Olympics Bans Transgender ‘Women’ in All Women’s Sport
The International Olympic Committee has announced that transgender ‘women’ and intersex people will be banned from all women’s competitions, which will be restricted to biological females. The Telegraph has more.
Putting an end to a decade of controversies involving transgender athletes and those with differences in sexual development (DSD), IOC President Kirsty Coventry, elected last year to succeed Thomas Bach, has finally recognised the need to treat sex as an objective reality rather than a matter of belief.
It is a seismic ruling, with all international sports federations now expected to fall in behind the IOC by banning both trans-identifying males and DSD athletes from the female category. …
The move is explicitly designed to avoid a repeat of the scandals that erupted at the last two summer Games. In Tokyo in 2021, male weightlifter Laurel Hubbard stoked outrage by representing New Zealand in the women’s event.
Then at Paris 2024, boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting – both of whom had been disqualified from world championships for sex tests indicating the presence of male chromosomes – won gold medals in women’s boxing.
While Coventry was on the IOC executive board that enabled the Paris travesty, she has since made protecting the integrity of women’s sport a core aim of her presidency. It marks a dramatic shift from the regime of Bach, who infamously declared that Khelif and Lin should be accepted as women simply on the basis of an “F” in their passports, and whose communications chief Mark Adams dismissed the controversy as a “culture war”.
It has taken far too long for the IOC to accept the immutable physiological advantages of being born male. Despite published literature by Dr Emma Hilton, a developmental biologist, illustrating how men punch 2.6 times harder on average than women, the custodians of international sport still allowed Khelif, a boxer whose tests recorded XY chromosomes, into the Olympic ring to demolish Angela Carini inside 46 seconds. “I had to preserve my life,” said the Italian after withdrawing.
The IOC was finally persuaded to change course last autumn, following a presentation by Canada’s Dr Jane Thornton, a former Olympic rower, which documented how biological males continued to outperform women even after taking testosterone suppressants. The intention was to unveil a tougher policy to coincide with the Milano-Cortina Winter Games in February, but the announcement was delayed by legal wrangling.
One method of enforcing a blanket ban on transgender and intersex competitors in women’s sport would be to mandate universal genetic sex testing via a cheek swab, a non-invasive procedure that lasts only seconds and produces a lifetime result. Most female athletes surveyed have expressed support for such a measure. World Athletics adopted it as official policy last year.
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Let’s translate the statement to normal English:
“Olympics bans men in women’s sports.”
Thank you.
I was about to write the same thing.
Language matters. Never use the language of the enemy, which is designed to deceive, corrupt and confuse.
DS ought to have written the headline like that, but I guess they are preaching to the converted. But writing it like that brings home how mad it all is – that it should be a requirement to “ban” people from competing in something that they were never eligible for to begin with.
Maybe an even better headline would be “Olympics decides that women’s sports are for women only, and not for men, after all”.
Exactly.
The deception starts by gradually changing the meaning of words.
By accepting the new meaning, they have drawn you into their “frame”.
By accepting that there is actually something called a “transgender woman” you have actually confirmed your compliance.
I still find the term immediately confusing because I associate the word “woman” with, er, women.
That Telegraph article was hard to read, being stuffed with woke bullsh1t phrases such as ‘Assigned male at birth’.
I am unwilling to read much MSM or anything else modern – combination of poor spelling, grammar, weak/non existent logic and woke bollocks.
“Assigned xxx at birth” is one of the worst offenders – some bullshit phrase invented by some despicable person to deceive and confuse, latched onto lazily by many. Sex is determined at conception and can be tested for I believe at any point after that, and traditionally has been observed at birth.
To be fair, they did put “women” in inverted commas.
Lauren Hubbard – great at the clean and jerk, not very good at the snatch.
I like your phrasing. All jerk, no snatch.
On one hand this is great news.
On the other, how did we even get to the point where were “men cannot compete in women’s sports” is a news story?
Probably the fact the woketards running the country couldn’t define what a woman was and thought men could have babies, had something to do with it. And I think all of the female athletes that were cheated out of their titles and medals over the years should get what’s rightfully theirs now. They won’t get a stadium full of people to witness their achievements but they certainly should have some sort of collective ceremony. To me, this would be justice for them because this wasn’t just some hobby, this was their careers that they’d made sacrifices and worked bloody hard for, so there should be some recognition of that fact. A female athlete is never going to be able to realise her full potential if she’s having to compete against men, and it’s not these athletes that made the stupid rules in the first place. That would’ve been career suicide. Important to reiterate that these trans and DSD athletes aren’t banned from competing, it’s just they’re now having to compete in the category for which they’re eligible. So I guess it’s a case of: back to being crappy, mediocre male athletes competing against far superior men once more. No more… Read more »
Truth and justice prevail at last! Now the Olympics must also announce that biological women are banned in all men’s sports. And that women are banned from combat roles in all Armed Forces… not because they are incapable, but because they are less capable at combat than men, and because their presence on the battlefield hampers their male colleagues, who feel obliged to protect them and cover for them when they let the side down for biological reasons. Women are invaluable in support roles in warfare, but not combat. That is my own honest personal view. Cue feminists shrieking…
Agree 💯 👍
There’s a bloody good reason we have the phrase, “WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!”
That phrase reminds me of an appalling report about the sinking of the Titanic, when the men chivalrously helped all the women & children into the lifeboats first, and were then commanded to remain on the Titanic as it went down, even though the surviving women reported later that there was still room in many lifeboats that could have saved many men. It was so unjust.
Some devoted women refused to abandon their husbands, and willingly perished alongside them.
“…which will be restricted to biological females…”
Scrap the word biological from that sentence, please, DS. “Female” is already a word used to categorise biology. This is not merely a finer point of syntax or grammar or linguistics, it’s about not validating the language of the “enemy” which is reinforcing all this evil nonsense.
It’s as stupid as the phrase, “safe haven”. A haven is a safe place. You don’t need to say it again. Is there such a thing as a dangerous haven? No.
Some years ago Serena Williams was asked on TV how she thought she would do against the men. —-Her reply was “If I played Andy Murray I would lose 6-0 6-0”——-Nuff said.
She must be one of those racist transphobes. Probably a whitey, too. And probably didn’t get the vaccine.