Sean Ingle Guardian article on FINA decision / trans women in female sports

[InvisibleDragon]

Article here, thought it deserves a post of its own:
amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/20/no-magic-solution-in-the-battle-over-trans-inclusion-in-womens-sport

Discusses inclusion Vs fairness &safety dilemma and basically concludes that inclusion basically compromises fairness and safety. I know sports stuff is given more leeway to include biology, but it's a big contrast to the Guardian's preferred line.

cycling’s governing body, the UCI, ... says some unfairness to females in sport is acceptable in exchange for being inclusive.

I'm reading that over and over again, gobsmacked.

I know they don't give a toss about women or fair play. But did they really mean to say that out loud?

The quiet bits are being said all over the place at the moment. At Allison's tribunal, by the extremists protesting Posie's meeting, by the angry men determined to remove women's sport.

Absolutely.