A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Activist groups see it as a massive leap for inclusion during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity.

A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, a massive leap during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity.

There are 191 athletes publicly saying they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary who are participating in the Games, according to Outsports, an organization that compiles a database of openly queer Olympians. The vast majority of the athletes are women.

That number has quashed the previous record of 186 out athletes counted at the COVID-19-delayed Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, and the count is only expected to grow at future Olympics.

“More and more people are coming out,” said Jim Buzinski, co-founder of Outsports. “They realize it’s important to be visible because there’s no other way to get representation.”

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          172·
          3 months ago

          So you’re not female if you have Swyer Syndrome.

          In Swyer syndrome, individuals have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each cell, which is the pattern typically found in boys and men; however, they have female reproductive structures.

          People with Swyer syndrome have female external genitalia and some female internal reproductive structures. These individuals usually have a uterus and fallopian tubes, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) are not functional. Instead, the gonads are small and underdeveloped and contain little gonadal tissue. These structures are called streak gonads.

          Not a woman, right? Despite not even being able to tell even when you see them naked, right?

          How about XXY people? Men or women? Because they usually look like men, but at least one got pregnant.

    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
      157·
      3 months ago

      Most cis sportswomen have naturally elevated “masculine” hormones. Trans women see many physical changes (like fat redistribution and changes in muscle n fat mass) after commencing hormone therapy. Therefore, the “advantage” that they have over cis women is negligible. It is in fact comparable to the advantage that some cis women have over other cis women (the hormone thing that I mentioned in my first sentence).

      But no, being assholes towards trans people is cool, and there clearly aren’t other issues to worry about. /s

      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        413·
        3 months ago

        There is an undeniable trend of mtf athletes breaking female records. Trying to hide from that does noone any good.

        • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          3 months ago

          Trans athletes have been accepted in the Olympics since 2004, yet not a single one has so much as qualified for a games since then, despite having such a “big advantage”

          And globally the only trans person to ever get a professional title was a div 1 swimmer in the US.