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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 1 day ago (2 children)

Do trans women keep placing number 1 during competition?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day 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.

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 1 day ago (4 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.

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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 1 day 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.

... 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 2 days 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 2 days ago (2 children)

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

"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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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] 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.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 78 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Watch them ban transgender women and clowns like JK Rowling STILL accuse cis women in the Olympics of being trans

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 34 points 3 days ago (22 children)

I mean they still say that about Imane Khelif so

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Weird how it's only about trans women and never trans men.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I don’t think it’s that weird. The men’s competitions don’t forbid anyone from competing if they can qualify. Cis women are allowed, and in some cases have competed in men’s sports, such as hockey. Men’s divisions should more properly be called “open” divisions.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't (most) transmen inject/otherwise take testosterone? That would be doping if a cis man did it. So I do think there's an argument there (not really any better than the argument against transwomen in women's sports, in both cases imo hormone levels just need to be monitored and you can have pretty much equal competition).

I also think at the top level it's not entirely invalid to say you don't want people with heavily modified bodies competing. Anything that isn't either the global top level or professional I find it completely ridiculous though, the level is just so wildly variant that any tiny advantage potentially gained from that is negligible anyway.

But also everything I know about the science behind it tells me trans athletes are completely fine (in trans womens case after some minimum time or HRT) because as it turns out hormones kinda determine everything about your body.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The range matters. If you’re taking T prescribed by your doctor to get within the normal range for your gender (regardless of reason, whether you’re trans or if you have T deficiency as a cis man) then you won’t be barred from competition.

Where you cross the line is when you inject T to go above the normal range in order to build muscle and recover faster. That’s what’s considered doping and doctors can’t ethically prescribe that.

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Its weird? Really?

No.. come on man, im sure you can figure this one out... youre playing dumb anyway.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Welp, time for the Queer Olympics to become a thing again.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (21 children)

Just make the mens competition an "open" competition so that anybody can qualify if they can. A trans-woman competing in the "open" category would be no problem.

Other categories can then stay protected.

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