Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, says that its members have shown “endless support” to protect the female category in sport.
In a significant change in politics, he said that the IOC must “play a leadership role” in discussions on gender elbbow.
In the first press conference since he assumed the position earlier this week, the Zimbabuense revealed a working group on the issue composed of international experts and federations “would guarantee that we find consensus.”
The IOC has previously left gender regulations to the government organs of individual sports instead of applying a universal approach.
But having become the first woman to celebrate the presidency of the IOC, Coventry, 41, said its members now wanted to develop a policy “to find cohesion.”
However, Coventry also hinted that no retrospective action would be tasks about the controversial boxing tournament at the Paris Olympic Games last year, when the management of gender rules by the IOC was the subject of intense scrutiny.
After a first meeting of its Executive Board, Coventry added: “We understand it there.
“But we need to do that with a scientific approach and the inclusion of international federations that have already worked a lot in this area.”
Duration of his electoral campaign, the former Coventry swimmer, an Olympic medista of seven times, promised to introduce a general prohibition of transgender women who compete in the female Olympic competition.
In recent years, a growing number of sports federations has banned athletes who have submitted male puberty to compete in female elite competition amid concerns about equity and security.
However, in other sports, transgender women can still compete in female events in the Olympic Games.
The IOC was wrapped in controversy at the Paris Games last summer, when Imane Khelif of Algeria won the Welter Women’s Weight Boxing Medal, one year after being disqualified from the World Championships for, according to reports, not to fail a test of choice.
The IOC cleared the 25-year-old to compete with the Lin Yu-Ting-Ty-Thing of Taiwan, which was also prohibited by the International Boxing Association (IBA) suspended. The IOC said that the competitors were eligible for the women’s division if their passports said they were women.
Both fighters insist that they are women, have always competed in the Women’s Division, and there is no suggestion that they are transgender.
Some reports touch the IBA that indicates that Khelif has XY chromosomes to speculate that the fighter could have differences in sexual development (DSD), such as Runner Casteter Semeja. However, the BBC has not been able to confirm whether this is not the case.
Last year, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) said the reports that had stripped Khelif of the Paris Gold Medal for gender election tests were “obviously false.”
When asked if his working group could apply some retrospective action, Coventry said: “We are not going to do anything retrospectively. We will be waiting. Of the members of the members. [it] It was “What are we learning from the past and how are we going to take advantage of that and move towards the future?”
Earlier this month, World Boxing said that mandatory sexual tests would be introduced in July “to guarantee the safety of all participants and deliver a competitive level play field for men and women.” Follow world athletics that has also approved the introduction of a swab test to determine if an athlete is a biological woman.
When asked if he supported this policy, and if the IOC could also adopt it, Coventry said: “It is too early to pre -sebrate medical experts.
“It was very clear about the membership that the discussion about this must be done with medical and scientific research in the background, so we are analyzing the facts and nuances and the inclusion of international federations that is so so so so so so so so much and use of work … have a job … have work work of this work … having work … have a job … have work work … different work … different.
“But it felt unanimously that the IOC should assume a main role in unite everyone to try to find a broad consensus.”
In response, the president of World Athletics, Lord Coe, a Coventry rival in the COI presidential elections earlier this year, published on social networks: “He completely supports this strong position, is essential for the future of women’s sport.
“World Athletics has offered its advice and experience based on approximately 15 years of detailed science, research and actions to protect women’s sport.”
In February, the president of the International Paralympic Committee told BBC Sport that he opposes “general solutions” for transgender particle policies.
Andrew Parsons spoke after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female sports categories. He said he would deny visas to transgender athletes that seek to compete in female categories at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028.
Coventry said the IOC also planned to establish a second working group that observed when Olympic host cities should be appointed.