athlete to compete within the Winter Olympics.

The Swedish ski crew introduced final month that Lundholm, a organic feminine who identifies as male, is compete in the women’s freestyle ski division in keeping with the present tips of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC).

Lundholm can also be the one overtly transgender athlete competing within the 2026 Olympic Video games in Milan Cortina.

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The Worldwide Olympic Committee permits transgender athletes to compete after being permitted by their respective sports activities federations. (Peter Kneffel/Picture Alliance through Getty Photographs)

The Swedish skier’s inclusion follows the 2021 IOC framework for equity, inclusion and non-discrimination on the premise of gender id and intercourse variations. The framework features a ten-principle strategy in suggestions for every sport to contemplate in eligibility necessities.

“This framework acknowledges each the necessity to make sure that everybody, no matter their gender id or gender variations, can take part in sport in a protected, harassment-free atmosphere that acknowledges and respects their wants and identities, and the significance of everybody – particularly elite-level athletes – to take part in honest competitors the place no participant has an unfair and disproportionate benefit over the remainder,” the doc stated.

Below the present framework, transgender athletes can take part within the Olympics after being permitted by their respective sports activities federations.

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The IOC has allowed Elis Lundholm to compete within the 2026 Winter Olympics within the ladies’s division. (Yara Nardi/Reuters)

In November, experiences circulated that the IOC was contemplating broader transgender eligibility requirements that would forestall organic male athletes from competing in ladies’s sports activities. The claims got here after a presentation by Dr. Jane Thornton, the IOC’s medical and scientific director, who demonstrated bodily advantages in males even after intensive testosterone therapies.

Nevertheless, as of Thursday, no new coverage has been formally introduced.

Fox Information Digital has contacted the IOC for remark.

The gender tips for the Olympics got here below scrutiny on the 2024 Olympics in Paris, the place Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, who beforehand failed gender checks, gained gold medals of their respective boxing weight lessons within the ladies’s division regardless of main uproar. Khelif has insisted they had been ladies. Lin has not commented on the controversy because the finish of the Olympics.

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The IOC will reportedly replace its tips to ban transgender feminine athletes from competing in ladies’s divisions. (AP Picture/Felipe Dana, File)

Whereas the IOC has not but introduced a proper coverage, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) up to date its coverage in July to coincide with President Donald Trump’s government order to maintain males out of ladies’s sports activities.

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The US will host the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles.

Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.