World Athletics

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Press conference by Seb Coe stating that male to female transgender athletes who have gone through male puberty will be excluded from female competition!
At last.

Well, if you start prioritising women in women's sport where will it end? Who knows what we might demand next?

Lol, did someone actually say that?!

Am I a bad person for really enjoying Evan's "gosh, this is a surprise!" comments?

Not sure where inclusion, or lack of it, comes into it. They can compete, they just can't compete in the female category. Job done.

Common sense at last

I can't provide figures but quite a few, apparently. Some athletics bodies actively look for promising athletes who were registered as female at birth and raised as girls, but who have a DSD that never got treated, or couldn't be treated, and who in a country with a more developed health system would probably have been diagnosed and registered as male as babies. Caster Semenya falls into this category, I believe. The advantage is that during puberty their bodies produce a lot of testosterone and as we know the effects of that on height, muscles etc are lifelong, even if the athlete later takes drugs to reduce testosterone levels.

Happy days - an outbreak of common sense.

Hooooooraaaaayyyy

Open category... But not yet facilities for this, would be one of my guesses. Plus testing the water for legal kick backs...

I’m pissed off at the PM segment as well, that guest seemed shocked that fairness for women might actually be a priority!

I am obviously happy with this but frustrated at the fact that we have to be having this conversation at all tbh.

Fabulous news, although why should we all be elated at an outbreak of common sense and biological awareness?

Men should never have competed in women's events.

Joanna Harper on bbc news now

One question that sums up everything:

What is the point of women's sport if the males in it have an unfair advantage?

Just realised a horrifying possible problem

Coe said it applies to trans athletes who have gone through male puberty

In other words, get your (sporty talented) boy on puberty blockers quick enough and watch, er, her, shine....

DH and I heard in on R4PM and both went "No shit Sherlock!"

I excellent news well done Daley and Sharon and Seb
As for the people with DSDs they’ll have to compete with the trans category or not compete just like the overwhelming rest of the population who’s bodies don’t allow them to compete in the Olympics.

@MissPollysFitDolly Lol, did someone actually say that?!

Yes but it was a Guardian make jouno so we shouldn’t be surprised.

That wouldn't work, though, as PBs and cross-sex hormones fuck the body. There's no way those kids would be able to compete at elite level.

Good. It’s embarrassing them just breaking records and pretending they don’t have any advantage. Especially as in the men’s category they might not be winning quality.

Weak bone density due to puberty blockers equals more sporting injuries? Interesting to watch play out I suspect.

Hurrah! Thanks, Sharron, and all those who want women's sport to be safe and fair.

R4 seem absolutely baffled by this surprising decision. The BBC headline was "transgender females to be banned from female sport" FFS.

This is amazing! Gender ideology is crumbling!!

Sharron Davies has been so bloody amazing at fighting this stupidity, and Daily Thompson
supported her.

It'll be Open and Women's rather than Men and Women going forward - in the interests of inclusion.