After the announcement of the International Olympic Committee’s new gender testing guidelines, which will prevent trans athletes from competing at an Olympic level, more than 100 human rights, sports, and scientific groups have denounced the decision. Professor Paula Gerber, an international human rights lawyer at Monash University, called the move “blunt and discriminatory.” Athletes who are intersex or have differences of sex development, including cisgender woman, are also expected to be affected by the new guidelines. #news #lgbtqia #olympics #transrights