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.

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Which is a good thing, that way trans athlete won’t go so they dont get put in jail by american fascists

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Silver linings I guess. But all the non conventionally attractive women will be prosecuted. Its funny they never care about Trans the other way 'round

  • PagPag@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Is this even controversial? There’s a reason men and women sports were separated to begin with.

        • GarboDog@lemmy.world
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          28 days ago

          Hi trans woman here! HRT will make your muscle mass the same or even worse than cis women (meaning cis women are typically stronger than trans women.) Even still trans people participated in the Olympics for a very long time, since it was founded actually! It’s a relatively new rule to disallow trans people in the Olympics and you want to know why? Nazis! That’s right! If you support trans people not participating in the Olympics: you’re sympathizing with fucking Nazis!

          TLDR: There’s no proof of trans people being stronger than cis people, boycott Olympics till they did their shit, Transphobic policies were made and enforced by Nazis.

          • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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            28 days ago

            Muscle mass is just one of the potential advantages that were considered in enacting this ban, and I think you know that.

            • -☆-@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              28 days ago

              Since you seem to be arguing this point in genuine good faith, and that’s increasingly rare, I wonder what your opinion would be of a woman with a genetic mutation which causes her to produce elevated testosterone, wanting to participate in women’s sports.

              Keep in mind, this genetic mutation, which does happen to cisgender women, has a measurable effect on these women’s athletic performance.

              This is not a gotcha question, and I’m not trying to trick you. Just genuinely curious

              • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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                28 days ago

                The whole point of the Olympics is people who are the absolute pinnacle of human ability competing against each other. If they were genuinely born like that, then that’s just how things go, just like how some people are taller or stronger than others.

                • -☆-@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                  26 days ago

                  Well, unfortunately, I was genuinely born a woman. Though everyone, including myself, got it wrong for about 20 years.

                  I believe that to compete in woman’s sports early on in my transition might have given me an advantage (emphasis on might. I would’ve had to be an already athletic trans person, which is an overlap of a rare category and an ultra rare, but it does happen and obviously needs to be accounted for.) But at this point? After taking estrogen for a decade, any ‘bonus’ muscle mass I got from having extra testosterone (which can happen to cis women too, as a reminder) is definitively gone. I actually lost it on purpose because it gave me dysphoria, but even if I hadn’t it would be gone by now. I’m tall for a woman, but that’s it at this point. I’ve met taller (presumably) cis women than me too. I also think they should be allowed to compete against other women.