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Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy (apnews.com)

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[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 hours ago

Why were they ever allowed to compete in the first place?

[–] Domi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 day ago (23 children)

There is no good evidence that transgender women who have been on GAHT for two years have any physical advantages over cisgender women. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198

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[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Were transgender women winning a lot of golds at Olympic events?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_(soccer)

Nothing else in terms of medals. One trans woman in power lifting who didn't even place and IIRC nothing else for trans competitors.

[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 11 points 22 hours ago

Not a problem that needed solving then. Common IOC L.

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[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

At this rate trans should launch their own olympic games.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 8 points 21 hours ago

Can we just, I dunno, end competitive sports for a while already?

The planet is going to shit, dictatorships are running wild, democracy is dying, wars, …

Meanwhile these assholes are SOOOO concerned about people their genitalia and using that to distract people from ACTUAL problems. Like maybe just stfu and go away.

Same for the whole Eurosong debacle btw.

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