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.
Trans women aren’t men.
They used to be, and that’s the issue at hand.

Hi trans woman here! HRT will make your muscle mass the same or even worse than cis women (meaning cis women are typically stronger than trans women.) Even still trans people participated in the Olympics for a very long time, since it was founded actually! It’s a relatively new rule to disallow trans people in the Olympics and you want to know why? Nazis! That’s right! If you support trans people not participating in the Olympics: you’re sympathizing with fucking Nazis!

TLDR: There’s no proof of trans people being stronger than cis people, boycott Olympics till they did their shit, Transphobic policies were made and enforced by Nazis.

Muscle mass is just one of the potential advantages that were considered in enacting this ban, and I think you know that.

Since you seem to be arguing this point in genuine good faith, and that’s increasingly rare, I wonder what your opinion would be of a woman with a genetic mutation which causes her to produce elevated testosterone, wanting to participate in women’s sports.

Keep in mind, this genetic mutation, which does happen to cisgender women, has a measurable effect on these women’s athletic performance.

This is not a gotcha question, and I’m not trying to trick you. Just genuinely curious

The whole point of the Olympics is people who are the absolute pinnacle of human ability competing against each other. If they were genuinely born like that, then that’s just how things go, just like how some people are taller or stronger than others.
So you don’t actually give a shit about being fair or logical, just targeting trans women