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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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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

To give everyone some perspective on the BS behind these transphobic bans: professional darts and professional chess both have trans bans. It's never been about fairness in sports

[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Why should chess and darts be treated differently? There's evidence that males have an advantage in darts:

https://www.mdx.ac.uk/news/2023/2/linda-duffy-darts-psychology/

Given how many sports that males have an advantage in, it certainly seems reasonable to have sex-based competitions as the default.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (32 children)

I mean they still say that about Imane Khelif so

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 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.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

In many sports it already is

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're only a matter of time from a sporting regime where it's just broadly "open" to a level bordering on chaos, and it's the only thing that is going to keep people watching.

The "should trans people compete" debate is going to be overshadowed by the "should people with extra hearts and enhanced organs be allowed to compete" debate.

The idea of "preserving fairness" in sports is wild when you think about it. Nothing about sports is "fair" you only succeed by getting an unfair advantage over your opponents, we just like to delude ourselves into thinking that because we set some kind of parameters around this capability to gain an advantage, that it's "fair."

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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

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

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 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.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

They'll just force them to compete against women, then when a trans man wins, it'll be sold as "man pretending to be woman steals medals from women", then extend the whole trans ban.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] webp@mander.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A competition of the fastest, strongest, sweatiest gays...

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

What about the potential physical advantages of competing in women's sport after being born strong?

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They don't give a fuck about fair competition so that's irrelevant. This is just bigotry.

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[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week 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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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it wasn't for the culture wars, it would be another Oscar Pistorius situation. Not the murder, the prosthetics.

For those who don't know this guy was a runner whose legs were amputated, and he got replacement prosthetics that made him as good if not better than runners with natural legs. There was some debate if his disability actually gives him an advantage, if it should be allowed at all.

[–] azrv@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And proceeded to shoot his girlfriend on valentine's day.

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[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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I think a lot of people are going to boycott these Olympics. The trump regime doesn’t deserve to host.

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