Olympics Ban transgender and DSD athletes from All women's sports

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Olympic chiefs have blocked transgender and certain DSD athletes from all women's sports after announcing mandatory sex testing under new rules.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that a once-in-a-lifetime SRY gene test will help 'protect fairness, safety and integrity in the female category'.
It comes after World Athletics made it compulsory for female athletes to take the test to take part in major championships or Diamond League events last year.
That decision followed high-profile controversies involving the boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting at the Paris 2024 Olympics after claims that they had failed gender eligibility tests with the International Boxing Association (IBA).
Any athletes with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) must prove that they 'do not benefit from the anabolic and/or performance-enhancing effects of testosterone'.
Khelif, who won gold in the women's welterweight boxing category at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has consistently denied being transgender and taken treatment to lower testosterone levels.

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OC president Kirsty Coventry said: 'As a former athlete, I passionately believe in the rights of all Olympians to take part in fair competition. The policy that we have announced is based on science and has been led by medical experts.
'At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat. So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe.”
 
Lawrence00 said:
Sports where women often dominate men per ai.

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Sure there are certain sports where women dominate, and even in tradionally male dominated sports there are woman capable of competing and winning, but that's kind of irrelevant to the issue being addressed by gender testing.

You want to create an open or mixed classification for all sports? Have at it, I'm OK with that because the athletes know what they are getting into.
 
Years ago, some athletes were found to be using some type of steroids to get an 'edge' in competing- bike racers, bodybuilders, etc.- and it was acknowledged that it was cheating.
The same standards and consequences should be for all athletes these days- regardless of what they 'identify' as or 'call' themselves.

(I said this on a regional message board around a year ago, and got torn to shreds!!!)
 
I have been against transgender athletes competing in women sports since it was first permitted. In fact, I thought it was one of the dumbest things that I had heard. Only a true moron would even suggest something like that.

To fly a big plane, one must need a certain level of intelligence. I have flown with at least a dozen different women and truthfully, I can attest to the fact that women are as capable as a man to fly any size aircraft. However, when it comes to lifting weights, swimming or throwing horseshoes, women cannot compete with a man only because of the strength needed to compete.

My point is when it comes to strength needed, the man comes out on top, but when it comes to intelligence, it’s a coin toss.
 
I agree with this decision.

I have nothing against transgender people and in all other aspects of life it should make no difference - but the biological advantage of being born male does matter for most sports.

Fine if it is amateur running or something where you are only racing against yourself/the clock and fine for sports where there is mixed or open gender category - but not in men's/ women's separated categories, it is an unfair advantage.
 
Sunkist said:
Years ago, some athletes were found to be using some type of steroids to get an 'edge' in competing- bike racers, bodybuilders, etc.- and it was acknowledged that it was cheating.
The same standards and consequences should be for all athletes these days- regardless of what they 'identify' as or 'call' themselves.

(I said this on a regional message board around a year ago, and got torn to shreds!!!)
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There was an Eastern German woman in the 80s who was forced to take so many hormones for that sport that she later became a man.

The East German shot putter who continued as a man after her sports career is Andreas Krieger, born as Heidi Krieger.

Career and Doping: Heidi Krieger was a successful East German shot putter in the 1980s, becoming European champion in 1986. Like many other GDR athletes, she was forced by the state system (Stasi/sports doctors) to take steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs without knowing exactly what they were.

Consequences of Doping: The enormous amounts of testosterone and other anabolic steroids she was administered from the age of sixteen caused a physical and emotional change. Her body displayed strong male characteristics.

Gender Transition: Due to the permanent physical damage and identity issues resulting from the doping, Heidi Krieger later underwent gender reassignment surgery and continued as Andreas Krieger. Andreas Krieger is a well-known victim of the systematic doping program (State Plan 14.25) in the former GDR.
 
C50 said:
Sure there are certain sports where women dominate, and even in tradionally male dominated sports there are woman capable of competing and winning, but that's kind of irrelevant to the issue being addressed by gender testing.

You want to create an open or mixed classification for all sports? Have at it, I'm OK with that because the athletes know what they are getting into.
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The sports need to stay separate.

I was curious if there were any sports where women were commonly superior to men and I posted that list from ai.

I also had a discussion with ai about table tennis. Speed and tactics keeps the playing field near 50/50 as the male players cannot get into those powerful looping strokes when an opponent nullifies it by short fast table work.
 
hollydolly said:
Olympic chiefs have blocked transgender and certain DSD athletes from all women's sports after announcing mandatory sex testing under new rules.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that a once-in-a-lifetime SRY gene test will help 'protect fairness, safety and integrity in the female category'.
It comes after World Athletics made it compulsory for female athletes to take the test to take part in major championships or Diamond League events last year.
That decision followed high-profile controversies involving the boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting at the Paris 2024 Olympics after claims that they had failed gender eligibility tests with the International Boxing Association (IBA).
Any athletes with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) must prove that they 'do not benefit from the anabolic and/or performance-enhancing effects of testosterone'.
Khelif, who won gold in the women's welterweight boxing category at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has consistently denied being transgender and taken treatment to lower testosterone levels.

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OC president Kirsty Coventry said: 'As a former athlete, I passionately believe in the rights of all Olympians to take part in fair competition. The policy that we have announced is based on science and has been led by medical experts.
'At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat. So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe.”
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Ok. I'm sorry. Is the person in this picture claiming to be a woman?
Really?.....really????
 
George1959 said:
If it is not too political I'd say your new government is working. (Otherwise please feel free to delete my comment).
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I belive the Olymics is a self governing organization made up of committee members from all countries, so no one government gets the credit for the decision to gender test athletes.
 
I think it all has a lot to do with too many individuals can't stand the word 'No.'
Whenever they don't get their own way, they yell that it's 'hate,' or similar.
 
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