Transgender Men In Olympics. In this context, the principles contained in the framework are aimed at ensuring that competition in each of these categories is fair and safe, and that athletes are not excluded solely on the basis of their transgender identity or sex variations. The olympic officials’ messages and the record were welcomed.

In striving for gender parity at the olympics, the ioc has also reinforced a gender binary that categorizes athletes as male or female, experts say. In tokyo last summer new zealander laurel hubbard became the first openly transgender athlete to compete at an olympics in a different sex category to that in which they were born what do you.