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The development comes after a presentation to the International Olympic Committee by its medical chief, which highlighted the potential physical advantages of competing in women's sport after being born male.

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Do trans women keep placing number 1 during competition?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 21 hours ago

No, but there was that fuss last year at the Olympics because some of the boxers looked manly. They weren't even trans, incidentally, not that that little fact ever made the headlines or the Facebook groups.

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

You're right, thats a very important factor to consider. We shouldnt worry about it until they start consistently placing in first place. Thats when flags will/should be raised.

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Who fucking cares about this irrelevant pissing contest anymore. It's all politics and doping scandals, what does the undercarriage have to do with ANY of that? Why would anyone even aspire to even compete in this in today's world.

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Careful, your prejudice might be showing. It'd be awfully embarassing for people to find out how terribly simplistic the paradigms are with which you're evaluating worthiness of your peers.

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world -3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It would be a shame if others realized i prejudged them on there subpar education.

It would be a shame that I so accurately deduce the competency of the masses.

I think my elitist simplistic paradigms are showing...

I hate that I have to dumb down my speech so that the ignorant masses can comprehend

[–] crabArms@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

...prejudged them on there subpar education

Very funny to use the wrong homophone in your weird cringey diatribe about how much smarter and more educated you are than everyone else

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago

Well well well, so much for being inclusive. Fucking pricks

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

They should also ban tall people from playing basketball. They have a potential physical advantage over short people.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 23 hours ago

No, they should get rid of men/women split and divide people into tiers. Each athlete would be assigned to tier based on his performance and we would have gold, silver and bronze medals in each tier. We would then say "Phelps won a Tier A gold medal in the Olympics" or "Williams won Tier D gold medal". This way it would be 100% fair and non-discriminatory.

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago

... its not the same at all. And no I won't explain all the reasons why.

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[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Olympic committee has had well established rules on transgender athletes for decades. This change is ridiculous. They might as well go back to chromosomal testing for athletes. It makes as much sense as this nonsense

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[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is just an excuse to attack trans people under the guise of fairness. It's horrible

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago

"Under the guise of fairness"

Geezus good lordy. No one can even try to be fair anymore lest they be judged as being "homophobic"...

yall suck...

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago

Fuck the Olympics. It's corrupt, it's full of cheaters and gamblers, and now more bigotry.

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