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American Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz, who identifies arsenic transgender non-binary, reacted to nan International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) argumentation to barroom males from women’s competitions connected Friday.
The IOC announced its caller policy connected Thursday. The statement said it will employment familial testing to verify nan biologic activity of competitors successful women’s events.
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Nikki Hiltz (USA) aft nan women’s 1,500 metre last during nan World Athletics Championships astatine National Stadium connected Sept. 16, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
"All Olympic athletes competing successful women’s sports are now required to acquisition familial activity testing," Hiltz wrote successful a station connected Instagram Stories. "Attacks connected trans group person consistently led to much policing and regularisation of ALL women’s bodies. Everyone is wounded by transphobia.
"Y’all already cognize wherever I guidelines connected this but this argumentation is truthful f---ing stupid and is not solving a problem that exists. I don’t cognize who needs to perceive this but ZERO trans women competed successful nan Paris Olympics. Only ONE trans female weightlifter competed successful Tokyo 2021 and she did not triumph a medal. Can we please extremity obsessing complete trans people? And idk possibly attraction our time, energy, and resources into existent problems women’s sports face?"
Hiltz, who won a metallic badge successful nan 2024 World Indoor Championships and a golden successful nan 2019 Pan American Games, competed successful nan 2024 Paris Olympics.
The IOC said that eligibility for events successful nan women’s class is "now constricted to biologic females, wished connected nan ground of a one-time SRY cistron screening."
"Evidence‑based and expert‑informed, nan argumentation – applicable for nan LA28 Olympic Games onwards – protects fairness, information and integrity successful nan female category."
Nikki Hiltz, of nan U.S.A. celebraters winning nan Women's Wanamaker Mile, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, during nan Millrose Games, successful New York City. Hiltz won pinch a clip of 4:19.64. (Kevin R. Wexler / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
The testing tin beryllium conducted via saliva, feature swab aliases humor sample.
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The IOC said it came to nan determination to instrumentality nan argumentation aft consulting pinch a sheet of experts, pinch nan extremity of providing equal opportunity for women successful sport.
"The argumentation was developed connected nan ground that it is universally accepted that providing for a female class is basal to let some males and females adjacent entree to elite sport," nan IOC said successful an announcement.
"It was guided by nan IOC’s modern goals relating to equality (equal opportunities for female athletes successful finals, connected podiums and successful championships); enhancing Olympic worth (featuring some women’s and men’s finals successful each sport); and visibility and inspiration (celebrating female athletes connected nan Olympic podium to animate and correspond women and girls worldwide)."
IOC President Kirsty Coventry suggested that nan continued enabling of males successful women's sports is "not safe" successful nan announcement.
"As a erstwhile athlete, I passionately judge successful nan authorities of each Olympians to return portion successful adjacent competition. The argumentation that we person announced is based connected subject and has been led by aesculapian experts. At nan Olympic Games, moreover nan smallest margins tin beryllium nan quality betwixt triumph and defeat," Coventry said.
Klaudia Kazimierska (POL) and Nikki Hiltz (USA) aft nan women’s 1,500 metre last during nan World Athletics Championships astatine National Stadium connected Sept. 16, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
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"So, it is perfectly clear that it would not beryllium adjacent for biologic males to compete successful nan female category. In addition, successful immoderate sports it would simply not beryllium safe."
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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