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

At last. Unbelievable that the flat earthers have been given so much power.

Great news. Finally.

Great news for women's sports but unbelievable that it ever got to this point.

Olympics to ban trans athletes from all women’s events

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/018864e60a8ef1fb

Still can’t see anything on the bbc about this. (Though it’s possible that’s my bad looking. Anyone else?)

TRAs are already questioning the veracity of the studies used for the review

100% this. They are men, and they’re the worst type of men, lying, cheating bullies.

Has the hand-wringing and sobbing from the Guardian started yet?

Finally!

This is why there’s an issue with trusting experts. Even the most dumb person knew this. It’s beggars belief they needed to review this. Scary.

Awaiting BBC report spin on this.

At least someone seeing thru the nonsense

Common sense finally prevails.

Great news. It will be interesting to see whether sporting bodies who still allow makes in the female category will follow suit.

I cannot believe we've had what 5 years+ of people arguing that they don't have an advantage and women just need to try harder. People in positions of power and supposedly smart going along with this extreme stupidity. Estrogen doesn't change leg/arm length, lung size, muscle structure, they don't have to deal with periods etc etc.

It's not as if you ever needed to deep dive the data, it's known fact we've known for thousands of years, women didn't physically build the pyramids, they used men. They knew, these people knew they just decided to throw women under a bus.

Everyone who defended this insanity should be removed from positions of power.

Aargh, I wish they wouldn't use headlines like this! It's not "trans athletes" who are being barred from women's events, but specifically transwomen (as the Times article reported correctly). Presumably trans men are still theoretically able to compete in women's events (although whether they would want to is another matter).

I hope they strip all these men of medals. Would be good to get any winners prize money back too but thats probably much harder.

Men.

But no one cares about transmen. They never do.

Huge win for everyone who risked their careers over this.

The fight back continues at the grass roots level.

Biology is a thing.

Re medal stripping: won't happen. Unlike doping, previous competitors were within the rules at the time.

Shame on Jeremy Wilson
How unprofessional is it that he could not write a honest report.

Males (only) are being banned.

Females who are not taking banned substances are not being prevented from trying to access Olympic gold.

And it wouldn't work for knock-out tournaments.

ETA comment applies to correctly reawarding medals, sorry.

Fantastic news

Spot on.
Or even better, "male" athletes.

I very much hope they apply this to all male dsd athletes as well,