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Trans Runner Whines After Being Barred From Competing Against Women In Olympics: ‘I Feel Marginalized’
Daily Wire ^ | May 10, 2023 | By Ryan Saavedra

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.”


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1 posted on 05/10/2023 5:54:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Marginalized? Is that anything like a micro-aggression? Libs are a bunch of pussies.


2 posted on 05/10/2023 5:55:10 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Red Badger

You deserve to be marginalized!


3 posted on 05/10/2023 5:55:50 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Red Badger

Cry me a river fruit cake!...


4 posted on 05/10/2023 5:57:31 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Red Badger

plan c

identify as developmentally challenged

and dominate special olympics


5 posted on 05/10/2023 5:58:55 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Delta 21

Well, there’s always competing against OTHER dudes.......I’m sure no one would complain.........IF you can make the cut that is.


6 posted on 05/10/2023 5:59:11 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

You should race against other trans genders.
See how that works


7 posted on 05/10/2023 5:59:19 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: ComputerGuy

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.


8 posted on 05/10/2023 5:59:33 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Red Badger

“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.


9 posted on 05/10/2023 6:00:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

He should take it like a man.


10 posted on 05/10/2023 6:01:17 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Red Badger
‘I Feel Marginalized’

Like all the women you competed against?

11 posted on 05/10/2023 6:03:21 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Red Badger

You should be, sicko.


12 posted on 05/10/2023 6:05:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Dutch Boy

Exactly. Those folks are too funny for words. There are two in Mrs CG’s extended family.


13 posted on 05/10/2023 6:06:57 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Red Badger
”I feel marginalized”

…and?

14 posted on 05/10/2023 6:07:39 AM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Red Badger

The insane left has a problem.


15 posted on 05/10/2023 6:07:56 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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To: Red Badger

Trans are the on the margin. He is a man pretending to be a woman. He should not be in women’s sports.


16 posted on 05/10/2023 6:08:53 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Delta 21

Come on, put on your big boy pants. grow a pair. gut up dogface. BE A MAN about it.


17 posted on 05/10/2023 6:09:47 AM PDT by silent majority rising (Peace In Our Time)
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To: Red Badger

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.


18 posted on 05/10/2023 6:10:42 AM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

“Trans Runner Whines After Being Barred From Competing Against Women In Olympics: ‘I Feel Marginalized’ “

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!


19 posted on 05/10/2023 6:11:51 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

Ohhhh get ready…


20 posted on 05/10/2023 6:12:01 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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