How the Olympic Ban on Transgender Women Could Affect All Women Athletes
A new Olympic policy on genetic testing could reshape women’s sports and raise questions for intersex and cisgender athletes alike.
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I know this may sound harsh, but bear with me: if you test as male, no matter how you wear your hair or your clothes, , no matter the voice, the makeup, whatever, you are still a guy, with the musculature and endurance of a male. Carrying that into a group of genetically structured women puts you almost automatically in a position of superior muscle power.
The same applies to women who identify as male.
The only possible compromise is to have transgender teams, where Identified As is the norm and you compete on the same ticket.
It would also simplify the locker room quandary. Im not sure I’d want a male of any persuasion or leaning in a locker room of women.
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Hi Judy. Not sure what you mean if you test male. I told you of the woman whose genetic markers were slightly on the male side. She birthed 3 children.
There is always some advantage that some people have over others. Remember the swimmer Michael Fred Phelps II, who won a record number of gold medals? He had a genetic variant that made his arms longer than normal. If you read the article you would have noticed all the cis women who would be caught up in this due to their chemical soup being over the abartary limit imposed by the committee. We are not talking about running the gold winning male from the Olympics against teen girls. We are talking about cis women who don’t fit the parameters and who won’t be able to compete. We are talking about the runner whose body produces over the testosterone level set by the committee. The article stated they tried this before and they stopped it because it did not work and got people killed. Imagine going your entire life training in something you are good at, living in a country where there are strict rules / seperation between genders only to get to the Olympics and be told you are too mannish, your markers are too high to compete. You go home in disgrace and get arrested. The article mentions some who were arrested and killed others lived in disgrace to the point they killed themselves. The system they had was working and trans women were not winning all the medals. It was not happening. Cis women were outcompeting the trans women. So this is entirely political to please right wing authoritarian governments that ban trans people from society. It came out after tRump told the Olympic Committee that he / his administration wouldn’t let the Olympics go forward in the US if they let trans women compete. Also the administration Again notice it is always trans women not trans men they talk about.
From Erin in The Morning substack. The anti-trans policy will subject athletes competing in the women’s division—and only women’s, not men’s—to invasive sex testing to determine whether they have an SRY gene. Why this is where the International Olympic Committee chose to draw the gender line is arguably arbitrary.
No major medical organization endorses this litmus test as a reliable marker of athletic skill or “biological sex.” Even the scientist who discovered the SRY gene has slammed this practice in sports, saying “science does not support” this “overly simplistic” approach. Rather, it’s an arbitrary line in the sand used to cram unscientific ideas about gender and sex into manmade, binary boundaries.
Nonetheless, if a woman tests positive for the gene, she could be forced to compete in the “male” category. This has had dire consequences the last few times it was deployed against women’s athletes. From 1992 to 1999, cisgender women were forced into testing and found out, on the world stage, that they had intersex conditions they never knew about. The spectacle led to ostracization, disqualification, and at least one suicide before such testing was abolished. I suggest you read the entire article. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/olympic-athletes-rapinoe-and-bird
As for trans women. Two points to think on. If they have been on gender affirming care for a year the male body is no benefit and after 2 years of gender affirming care the male body they were born in is a disadvantage. That is what the medical studies show. The best thing is simply to let pre-puberty kids who are trans go on puberty blockers until they are older and then if they are still sure of their gender ID and have the concurrence of their doctors they can take the proper hormones.. The tragedy is when a person / teen who has transitioned is forced to detransition because of government interference. The other is reality and reason. If trans women had such an advantage due to going through male puberty why are they not winning all the awards / trophys / medals? They are not are they? Only a few have won any placement or top place. Remember Lia Thomas the trans woman swimmer that Riley Gaines tied for 5th place with? Thomas was a winning male swimmer who transitioned and while she trained harder than most she won less as a trans woman. Puts the lie about men claiming to be women just to win doesn’t it? Hugs
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We’re also talking about testing every woman who wants to play. So far, and I could have missed it, there is no discussion of testing men. Only women, but all women.
Why is the burden always on women? I bet I can think of a word that begins with m …
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Hi Ali. Great point, really great point. I would add two more words that both start with a P. One that starts with a P and is spelled patriarchy. Men in charge demanding more power, authority, and privileges for men especailly over women. The second word goes with the first, it is penis. Some males think having a sexual organ that dangles somehow makes you superior to those who don’t. I wonder if so much focus on trans women is males not wanting people to understand males giving up the male privileges our society gives to males. They don’t want to normalize that and they want to reinforce the idea that women need men to protect them. There are males that are horrified by the idea of men and women haveing equal privileges in society. To some males it seems as if they are being demoted or lowered in status rather than realizing women are simply taking the place they should have had all along. Equality for all makes society stronger and better. I notice these same males so outraged over other males giving up their privileged status as males to become women never express the same outrage over trans men. To them it makes sense that a woman would want to be a man. Weird. Hugs
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