This Gender Identity Policy is applicable only to athletes competing in domestic, continental or international competitions hosted or sanctioned by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

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III. Event Categories

Domestic events hosted by national federations should attempt to have the following categories, per their national federation’s gender identity policy. For Continental, Grand Prix, International, World competitions, IWF will adopt the following categories for competition. For the sake of clarity, this excludes university/collegiate events, which are subject to following FISU’s policy.

Women’s Events: * Events exclusively for athletes who identify as :

1. A cis-female athlete
2. Those who are assigned female at birth (may include Non-Binary, DSD, Intersex)
3. Those trans-female athletes who complete hormonal transition BEFORE Completion of puberty.

Men’s Events: * Events exclusively for athletes who identify as:

1. A cis-male athlete
2. Those who are assigned male at birth (may include Non-Binary, DSD, Intersex)
3. Those trans-male athletes who complete hormonal transition BEFORE completion of puberty

Open Gender Event: These events are for athletes of any non-cis gender, intersex, those identifying as a gender not congruent with their assigned birth gender, DSD athletes. Intersex and DSD athletes may require review from IWF Gender Committee prior to be allowed to compete in open category in order to make sure eligibility requirements are met. Cis-men and cis-women may not participate in Open Gender category.

*Athletes must comply with IOC/WADA doping control rules congruent for Men and Women athletes