Transgender women athletes banned from female Olympic events
This episode of the BBC Global News Podcast covers several major international developments, with a central focus on a landmark policy shift by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban transgender women and athletes with differences in sexual development (DSD) from competing in
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