Folks, when even the United Nations is admitting it, you know something's changing:
Policies implemented by international federations and national governing bodies, along with national legislation in some countries, allow males who identify as women to compete in female sports categories.
In other cases, this practice is not explicitly prohibited and is thus tolerated in practice. The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males.
According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports.
The report, by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, drily notes that male athletes "have specific attributes considered advantageous in certain sports, such as strength and testosterone levels that are higher than those of the average range for females, even before puberty, thereby resulting in the loss of fair opportunity."
Humanity has known this for several thousand years, of course, but it's certainly heartening to see it so plainly stated in a major international organization's report.
Sporting organizations regularly mandate testosterone levels for male athletes who believe they are women, but of course these stipulations do not eliminate advantages already acquired by athletes. Therefore, "the testosterone levels deemed acceptable by any sporting body are, at best, not evidence-based, arbitrary and asymmetrically favour males."
Moreover:
Females are usually tested randomly to ensure that they are not using performance-enhancing drugs, while males are often not monitored to ensure that they are taking testosterone suppression drugs.
The report states it bluntly:
To avoid the loss of a fair opportunity, males must not compete in the female categories of sport.
