Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events

[Misla]

About time!!

IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category.

The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into the issues of transgender athletes and athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.

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Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events

Bloody ridiculous that they needed a scientific review to figure this out....

Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.

“It was a very scientific, factual and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence,” one source said. Another IOC insider said there had been hugely positive feedback from IOC members about the presentation.
It is understood the IOC is likely to announce its new policy early in the new year, possibly around the IOC session at the Milan-Cortina winter Olympics in early February.

Some work remains to be done to ensure the new policy is legally watertight. Until now the IOC’s policy has been based on recommendations and guidance to sports rather than actually being part of its eligibility rules.

That’s good news.

"Science-based review".

You mean someone took the trouble to "consult a biology text book" and "educate" themselves, the way that we're often invited to by TRAs? Who'd have thought this would be the result?

Great news

Men, men are banned from competing in women’s sports. As they should be

they are still free to compete against the other men if they’re good enough

'Educate yourself' never goes well for the TRAs.

Ridiculous that it had to go to "scientific review", but useful to have the evidence there in black and white for the women should just train harder types.

And happily, it looks like they're coming for Imane as well:

The new policy is also likely to cover DSD (differences of sex development) athletes — those who were raised as girls from birth but have male chromosomes and male levels of testosterone.

That follows the huge controversy at the boxing tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics when two boxers, Imane Khelif from Algeria and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, won gold medals despite having been disqualified from the previous year’s World Championships for allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria.

World Boxing, the new international boxing federation which has been recognised by the IOC since Paris, has now introduced mandatory sex testing and has said Khelif will not be able to compete in the female category until she undergoes the test.

I wonder why Imane doesn't want to take the test? It's a mystery 🤔

This is good news.

The fact that men were ever able to compete in the female category is beyond me.

Hopefully people like AOC will now be forced to apologise to Riley Gaines for suggesting that women just need to work harder.

No shit sherlock

I mean just why did it need a scientific review to stop men competing against women

absolute bonkers

Good. Shouldn’t have come this far but still good.

Will they re-award past medals to the rightful winners as with doping scandal ?

They should.

Good. The idiots defending the indefensible appear to have finally run out of road.

Fantastic news!!

Finally the Olympic batshittery is set to end. Cue bash backs latest toys violently thrown out of adult baby sized pram.

Finally!

saw a comment under the times article suggesting the BBC headline would be

’Women banned from women’s sport’ 😆

I’m disgusted that the IOC took this long.

It is insane. The most bizarre thing for me is that anyone ever argued there was a scientific basis that would allow these men to be included.

Any tests that showed men performing worse after medical transition would always be open to cheating. Those men wanted to demonstrate they were weaker/slower etc because there was a vested interest in being so.

This was manfully demonstrated by Will Thomas in some races as he barely bothered to kick when swimming against women so he managed not to come in too effortlessly far ahead.

Thank goodness someone has finally put a stop to this fiasco.

I’ve never understood why the burden of proof was on evidence to keep them out, rather than evidence to let them in.

(v good lobbying & some interested parties at National & IOC level)

Now Thorton's presentation needs to be given to every professional, college-level, school-level, and community sports body in the world to finally put this issue to bed.

Same. It's so bloody regressive that in the twenty-first century women have had to fight to have women's sport.

Oh wow, did someone learn the GCSE syllabus? What an incredible piece of research. Amazing development.