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Title: Megan Rapinoe & Sue Bird call out Olympics for introducing genetic testing
Post by: Jessica_Rose on April 06, 2026, 12:46:22 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on April 06, 2026, 12:46:22 PM
Megan Rapinoe & Sue Bird call out Olympics for introducing genetic testing to ban trans women
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/megan-rapinoe-sue-bird-call-out-olympics-for-introducing-genetic-testing-to-ban-trans-women/
Faefyx Collington (6 April 2026)
Out sports power couple – soccer star Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA player Sue Bird, both Olympic gold medalists – slammed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for their new genetic gender testing policy.
In a new policy announced last month, the Olympics will now require all participants in women's categories to undergo SRY gene testing to demonstrate their "biological sex." The two athletes framed this as a political move, capitulating to Donald Trump and damaging participation in women's sports and hurting the trans community.
"It's so blatant on its face," said Rapinoe. "It's just a total acquiescence to the Trump administration and to really right-wing conservative politics that really is just bringing down so much hate against such a small percentage of people who are just trying to live their lives. It's just horrible, and I'm just sickened by it."
Bird agreed, saying, "What it is is fearmongering [...] for them to get votes. That's all this is. It's all that it's ever been in my opinion."
Rapinoe highlighted that this policy, like so many anti-trans policies, masquerades under the guise of "protecting women," when that's not what it's about. "They announced a new policy that they're calling—I can't even believe that they're calling it this because it has nothing to do with protecting women, I feel like, as two people who played at the very highest level for every competition that you possibly could, we don't agree with this and it never felt like this was an issue at all—'The Protection of the Female (Women's) Category.'"
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/megan-rapinoe-sue-bird-call-out-olympics-for-introducing-genetic-testing-to-ban-trans-women/
Faefyx Collington (6 April 2026)
Out sports power couple – soccer star Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA player Sue Bird, both Olympic gold medalists – slammed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for their new genetic gender testing policy.
In a new policy announced last month, the Olympics will now require all participants in women's categories to undergo SRY gene testing to demonstrate their "biological sex." The two athletes framed this as a political move, capitulating to Donald Trump and damaging participation in women's sports and hurting the trans community.
"It's so blatant on its face," said Rapinoe. "It's just a total acquiescence to the Trump administration and to really right-wing conservative politics that really is just bringing down so much hate against such a small percentage of people who are just trying to live their lives. It's just horrible, and I'm just sickened by it."
Bird agreed, saying, "What it is is fearmongering [...] for them to get votes. That's all this is. It's all that it's ever been in my opinion."
Rapinoe highlighted that this policy, like so many anti-trans policies, masquerades under the guise of "protecting women," when that's not what it's about. "They announced a new policy that they're calling—I can't even believe that they're calling it this because it has nothing to do with protecting women, I feel like, as two people who played at the very highest level for every competition that you possibly could, we don't agree with this and it never felt like this was an issue at all—'The Protection of the Female (Women's) Category.'"