Lia Thomas and other transgender athletes are banned by world swimming's governing body FINA from competing against women: Separate 'open category' will be set up

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | June 19, 2022 | Melissa Koenig

[Cecily]

Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who smashed women's records this year, will be banned from competing against biological women in international events after the world swimming's governing body announced on Sunday that it is barring transgender athletes who went through male puberty.

FINA, the international federation sports federation for swimming, announced on Sunday that it is changing its policies so that transgender women can only compete in the organization's women's races if they have completed their transition by the age of 12.

They will then have to prove to the federation that they have continuously suppressed their testosterone levels since that time.

[Cecily]

Good. Now let all other women's sports organizations follow suit. These "trans" men need to get out of women's private spaces and stop stealing their trophies and scholarships.

[DoughtyOne]

Finally, some common sense.

Men
Women
Weirdos

[TexasFreeper2009]

flat out stealing prize money and scholarships from REAL women!

[Orosius]

At first I thought this was a glimmer of sanity but they’re actually endorsing “transitions “ before the onset of puberty at age 12, which is, if possible, an even worse abomination.

[Reno89519]

Will they undo the unfair results from the past couple years?

[rarestia]

No! We should not be giving them anything. An open category is just capitulating to a very vocal minority. This madness has to stop.

[Reno89519]

And by the way, there should be no need for testosterone test. Very simply if you were born a male you compete as a male, if you’re born a female you compete as a female, otherwise you could choose to vote in the it or open category.

[max americana]

Yup. The FREAK CATEGORY after MEN and WOMEN.

[Bullish]

Puberty aside they still ain’t women... Idiots.

[DoughtyOne]

I have no problem with that.

Good luck getting this idiocy back in the tube.

[BigEdLB]

Remove them from the records and let the real women get credit.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"if they have completed their transition by the age of 12".

Meaning if they were abused children.

[Eleutheria5]

How long did it take them to have this epiphany?

[JudyinCanada]

Only 3 categories? What about all of the women who think they’re men and are competing in men’s sports? Oh that’s right....there aren’t any!

So, we have men, mentally ill men, and women.

[maddog55]

Seems to me these “things” should institutionalized along with their parents and anyone else who supports this shxt

[jmaroneps37]

This is a big kick in the ash to the frankensteins. It will force the IOC to follow suit. When that happens the bans will spread to all sports except bean bag and bowling.

[I want the USA back]

Good. Excuse me for being skeptical. Will the trans lobby swoop down and intimidate them into retracting?
Will Biden’s gestapo use its jackbooted power to destroy this bit of common sense?

[AlbertWang]

The Open category should be the Wide Open category. Anything goes.

Transgender, transsexual, trans species. Bolt on mechanical parts. Third arms surgically attached. Shark gills. Dolphin fins. Any type of dope you want.

[Terabitten]

At first I thought this was a glimmer of sanity but they’re actually endorsing “transitions “ before the onset of puberty at age 12, which is, if possible, an even worse abomination.

I wouldn't call it an endorsement so much as a devil's bargain.

[Sacajaweau]

Should have never happened to begin with. Any government ruling that gives them extra privelages denies others THEIR rights. Now get these "dudes" or whatever out of the girls bathrooms.

Add an extra bathroom and put a ? on it.