International Olympic Committee announcement today! Will it be regarding female sports?

[Helleofabore]

The IOC is making an announcement today. Here is the Youtube link for the live stream.

15.15 UK time. Let's hope it is the speculated announcement that they have decided to exclude any male person who has undergone androgenisation at puberty.

https://t.co/rm06rZDB0u

Great news.

Gah.
I'm with you! I hate to be a curmudgeon but I surely male CAIS athletes should also be prohibited from competing in the female category. All males should be because the category is for females.
The policy focuses on the effect of testosterone, but male muscle and skeletal development is still different to female, and confers an advantage - albeit much smaller - regardless of the inability to benefit from testosterone.
This policy is much better and much clearer than the previous dog's dinner but it is still not entirely fair to women and girls. Plus the restriction of its application to elite competition undermines the whole policy.

From what I have seen so far, the policy looks great. I can't see any loopholes. Please let this be the beginning of the way back to sanity for many other orgs.

Does this mean olympic boxing will have to follow these rules or is it still devolved to World Boxing?

Fantastic news!

I suspect that there will be more research and performance reviews about those athlete's performance.

From memory, any Olympic sport will need to follow these guidelines at a minimum.

That's great news. Sadly, a tad late. I assume it's not retrospective?

The Guardian has picked it up and even says that Khelif has male chromosomes. Took them long enough.

No. It does say it is not in the new policy sadly.

It won't be. Although they do manage to redistribute medals after time delayed doping violations come to light, so they could.....but they won't.

For those asking, the policy is not retroactive.

I just saw a clip on Sky News where the reporter must have said biological sex and biological women about 20 times 🤭 Heads will be exploding all over the country at such transphobic language, what with biological sex being such a nebulous category, apparently.

I am also going to be watching Sports Australia for their reaction too. I hope that Kieran Perkins will finally acknowledge this.

Poor old India Willoughby has had to flee to Germany to escape hearing such hurty words, like No. With any luck they'll stay there.

I wonder if FIFA will move now?

About time. It's a pity this decision has come too late for the women injured or displaced by male athletes.

I really hope so ItsCoolForCats.

I also suspect some player retirements will be announced for FIFA when they finally change the policy.

Thanks, that should be interesting to see what happens with Lin Yu Ting

Olympics BAN transgender and DSD athletes from ALL women's sports in move which will block male weightlifter Laurel Hubbard and leave gender row boxer Imane Khelif facing sex test | Daily Mail Online

I got news notifications on my phone on this. BBC News says “restricted to biological women only” but Sky News goes with “transgender women banned”. I feel like Sky News has gone for the rage bait headline.

It’s about biological women. Their rights, safe guarding and dignity of women. I’m sick of it being all framed around trans women, around men. Setting men up as victims.

Just come along to say that this is great news! Just read the article on the Guardian website, God I expect they are crying into their drinks now!

Mind you, I am already seeing the misinformation in the headlines:

https://apnews.com/article/ioc-olympic-transgender-female-eligibility-520cd9cee152a312767a667acf77dbc8?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

"Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy"

No!!! They are excluded only from the FEMALE sports categories.

So as the 15:15 expected time approaches, and we all take a moment to send a message to all the news outlets that this is not banning transwomen from any sport. They are still able to participate in any sport. It is just that they are confirming that the segregation in sport happens on biological sex not gender identity. The compassionate and inclusive response is not to rail against this sensible ruling but to ensure that in all sports the "male" category becomes joyfully and explicitly a gender-neutral open-to-all category where transwomen are fully welcome and included to compete at whatever level their skills allow them to reach without denying their gender identity.

Women with CAIS don’t go through a male puberty and can’t respond to testosterone so there isn’t the huge athletic advantage that males with PAIS have over females. There may potentially be a small advantage as a result of their Y chromosome but it’s difficult to tell whether this makes any difference. Women with CAIS are slightly overrepresented in sport compared to the general population but this may be accounted for by the fact that they don’t have periods which can have an impact on training and sporting performance.