Transgender athletes face blanket ban at Olympics

Surely whoever takes over, regardless of their stance, will not want a repeat of the debacle of the boxing at the last Olympics? This issue isn't going to go away. If anything, there will be more anger next time if the IOC don't sort it out. They can't bury their heads in the sand and pretend this isn't harming women's sports.

Yes just reinstate male and female with testing included

Men cheating in women's categories face blanket ban. This cheating should never have happened in the first place.

I'm sure that it isn't a full ban, unless there is a more recent version than the 2023 policy? The conditions are basically not having gone through male puberty plus testosterone suppression - which they will take the athletes' word for. Applies at elite level.

https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility

World Aquatics tried introducing an open category alongside the men’s and women’s ones for the World Cup in October 2023 and then cancelled it because there were zero entries.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/03/swimming-world-cup-category-for-transgender-athletes-cancelled-after-no-entries-received

There is no ban - just a restoration of male and female categories.

No. He's suspected to be an actual biological male with DSD, like Caster Semenya.

No one has a problem with an amazing, super strong butch woman. In fact, we'll be very supporting.

Maybe refer to the Boston marathon non-binary category for a very good example of silliness!

Im not sure that providing a platform, prize money etc to mediocre males is really such a good use of spot’s limited resources. They will then just use that platform to claim ‘stunning and brave’. And of course there will likely be no places for transmen, unless they’re hopped up on testosterone. Much better to treat everyone the same - compete in your own sex category, at the level that’s right for you

The Olympics sets the tone and standard. Male participation in female sport is a big problem worldwide.
This was the tally over a 9-month period, seems to be limited to North America. Over 578 male athletes displacing women and girls.
https://womenssportspolicy.org/253-male-victories-in-female-sports/

https://www.hecheated.org/results
This notes over 5,000 males up to Sep 2024 and is not comprehensive.

I didn’t see it that way. I saw it as him being hamstrung legally by the parameters set out by the Cas ruling and he then went on and implemented a full ban on males.

Correct. He is 100% male.

That's the point where it can't be made to look anything but silly.

A field consisting entirely of men who pretend to be women!

he probably has an extra X chromosone so he is XXY,

It's thought Khelif is XY with 5 ARD exactly as Caster Semenya was proven to be in the Court of Arbitration.

It certainly shouldn't label Khelif as trans (because she isnt)

Khelif is a male with a male DSD.

There is no such thing as intersex. Kalif has DSD, he probably has an extra X chromosone so he is XXY, BUT it is the Y chromosone that results in a male pubery. He will produce testosterone like any other male along with a male physic.

As a baby he would have had ambiguous genitalia, however this is a secondary sex characteristic. As puberty hit it would have been obvious.

If you have a Y you're a guy...

If you include the Paraolympics, there was a trans woman sprinter, Petrillo.

Wasn't imane khelif female but people just thought she had a manly face?

No

Ah, I hadn't clocked about the next Olympics. Serendipity!

I'm torn - of the candidates who claim they will protect female sport, Coe is the frontrunner. But I don't trust him to actually ringfence women's events because he allows males in women's athletics under certain conditions, just not at all levels. A win for him could further entrench the principle of participation of male people in women's sport.

No.

Hilarious.

Wasn't imane khelif female but people just thought she had a manly face?

Good

Because as always the male is far more important than the females 😡

The Olympics don't want an American boycott. And the next Olympics are in America within Trump's current term.

Given this context, it would be very very difficult for any of the incoming IOC candidates to take a different position.

I note it's about trans competitors not intersex too. Intersex may yet be treated differently, but for trans competitors there is simply not going to be a different outcome.