More threats to womens sport - FIFA and FINA

Not 100% what I’d like:

The new policy will require transgender competitors to have completed their transition by the age of 12 in order to be able to compete in women's competitions.

… so still allowing male bodied people into female events.
However, that’s a lot better than I’d feared.

Here's their report:
resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/06/19/525de003-51f4-47d3-8d5a-716dac5f77c7/FINA-INCLUSION-POLICY-AND-APPENDICES-FINAL-.pdf

Only link I can find at the moment;

www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/fina-votes-restrict-transgender-participation-elite-womens-competition-2756951

yay!

OP I despair of this too.

The only conclusion to be made is that sports is deeply mysogynistic. Women athletes are not being listened to at any level.

It's plain old sex discrimination, it literally boils my piss whenever I read these stories and actually puts me off supporting any sport - why should men's sports continue unchanged? Why are transmen continued to be allowed in the female category if we also include TW?

I'm not against TM in women's categories at all btw, it makes biological sense but just highlighting this underlines the lack of logic that the women's category accommodates self declared men as well as self declared women.

Grassroots football under FIFA already permits men to play women's football without any testosterone limits. I retired from the more competitive leagues in my mid-forties, but I increasingly see men playing in those games, They're usually easy to spot as they're a foot taller than most of the other players.

I now play in a low-level league that welcomes complete beginners. Women in their twenties and thirties who have literally never kicked a ball. Women who don't know the first thing about the positions or what they are supposed to do on the pitch. Women who are terrified about trying something scary and new but desperate to give it a go. Women who are looking for female camaraderie and support.

Introducing men into that environment will be an unmitigated disaster. The league has consulted teams on transgender participation, but I don't know what their final decision will be.

It's awful, the world has gone mad.

I am getting exhausted at the half the human race who are passively watching all this happen in front of them, to them, and to their daughters, and have not yet managed to get off their bums and do anything about it. Despite endless attempts to wake them up to it.

It's all just one long misogynist party. I've just seen Willoughby's gleeful tweet joining in with TW who having found a carefully provided gender neutral provided toilet with a note on the door to say females who needed a single sex space needed to walk to another part of the building - all carefully walked to that single sex toilet and used it to demonstrate that males will do whatever the fuck they want, could not give a shit about females excluded, and it's all about their control, their power, their right to take everything from females and no one can stop them. 'Just want to pee' my ovaries.

And this agenda is being enabled by a bunch of equally nasty misogynist idiots. It's male supremacism. That's it. That's all. Good old fashioned boring MRAs.

Don’t despair. Voters will right this imbalance eventually.