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Headline is inaccurate. Transgender athletes are not barred from women's events. Female athletes who identify as men, or otherwise do not identify as women, ca
by barrance 6mo ago
Headline is inaccurate.
Transgender athletes are not barred from women's events. Female athletes who identify as men, or otherwise do not identify as women, can still compete in this category, as they have been doing already.
What the IOC's new policy actually does is make male athletes ineligible for competition in the female category, with very few exceptions. These exceptions are for athletes who are technically male but have a disorder of sex development that confers no male advantage, e.g. CAIS.
- lux-lux-lux 6mo agoTransgender women aren’t ’male athletes’
- barrance 6mo agoWhy do you believe that?
- asterix_pano 6mo agoWhy not? Aren't you mixing gender and sex?
- harveychess 6mo agoIf you try to define athletic divisions by sex, you're going to have a hard time. The world's best athletes probably all have some unusual biology. About 1.7% of people are not completely biological male or female. I would expect that proportion to be higher for Olympic athletes. Excluding 1.7% or 2% or 10% of the world's best athletes from competing would not be fair.
- zeven7 6mo agoAnybody can compete in the unsexed category. It’s only the female sex category where someone can be barred. No one is barred from competing at the highest level.
- dyauspitr 6mo agoYes they are. What you identify as doesn’t change factual data.