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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) - The International Olympic Committee (news - web sites) (IOC) have mapped out conditions for sex change athletes to compete in the Olympics, it was announced here Monday.


Officials said that although it was rare to have a sex change athlete compete it was becoming more common.


"And it is something we had no rules and regulations for so we decided it was time to have some," said IOC medical commission director Patrick Schamasch.


Three key rules were announced to allow such athletes to compete:


1 - All operations involving a sex change must be complete.


2 - The athletes had to have legal recognition of their assigned sex by all appropiate officials.


3 - There would be a two-year wait after the completion of hormonal treatment.


Schamasch said the new regulation come into effect immediately and will be in place for Athens.

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Insane!

At work, sometimes you have to wrap your brain around where transexuals are allowed to 'tread'. Post-ops are permitted here, pre-ops here . . . thankfully, they recently changed the rules so we could basically leave them be.

Where does one sign up to be an "appropriate official"?

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