Posted on 05/10/2023 5:54:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Transgender-identifying sprinter Halba Diouf, a biological male who claims to be a woman, fumed over World Athletics’ decision to ban biological males from competing against women in the Summer 2024 Paris Olympics.
The French native began transgender procedures in 2021 and planned on competing in the women’s 200-meter race but is now barred from the competition.
“I cannot understand this decision as transgender women have always been allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold,” Diouf claimed in an interview. “The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish, and we are being refused that, we are being hounded … I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions.”
The World Athletics Council announced back in March that it would no longer allow transgender athletes to compete against women in female World Rankings competitions.
The move, which went into effect at the start of April, banned “male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty.”
“Decisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,” said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. “We will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years. As more evidence becomes available, we will review our position, but we believe the integrity of the female category in athletics is paramount.”
The organization said that it consulted with Member Federations, the Global Athletics Coaches Academy and Athletes’ Commission, and the IOC when making its decision and that there was “little support within the sport for the option that was first presented to stakeholders, which required transgender athletes to maintain their testosterone levels below 2.5nmol/L for 24 months to be eligible to compete internationally in the female category.”
World Athletics is the international governing body for sprints, middle/long, hurdles, road running, jumps, throws, combined events, race walks, relays, cross country, mountain running, ultra running, and trail running.
“There are currently no transgender athletes competing internationally in athletics and consequently no athletics-specific evidence of the impact these athletes would have on the fairness of female competition in athletics,” the organization said at the time. “In these circumstances, the Council decided to prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion.”
Marginalized? Is that anything like a micro-aggression? Libs are a bunch of pussies.
You deserve to be marginalized!
Cry me a river fruit cake!...
plan c
identify as developmentally challenged
and dominate special olympics
Well, there’s always competing against OTHER dudes.......I’m sure no one would complain.........IF you can make the cut that is.
You should race against other trans genders.
See how that works
However, he is not concerned that he marginalized all of the actual women in the competition. It’s hard to find a group of people more self centered and devoid of reality than the trans crowd.
“a biological male who claims to be a woman....”
Kudos to the writer for actually saying out loud what every sane person in the world already knows.
He should take it like a man.
Like all the women you competed against?
You should be, sicko.
Exactly. Those folks are too funny for words. There are two in Mrs CG’s extended family.
…and?
The insane left has a problem.
Trans are the on the margin. He is a man pretending to be a woman. He should not be in women’s sports.
Come on, put on your big boy pants. grow a pair. gut up dogface. BE A MAN about it.
Hey, transvestites!
You marginalized YOURSELVES by pretending to be genetic XX when you are genetic XY.
I would be marginalized, too, if I chose to be something I clearly am not.
You know, like claiming to be Napoleon.
“Trans Runner Whines After Being Barred From Competing Against Women In Olympics: ‘I Feel Marginalized’ “
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Ohhhh get ready…
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