The Democrats’ signature issue is their demand that men be allowed to participate in women’s sports. But around the world, opinion is moving in the opposite direction, on this and other “trans” issues.
Thus, it was reported today that the International Olympic Committee will ban men from women’s competitions:
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.
Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.
This has been known for a long time, and as far as I know there is no argument on the other side. “Trans” dogma is a matter of ideology, not science. Kudos to the Olympic Committee for standing up for women.
