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Will transgender Olympian come out for Rio Games?

Bruce Jenner won a gold medal in the decathlon 40 years ago at the Montreal Games. Today, as Caitlyn Jenner, she is the world’s most famous transgender woman. But she couldn’t have competed as Caitlyn in the pentathlon in 1976.

New guidelines that went into effect this year make it increasingly possible — and, according to several experts, even likely — that the Rio Games could offer the first openly transgender Olympians.

The International Olympic Committee held a meeting in May about transgender issues in which members of an athletics federation said two closeted transgender athletes who competed in their sport were considering coming out publicly before the Games this summer, according to two people who attended the meeting and spoke to USA TODAY Sports.