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

This site is absolutely cooked sometimes.

In most sports, men have an advantage due to physical size, it’s why sports often have a women’s and an open category.

Creating meaningful competition is why we have these categories.

Advantage based on physical size is resolved by separating competitors based on size, not gender, fucking duh

Except that studies show that outof men and women of the same exact size women are 52% as strong as men in the upper body and 66% as strong as men in the lower body.

Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37772882/

The Biological Basis of Sex Differences in Athletic Performance: Consensus Statement for the American College of Sports Medicine - PubMed

Biological sex is a primary determinant of athletic performance because of fundamental sex differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by sex chromosomes and sex hormones. Adult men are typically stronger, more powerful, and faster than women of similar age and training status. Thus, for athletic …

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He’s from ML, poor chap. Facts just confuse them.
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