Reality is finally setting in at the Olympics.
This doesn't mean trans-identifying males are banned … yet. However, the International Olympic Committee is preparing to do so.
From The Telegraph article above:
The Olympics is increasingly likely to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence.
Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), told Telegraph Sport in January that she favoured a blanket ban and, after winning the presidency in March, commissioned a review that assessed the permanent physical advantages of being born male.
And you'll never guess what that review has found.
Although no final decision has been made, the update to IOC members reportedly stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained even after reducing testosterone levels.
At present, the IOC lets individual sports decide their own rules on the trans issue.
Remember how that went?
I'll quote The Telegraph again:
Two boxers - Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting - won controversial gold medals at the Paris Olympics last year despite allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria at the Boxing World Championships.
We'll let you know when the IOC makes their decision. Should be an easy one.
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