So … female athletes are gonna have to pay to prove their female. Surely this is sex discrimination given males don’t have to?

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British female athletes asked to pay for own £185 sex tests

https://www.thetimes.com/article/3b2be2b9-8010-4597-8a0a-4fec54154542?shareToken=a7910740cf729d14bc67ebeef8147190

£185 to prove you're a woman

£5 for a GRC

Fundamental social belief innit? Men can't be trusted and are going to fuck around (literally and metaphorically), so if women don't want to be fucked with it's on them to control the risks men create.

Fuckers.

Equestrian events are dependent on the horse as well as the rider. I would not consider this as a group of events where female people have a physical advantage. It could have a great deal to do with the horse.

At one point (1940s) female athletes had physical sex examinations, ie drop their pants in front of a doctor.

A blood test replaced that. Its ridiculous that it was ever dropped in the first place.

And it was dropped purely to allow male athletes with DSDs to compete as female people.

this is my timeline that I have put together.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5142027-save-female-sports-evidence-thread?reply=148440409&utm_campaign=reply&utm_medium=share

And Dr Arne Ljungqvist features very heavily as a person who had great influence about the major decisions regarding allowing male people access to female sports.

Its just bonkers that female sport is back to where we were 80 years go.
Should be nothing controversial about females being females in women's sport.

The cynic in me thinks that this is a punitive ‘fuck you’ to female athletes who want to protect fair sport. Sports governing bodies have with few exceptions had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the side of fairness.

Very good question.

But also, how can a simple cheek swab cost £180? If this cost £25 nobody would care.

If you have girls in athletics contact British Athletics and ask why they’re discriminating against females. It’s blatant sex discrimination 🤦🏻‍♀️ The only reason cheekswabs are needed is because of men (and useless policies that allowed men into the female category). Why should women have to pay?

Who paid when they did blood tests before?

It's a mix of sporting governing bodies, organisations like the IOC & WADA

@IrishSelkie Equestrian events are not separated by sex - they are mixed sex - so they are irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion.

I think it needs to be funded through international sports foundations and organisations, I can imagine a few countries where using the excuse that they can’t afford to test women at grassroots levels, which is probably what will be needed ,means they fund fewer female athletes.