The IOC's New Policy Isn't Really a Trans Story

Every headline says the IOC banned trans women from the Olympics. The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.

Today, the International Olympic Committee adopted a new policy on who gets to compete as a woman at the Olympics. Here’s how the press covered it:

You get the idea. Buried further down, the AP wire story that most of these outlets ran mentions that the policy “also restricts female athletes such as two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya with me…