Transgender athletes face blanket ban at Olympics

Drug abuse can be pretty widespread in sport (and in some sports in particular) and anabolic steroids have variable detection rates ranging from a few days or weeks after use to several months. My weightlifting DS thinks that people can game the system quite effectively.

only incidental really but the pictures I've seen of that athlete do make me a little dubious (in terms of forearm thickness and so on) that they've been drug free their entire lifetime. I don't think even Olympic standard testing is capable of shedding much light on what chemicals an athlete was taking months or especially years ago.

Yes they are!

So, today may be interesting. The candidates may not say much in their presentations but I wonder if the press questions will get things kicking off discussion wise.

Just a reminder:

The IOC membership will meet tomorrow, Thursday 30 January, at Olympic House, Lausanne, for a presentation by the candidates for the IOC presidency.

This will be followed by media interactions from 11:30-13:30 CET, which will be streamed live here:

https://x.com/iocmedia/status/1884599451701944810?s=46

Woman with a short hair cut, and ridiculous opinions you mean.
New acronym landing WWROAW!

Well, yes.

Quite correctly for a transman who hasn't taken hormones.

Woman with a short hair cut, and ridiculous opinions you mean.

Just checked - Filipino boxer Hergie Bacyadan competed in the women's 75kg category in Paris. Quite correctly for a transman who hasn't taken hormones.

A few people tried to bring it up as a gotcha in the Lin/Kalif discussion. 'Why are you so upset about the women competing when you're not bothered about the man?'. Which showed they reallly didn't understand what they were talking about.

There was a transman in last year's boxing, wasn't there?

If there was, it's a good sign that any protests are about fairness not 'transphobia'. What was protested was two men, with intersex conditions which didn't prevent them having gone through male puberty, taking part in the women's contest.

Well, Trump said some time ago that if he was President, men will not be competing in woman’s events at the Los Angeles Olympics ( and they only recognise two ‘genders’ in the US now).

So unless they want to raise a lot of money( to replace state sponsorship) , or find an alternative venue 😂, thé Olympic committee are just going to have to lump it.

Of course they don't. Collateral damage all the way.

I think we've already established that no one cares about them.

The solution is incredibly simple.

A simple cheek swab for a sex test then either female category or open anyone who doesn't qualify as female so, men or anyone else who is male but is unhappy with the word man.

The problem class is actually trans identifying females who may fall foul of doping regulations.

Very strange how most forums have the same outlook yet the media keep pushing that this is a far bigger deal.

There was a transman in last year's boxing, wasn't there?

Quinn's not a transman, though. She's a woman with short hair. And opinions.

Female trans athletes can and do compete in the Olympics in the female category without restriction so long as they aren't doping with testosterone. examples are Quinn, a woman who claims to be non-binary (football), and Alana Smith, a "non-binary" girl (skateboarding).

The headline is misleading. This only applies to male transgender athletes.

Female transgender athletes can't compete in any Olympic sport even without formal bans.

They are eliminated from female sport because of their testosterone usage. And eliminated from male elite competitions because their bodies just can't compete with males at that level.

It's all a bit male centric.

It boils my piss when people say shit like this.

It's been fucking obvious to anyone paying attention.

Saying it wasn't predictable is just an admission you've been caught napping.

Literally nothing of this scale comes to pass without fair warning and indications of a problem long before it becomes a crisis.

Misleading headline, transgender athletes will have to compete in their on sex category, just like 'trans men' have been doing, or 'non-binary' females. Plus using DSDs as part of being transgender I find incredibly offensive.

I agree with the PP who said that this talk of a "transgender ban" is ridiculous. There is no such thing, and this is deliberately misleading. Cui bono? Everyone does it, but when done by 'supportive' media outlets, it feels like a kick in the teeth. Why give ammunition to those who would paint GC people as bigots?

I think headline writers are web / broadsheet formatters/typesetters. Definitely not journalists.

A better opening paragraph (and title) would be "Males to be banned in women's Olympics sports".

Or at least, "Males who identify as women to be banned in women's Olympics sports".

Kirsty Coventry says she doesn’t think the scenario at the last Olympics was predictable. Despite the fact that we’ve all been predicting such a scenario for years and the same scenario has played out in athletics for years. I don’t think this woman is a good candidate. She clearly doesn’t have the guts to stand up against the ideologues. Either that or she’s hard of thinking.

Yes just reinstate male and female with testing included

Exactly. It's extremely simple. There wouldn't have been all this angst if they'd just done this. Khelif would have simply not been found eligible to box in the female category.

So sad that the Olympics will be destroying male athletes' hopes and dreams of competing in the women's category.

I eagerly await their sob stories being publicised widely while female athletes are once again ignored.