On March 23rd, World Athletics, the international governing body for athletics, announced that biological men will no longer be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Sebastian Coe, president of the World Athletics Council, held a press conference to announce the decision.
“The council has agreed to exclude male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female world ranking competitions, from March the 31st this year. However, in order to do further research into transgender eligibility guidelines, we will be establishing a working group whose remit will be to consult specifically with transgender athletes to seek views on competing in athletics, to review and maybe commission additional research where there is currently limited research, and put forward recommendations to council. The working group will include an independent chair, up to three council members, two athletes from the Athletes Commission, a transgender athlete from athletics, three representatives of our member federations, and representatives of the World Athletics Health and Science department.”
He revealed reasons for the decision came from feedback within their community. “The majority of those consulted have stated that transgender athletes should not be competing in the female category. Many believe there is insufficient evidence that transwomen do not retain advantages over biological women and more evidence than any physical advantages must be ameliorated before they are willing to consider an option for inclusion into the female category. Where the science is insufficient to justify maintaining testosterone suppression for transgender athletes, the council agreed it must be guided by our overarching principle which is to protect the female category.”
This decision is long overdue, but nonetheless a welcomed step in the right direction. While the eye test would have been sufficient to conclude transwomen will always retain an advantage over biological women since testosterone-reducing treatments have zero impact on things such as height or skeletal structure, numerous studies over the past few years have proven that transwomen hold significant advantages over biological females. And of those testosterone-reducing treatments, additional studies have shown that medications prescribed to lower testosterone do not reduce levels enough to equal biological females.
Still, this decision is far from a final win for the commonsense crowd. Last year, a senior on the Virginia Tech women’s swim team, Reka Gyorgy, missed qualifying for the NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships by one roster spot due to biological male Lia Thomas being allowed to compete in the race. One year later, the NCAA rules remain unchanged, meaning instances such as this can continue to happen indefinitely.
But even if groups were to go back and remove biological male records from the record and retroactively award 2nd place finishers, who are biologically female, with first place, the moment they sacrificed countless hours to prepare for has already been wrongly taken from them.
In 2019, transwoman Mary Gregory of Virginia shattered the world squat record, open world bench record, masters world deadlift record, and masters world total record. Female world records, which Mary is not. The “100% Raw Powerlifting Federation” went on to strip Mary of all records broken, and trophies received. Was this the best way to right that specific wrong? Absolutely. But did that make the moment dreamed of by the biological women who were competing, where they were crowned as champion after countless hours of dedication, suddenly become real? No, and it never will no matter how much remedying is done after the fact. Which is why biological males competing in female sports needs to end in all areas immediately before more female athletes are victimized by this not-even-believable, woke lunacy that is further fueling tensions across America and the entire globe.
World Athletics’ recent decision is a good start. Let’s hope it is only a preview of more to come.
Praise the Lord all that was was a big fiasco, and it was very stupid in the political world finally common sense
A difficult decision and probably the one that more complies with scientific evidence at this time.
Does our communistic democrat government actually pay these mentally disturbed democrats to permit and make rules for these mentally disturbed transgenders ??
Transgender identifying people should compete only with other transgender identifying people only. They can have their own comities , councils and awards!
This sounds great, there are finally see what has been known from the beginning.Or is this just the people who have the power to give or take away the title of a (trans woman’s) a way to quiet those who have been protesting this terrible mess,” a hay we see the problem we understand this isn’t right. We won’t let them compete.”Because it says we will have to do more reachTo be sure banning them from competition is the right thing to do.Or some where don’t the line this is going to be reversed, for some other crazy reason they come up with.things are so messed up I have a hard time believing when I here something like this won’t be messed up later.
About time someone came to their senses!
Finally some folks are acting sane. The transgenders have a mental disorder and should be under intense psychiatric treatment. Why do Democrats coddle to this extreme minority of our population? I guess they want votes.
I totally agree! Allowing this practice to continue is a travesty to women and so many young ladies.
“Woke lunacy” is an interesting label. Individuals with gender transforming surgery could then only compete against others who have had the same surgery. Those born as biological males or females and who retain that status could then compete against others of the same biological heritage. It seems to be the fair and equitable approach for those who have spent a life time preparing for such physical and athletic competitions .
Feedback within their community. That’s should say- those of us with common sense, said enough with this nonsense. Why these associations and other so called leases feel they are hostage to these fringe individuals and not groups is beyond me. If you want be trans, bi, non-binary or dress up as a unicorn that is your choice and is your way of life, so be it. But don’t expect the 99% of society who don’t share your beliefs to be forced to either like, accept or accommodate them. Fringe views means you are outside societal norms. Deal with it!
It’s the smartest thing they have ever done.
Fantastic decision and only fair for the girls and women. We are finally headed back in the right direction.
That’s great! But we still have to keep our eyes open, even for this agency, “World Athletics.” Note that, in announcing their decision, they include plans for “establishing a working group whose remit will be to consult specifically with transgender athletes to seek views on competing in athletics,”…. Why wouldn’t such a group also consult with female athletes such as Reka Gyorgy and others who’ve been robbed of their glory? How about medical doctors who are specifically trained in testing athletics injuries? ….
I was very fortunate to travel to the historical site of the Greek games. These were about 2500 years ago! Way back then, the athletes competition was conducted in the nude to prevent men from competing in womens sport events. Did it really just take us (Modern society) this long to discover this FACT.
The MAIN reason transwomen insist they are women, so they can compete in REAL women’s sports, is because they are NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN against other biological boys or men. And they KNOW this.
In a SANE WORLD, where Common Sense makes PERFECT and LOGICAL sense, this would simply be called CHEATING and would NOT be allowed. Further, this insane idea, along with every other Left-wing lunatic and insane idea, would NEVER be happening. But unfortunately, and as tragic as it is, SANE people live in an INSANE world, controlled for the most part, by evil-spreading, INSANE Left-wing imbeciles.
Whatever they choose to call themselves, men in bras have no place in women’s competitions. Women who competed with transgendered males and came in 2nd deserve the 1st place trophy and all the perks that come with that accomplishment. To be fair to all who had been bumped off “the team”, those competitions should be done over, and the ones with trans winners struck from the record books.
It’s very simple, but how much do you want to bet that some American sports associations will defend this fraud?
Thanks Be To God!
They used to justify slavery by claiming that Black people were less human. They even used phrenology to back up that claim. Later, Black athletes were excluded from professional sports. People claimed there was nothing racist about it; it was just that Black people had a genetic advantage and it wasn’t fair for others to have to compete with them. And now we see this.
This is a grate victory for women. I hope that it stands forever, but I have doubts. When a commission to study is set up, then the victory may only be temporary.
Never should have been allowed to happen. If a male cannot compete with other males than stay home