LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports

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LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports - Divisions by zero

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691 [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.

Is this even controversial? There’s a reason men and women sports were separated to begin with.
The reasons we separate sports by gender are and have always been stupid
Probably will be downvoted into oblivion but I’m going to disagree with you. The trans argument is a separate one but having some sex separated sports absolutely makes sense. There are undeniable biological differences physically between biological males and females. Height and weight class would make 0 sense because bone and muscle density is still different, and distributed differently as an aggregate. I think most people who say this stuff don’t actually play sports.

bone and muscle density is still different, and distributed differently

I think people who say things like this don’t actually know any post- or even mid-transition people.

I don’t think you actually read my comment fully or you would know that I wasn’t talking about trans athletes at all really. Respectfully read carefully before having a knee jerk reaction. Also for the record (although the I have {insert marginalized group here} friends card is stupid) one of my closest friends in college who was alsomy roommate was trans…
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