Taiwan's transgender equality has taken a big step, and the official website of Taiwan High School Sports recently announced that from the 2023 Taiwan Secondary School Games (hereinafter referred to as the "All-China Games"), transgender and intersex athletes will be opened to "cross-group" participation. This is also the first time in the history of Taiwan's sports that transgender athletes have been explicitly allowed to participate.
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who has made publicly transgender. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
The Central News Agency reported that the 2023 All-China Games will be held in Hsinchu County. The competition regulations announced on the official website of the Taiwan High School Sports Federation will include transgender and intersex athletes in the scope of participation in the 2023 all-China Games when explaining the physical condition of the participants, and as for the qualification and related rules, the 2023 All-China Games Competition Regulations will be announced.
The General Principles of Sports of Taiwan High Schools said that for the qualification determination and relevant rules, they will wait for the Sports Department to formulate the measures before announcing them.
Taiwan has had transgender athletes compete in the past, but at that time it was in the general group of the Taiwan College and University Games, and the athlete's gender column on the ID card was also changed, so it was fully eligible to participate, and this is the first time that Transgender and Transgender athletes have been included in Taiwan's sports competitions.
At present, the international sports world has set up competition norms for transgender and transgender athletes, with the most rigorous athletics, through up to 12 months of hormonal intervention, so that the testosterone index is reduced to less than 5nmol/L. However, Taiwan has not followed suit.
The NBC reported that the International Olympic Committee allowed transgender athletes to compete in 2004. At least 3 transgender and/or non-binary people (non-binary people who refuse to admit that they are male or female, nor transgender) participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, causing a lot of controversy. (End)
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