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[–]Hannibalboy93 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Breaking! Lia Thomas and trans athletes banned, BOOM!

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

According to r/TumblrInAction, FINA, the organization that governs swimming at the World/Olympic level, technically banned transwomen unless they underwent transitioning under the age of 12.

edit: u/wafflegaff - source

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yup. Not a perfect remedy but certainly eliminates the current crop of male cheaters.

[–]CancelPowerSuper Bi Male 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's actually worse. It supports child abuse, basically "if you didn't groom your child young enough then they are not allowed to participate" It's insane.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course they are. With their biological sex.

This might very well be step one of sensible rulemaking; I am not surprised they held back from jumping 100% on board with observing that boys can't be girls and men can't be women. Take the win, it's a big one. In politics, waiting for perfection often means getting nothing. There's nothing stopping them from going further once there is evidence, applicable to their competitions, that there's still a problem. Meanwhile they still have to deal with the abusive, braying mob like the rest of us.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

While I understand the theoretical risk, I don't think parents are going to bother going through all the trouble of transing their kids so early on specifically in order to get them into women's competition if there exists a well-known precedent like this where one's plans can be so easily thwarted by a sudden rule change. I think they'll wait for the situation to stabilize first- one way or the other.