Telegraph: Government to crack down on trans athletes competing in female sports

[ResisterRex]

This is good BUT it needs to be at all levels. Vanishingly few of us are ever going to make it into competitive sport. Or want to.

Government to crack down on trans athletes competing in female sports

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/14/government-crack-trans-athletes-competing-female-sports/

"The Government is preparing to launch a crackdown on transgender womenn_ competing in female sports, The Telegraph understands.
Michelle Donelan, the Culture Secretary, has called senior executives from the major national sports governing bodies in for a meeting in Whitehall to discuss the issue.
At the summitt, due to take place later this month, she will warn that elite and competitive women’s sportt “must be reserved for people born of the female sex”.
This does not include people who were born male and may have taken puberty blockers to suppress testosterone, but nonetheless retain their natural physical advantagess_.
Sources close to the Culture Secretary said she believes that a “common sense” approach must be taken where the “basic biology” of athletes is taken into account in order to “preserve the key value of sporting competition – performing on a level playing field”.
The move came after Olympians warned that a “generation” of girls could miss outt on medals thanks to “ludicrous” transgender policiess.
Sharron Daviess, the swimmer who won silver for Britain at the 1980 Olympics, and Mara Yamauchi, Britain’s third fastest female marathon runner ever, spoke out following a backlash to British Rowing’s policyy which allows transgender women to race in women’s events."

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Oh wow, that's interesting. I wonder if it will get watered down when the transphobia cries start

Yessss some common sense! I do hope we see real action

This is great!

But when are they going to take rapists out of female prisons??

Good. But I hope she realises what a juggernaut of misogyny she's up against.

She absolutely understands that this is an emotionally charged and sensitive subject. She has the utmost compassion for people born into a body they don’t recognise, and fully supports our long-established route for people to change their legal sex if they wish.

A body they don't recognise? What does that even mean? They bloody well recognise it enough to endlessly train it every day, spending all their time focusing on it and what ever sport they are competing in.

Men violating women's boundaries, ignoring their consent and destroying their sport could not do it without 'recognising their body', ffs. Their body is the only way they can do it.

Excellent news. Let's hope they also block the ludicrous erosion of women's rights coming down the pipeline from Scotland.

A year on and where are we?

But the circle keeps going back, doesn't it?

The problems become obvious, people get increasingly cross, the government and bodies talk and take..... some action.

The lobby wails and stamps and cries that women's equality is literal violence and a woman's only place is being a prop in male self expression, and the action gets watered down.

And the problems get more obvious, people get even crosser, the government and groups meet again and from the current starting point take it a little further....

and so we go on. This is not going away. It's creeping slowly but inevitably towards the understanding that women's equality and other people's rights are not compatible with the lobby's desired utopia. It's unfortunately a path moving slower than molasses and paved with a body count of women excluded, harmed, deprived of opportunities and actively assaulted and raped, and that is bloody shameful evidence of how utterly bloody fundamentally sexist this country is, but the path keeps on winding.

And it is going to be bloody hard for a Labour government to announce that they are sacrificing women to the lobby's desires, and stand up to the flak, unpopularity and very obvious awful optics this will involve.

Michelle Donelan, the Culture Secretary, has called senior executives from the major national sports governing bodies in for a meeting in Whitehall to discuss the issue.

Didn’t this already happen a couple of years ago? Some meeting with a minister telling sporting bodies they have to reserve female sports for female people?

Here...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4576866-nadine-dorries-to-meet-with-sporting-associations

Isn't this just more words and no action?