Posted on 06/20/2022 11:18:19 AM PDT by NorthMountain
Controversy over biological men competing in women's sports has been a hot-button issue for years due to concerns over competitive fairness.
FINA, the international swimming federation, announced Sunday that transgender athletes are permitted to compete in women's sports if they transitioned before the age of 12.
The 24-page guideline, which takes effect Monday, specifies how transgender men and women are allowed to participate under the new rules.
CBN News and CBN's Faithwire have extensively reported on the increase of biological males who are dominating girls' athletic competitions because they can compete as females.
Lia Thomas, a transgender collegiate swimmer with the University of Pennsylvania, has become the face of the debate over sports and gender identity.
Thomas competed for three seasons as Will Thomas on the UPenn men's swimming team but started competing on the women's team last fall. He began taking hormone replacement therapy to lower his testosterone in May of 2019.
British former swimmer Sharron Davies tweeted her support for FINA's decision.
"I can't tell you how proud I am of my sport … for doing the science, asking the athletes/coaches and standing up for fair sport for females," her tweet read. "Swimming will always welcome everyone no matter how you identify but fairness is the cornerstone of sport."
Meanwhile, LGBT advocacy group, Athlete Ally, opposed the new policy.
"FINA's new eligibility criteria for transgender athletes and athletes with intersex variations is discriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles," its tweet read. "If we truly want to protect women's sports, we must include all women."
FINA plans to create an "open" category for competitions within the next six months.
"FINA will always welcome every athlete," president Husain Al-Musallam said. "The creation of an open category will mean that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so FINA will need to lead the way. I want all athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process."
What a mess the government created by recognizing these “immorals” as a privileged entity....who could override the morality of our nation.
Stupid. Why the before 21 BS? Just make it simple, compete in your birth sex or a new Open (Or “It”) category.
Good point ... although there’s really no reason to get your johnson chopped off if you want to compete in the Open category ...
It could just turn into a “second-rate men” category with the intact, but not first rate, men dominating the eunuchs.
they not only over-rode our nation’s morality, they made it unlawful to even criticize them under penalty of ‘hate crime laws’ if someone should- man was just arrested and charged for several ‘hate crime laws’
That would be “transphobic” ... the mutilated, and their simps, would be whining for the waaaaahmbulance.
I’d make it even simpler: compete in your sex. “Birth sex” is a redundancy. ;’}
I’m a very much third rate athlete. BFD. I don’t go whining about it or trying to screw up the women’s competition. I EARNED my middle-of-the-pack finish.
It is bad decision in more ways than one.
It should have made a straight forward decision that restricted competition by biological sex, period.
By accepting persons who “transitioned” to the sex opposite their biological sex “before age 12”, they encouraging the worst life-prospect for those so encouraged.
Recent studies have shown that puberty blockers and “trans” surgery (mutiliation in my view) for youths with gender dysphoria leads to an unsatisfactory “seuxal life” after “trans surgery” than is the case for those who go through the normal puberty of their bilogical sex before the “trans surgery”. The difference lies in the under-development of the tissue and surrounding nerves “reassigned” in the “trans surgery”. They remain immature and often lack any “sexual response” ability. The ruling is stupid because it is not good for the life of those it purports to help.
This ruling makes sense and it is the only one that does.
Imagine who will be in that stands to watch these things compete.
Fake males and females should only compete against other fake males and females. But don’t expect a lot of spectators.
So, for the ‘open’ category, will they call it ‘drag racing’?
The parents of anyone who "transitioned" before age 12 should be in prison for child abuse.
Or hanged from a gibbet in front of the county court-house ...
Yes, as I've written here many times, really bad things happen when governments pretend things to be true that aren't true. Five examples:
Witch hunts
Slavery
Holocaust
Abortion
And now pretending that homosexuality is normal is causing all kinds of problems.
The decision was only made AFTER the fake female swimmer mentioned he wanted to try next for the US Olympic team.
Someone, somewhere, sat up, and said, “Shit.”
DU has new rules for what you can and can't post about trannies.
So many comments, I did not read them all but notice the large numbers of comments compared to the other topics. Trump and Trans. It's all they think about.
Bruce Jenner is a man.
If I posted the above on the DUmp, it seems that I would be banned ...
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