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LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports (laist.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691

The International Olympic Committee will prohibit transgender athletes from participating in women's sports, starting at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

The new policy, approved by the IOC's executive committee Thursday, requires all athletes to undergo a genetic test to compete in women's sporting events at the Olympics.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

bone and muscle density is still different, and distributed differently

I think people who say things like this don't actually know any post- or even mid-transition people.

[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don’t think you actually read my comment fully or you would know that I wasn’t talking about trans athletes at all really. Respectfully read carefully before having a knee jerk reaction. Also for the record (although the I have {insert marginalized group here} friends card is stupid) one of my closest friends in college who was alsomy roommate was trans…

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

"Biological males and females" are words that, right or wrong, have flown forth along with a great deal of spittle from the mouth of a transphobe in an effort to strip even more rights from trans people. After all, are trans people not biological? Biological women and synthetic women?