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Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
The Times (UK) ^ | November 10, 2025 | Martyn Ziegler

Posted on 11/10/2025 10:49:33 AM PST by Salman

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category.

The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into the issues of transgender athletes and athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.

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(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; homosexualagenda; ioc; olympics

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There's some dishonest jargon in the article, but the meaning is still clear.

A win for sanity.

1 posted on 11/10/2025 10:49:33 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

A federal judge will block it...............


2 posted on 11/10/2025 10:51:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Salman

A not-so-outright admission that transgender women are men.


3 posted on 11/10/2025 10:52:36 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Salman

A quick run through the headline translator:
“Anyone except women banned from female Olympic events”


4 posted on 11/10/2025 10:54:04 AM PST by Fireone (1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Salman

Science based evidence. You either male or female. No need for a study. Geez


5 posted on 11/10/2025 10:54:58 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: Salman

Olympics have to cater to preferences worldwide. The world rejects this trans bs, especially allowing biological men to compete in sports as women. Trans gets traction in the US and Europe, and that’s it.


6 posted on 11/10/2025 10:56:57 AM PST by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity / Especially in NYC!)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t think a US federal judge has any authority in matters relating to the IOC. The IOC is headquartered in Switzerland. However, that does not mean a federal judge will try to intervene.


7 posted on 11/10/2025 10:58:33 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

They think they are omnipotent...........


8 posted on 11/10/2025 11:00:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Salman

That is to say, “men”


9 posted on 11/10/2025 11:01:37 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now,)
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To: Red Badger

Indeed they do. They may find that their rulings do not apply to NGOs in Switzerland.


10 posted on 11/10/2025 11:02:00 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Does this mean the Olympics still won’t allow female sumo wrestling? LOL


11 posted on 11/10/2025 11:02:10 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Salman

MEN! Not “transgender women”!*


12 posted on 11/10/2025 11:02:36 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Salman

So “science” finally discovered what any sane person already knows.


13 posted on 11/10/2025 11:02:59 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Hyman Roth

Yes they said its based on science. We have been told by the liberals we need to trust the science.


14 posted on 11/10/2025 11:03:02 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Salman

Hwy libtard writers in the UK, there is no such thing as a “transgender women” as they are either XX or XY. Pretty sure a kid in pre-kindergarten could understand these two letters.


15 posted on 11/10/2025 11:05:52 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Salman

Should have never happened in the first place. That’s what happenes when you don’t “nip it in the bud”.


16 posted on 11/10/2025 11:09:02 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Salman

Silly leftists. Headline broken.

“MALES to be banned from all female Olympic events”

There, I fixed it for you.

Thank you, IOC, for fixing this for WOMEN.


17 posted on 11/10/2025 11:09:27 AM PST by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: Maine Mariner

The 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles..............


18 posted on 11/10/2025 11:10:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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A crazy far left US federal judge with authority over The International Olympic Committee?
Under what law?
19 posted on 11/10/2025 11:11:54 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Salman

So does that circus side show from whatever-a-stan that was punching out females in the boxing matches.....is he out? or can he compete because he was a hermaphrodite or some weird crap?


20 posted on 11/10/2025 11:13:42 AM PST by suasponte137
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