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.”
They have a special Olympics for this type of nut.
Yup, exactly. It’s like businesses or schools,or whatever that say they support everyone, and then kicking out Christians for their supposed “intolerance” of homosexual sin.
Can’t claim to be tolerant when they are intolerant of other viewpoints they disagree with
I was a good high school and collegiate thrower. I was nationally ranked for a while (Top 25 nationally) in high school and top 50 (all professionals and collegiate) in my 20s. I was good, but I wasn’t THAT good so to speak. I threw with women who were. When I started coaching, there were middle school boys (who throw the same weight as the women in the shot and discus) throwing as far as the best high school girl throwers (45-50 in shot put and 150 in discus). There is no discussion that this only grows as boys become men.
The best women pole vaulters don’t go as high as some high school boys. Other events are the same.
They might as well throw Title IX in the trash can.......................
Mentally ill people should be marginalized not catered to or praised.
When you suck in men’s Olympics
Competing Against Women In Olympics
Hey frankernstein you marginalized yourself so get lost.
You ARE marginal...live with it!
He’s being marginalized? What about the REAL women he’s going to compete against AND beat. What about his marginalizing of THEM?
Oh boohoo, You need to be running for the mental hospital track team, not in the Olympics.
Public Nuisance Doctrine.
Danger to children and others.
Jail and/or public stockade.
Dude looks ripped......
True...
Klu Klax Trans...that was funny..👍
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