Olympics Set to Ban Transgender Athletes from All Women’s Events
The Olympics is set to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence that reportedly showed there are irreversible physical advantages to being born male. The Telegraph has more.
Kirsty Coventry, the new President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), told Telegraph Sport in January that she favoured a blanket ban and, after winning the presidency in March, commissioned a review that assessed the permanent physical advantages of being born male.
An update was provided last week to IOC members by Dr Jane Thornton, who is the committee’s Medical and Scientific Director.
Although no final decision has been made, the update to IOC members reportedly stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained even after reducing testosterone levels.
The IOC’s current policy is that individual sports should decide their own rules, leaving a mixture of approaches. Athletics and swimming ban transgender athletes while sports such as football permit transgender competitors as long as they have taken measures to reduce their testosterone levels.
Examples of trans women competing at the Olympics are very uncommon but one recent example was Laurel Hubbard, a weightlifter from New Zealand who appeared at the Tokyo Games in 2020 but did not win a medal.
The stricter new IOC policy could also include athletes with differences of sex development, known as DSD. The most high-profile example is Caster Semenya, who won 800m gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Two boxers – Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting – won controversial gold medals at the Paris Olympics last year despite allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria at the Boxing World Championships. Their sex has never been officially confirmed.
The IOC is expected to update its policy next year, with officials mindful of the legal ramifications. Governing bodies in the UK, including the Football Association and the England & Wales Cricket Board, introduced a ban earlier this year but the ECB is now facing a legal challenge over its policy change.
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Well, better late than never. But I think there’s a lot of female athletes who should be awarded those medals and titles that were effectively stolen from them. That would at least go some way to address the reparations that they are legitimately owed;
From a performance coach;
”I can’t believe for years we had folks argue in major publications that sports shouldn’t be separated by sex, that androgens didn’t make that big of a difference, etc.
Like it or not, biology plays a big role in performance. You can’t deny reality, you have to deal with it. I don’t care what your political leanings are, a core piece of good thinking is acknowledging facts, regardless of if they confirm or deny your preferred narrative.
We’ve got to go where the evidence demands…
I’m not sure how to get it across, sometimes I’d say, “If you gave a women all of the craziest steroids and performance enhancing drugs you could find, you’d still be short of the performance boost that a male gets from simply being male…”
It’s just reality.”
https://x.com/stevemagness/status/1987924942730473607
When you write out what is actually happening, which is:
“Olympics set to ban male athletes from all womens events”
it gives you a better idea of just how mad the whole business is.
A bit like
“British Horseracing Authority bans cheetahs from horseraces”.
It’s more something like “British horseracing authority bans motorbike drivers from horseraces.” After all, if someone can be a transwomen, why not a transhorseman as well?
It’s completely nuts when you think about it
It certainly appears to be. But it’s really just a logical consequence of the dictum that people are made and not born: If society is purely what the oppressors turned the oppressed into because absent what’s forced onto them by established power structures, all people are equal, there can be no differences between save that they were pressed into different forms.
That’s a nice demonstration that our technology has improved since the days of reading the future from animal intestines¹ but our minds haven’t: We’re still absolutely as subsceptible to disregard reality if some fantasy theory of ours decrees that reality must be wrong.
¹ The Romans had publically recognized experts for that.
Anyway it’s not a bloody “ban”. You can’t “ban” someone from something that they are not eligible to.
Alternative headline “Olympics stops allowing male athletes to compete in womens events (which were therefore no longer womens events but mixed)”
Language matters. Don’t use the distorting lying words of the enemy.
I must be an amazing scientist because I worked out that biological males are physically stronger than biological females about 60 years at primary school.
You’re not amazing and you’re not a scientist you’re a rACist cOnSPirAcY thEORisT
😉
I would like to hear the Trans people explain why there are no F to M trans demanding to play in men’s sports.
I remember years ago, Annika Sorenstan, the world’s number one professional woman golfer was allowed to play in a men’s tournament, she didn’t make the cut
Everyone in the world who plays real tennis has a handicap which measures their skill level. It is a number on a scale ranging from roughly +15.0 (best player) to -85.0 (beginner). A player’s handicap is automatically recomputed online in real time every time they play against any other player of either sex on any court in the world.
We have fantastic female players who win Ladies championships, but don’t progress beyond the round of 16 in fully Open events. Their handicaps are several percent ”worse” than the top males. I can assure you it’s not for lack of trying; these women are dedicated athletes with great determination, who are often champions in other ball sports too. It’s just the laws of nature in action.
Trannies are not an issue in real tennis (although I once saw a chap at Queen’s Club playing in pink socks). No male RT player has ever entered the Ladies Championships, but if Pink Socks wants to try filling in the entry form, I’ll provide the popcorn whilst we watch the Ladies Committee debate it…
Seeing the photo at the head of this item, I’m minded of a tale I thought I’d share–it’s a memory of a Spike Milligan anecdote as told in ‘Adolf Hitler, my part in his Downfall.’ Whilst Army (gunnery) training a boxing match was arranged between different batteries. On the night of the event, hundreds of baying squaddies were assembled to cheer on their boxer. Representing Milligan’s outfit was a weedy, string bean of a lad, Gunner Naze, who’d been co-opted to uphold the honour of his battery. In the other corner sat a squat, hairy. well muscled character with furrowed brow and threatening demeanour. Taking one look at the opposition, Naze declared “I’m not fighting it till I ‘ear it tork.”
It is of course interesting to note that there do not appear to be any transgender participants in men’s sports. Could this be because they cannot, for biological reasons, succeed?
I think the psychology behind the reasons why people want to ‘trans’ to the ‘opposite sex’, so to speak, differ greatly depending on their sex, anyway. I think their motivations for doing so are very different. Yes, we can say both sexes are ‘mentally ill’, but I’d say that’s where the similarity ends. At least for men wanting to identify as women, misogyny can play a part ( for e g: the trampling of female sex-based rights, which i don’t think is a thing from the FtM trans folk, and disrespecting of boundaries ) but the men often show behaviour which is both entitled and narcissistic. Then there’s the sex pests, of course, and the fetishist behaviour, which again, I’d say isn’t really applicable for the FtM people. A MtF trans person will always be more of a threat to women’s safety and our rights than a FtM is to men’s safety and their sex-based rights. In the context of sport: we know that the males ( swimmer ‘Lia Thompson’, as well as various cyclists are examples ) identifying as women were very mediocre athletes when competing against fellow men, so obviously they’re going to have massive advantages physically when… Read more »
“following a science-based review of evidence that reportedly showed there are irreversible physical advantages to being born male.”
No sh!t Sherlock. Born male = ALWAYS male.