Transgender athletes may be able to compete in the Olympics without having themselves surgically altered first, an International Olympic Committee advisory panel recently recommended.
Previous rules, dating to 2003, required athletes who had transitioned from one sex to the other to have undergone gender-reassignment surgery and to have had at least two years of hormone therapy to be eligible.
NASHUA, N.H. – With New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary election less than three weeks away, presidential contenders are sprinting to the finish, reaching out to as many voters in as many ways as they possibly can. For most of the Republicans, that meant a trip to Nashua on Saturday for a pageant of speeches dubbed the "First-in-the-nation Republican Town Hall."
The candidates that mounted the Nashua stage for review are by now familiar to those who have followed the race. Nearly 1,000 of the cognoscenti filled a hotel ballroom for the event, organized by the New Hampshire Republican Party, and had the chance to hear from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. All stuck to their key issues.
