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The story lasted 3 hours on Reddit before getting locked and removed with the top voted comment getting removed and the user who made the comment permanently banned from r/news.

https://www.reveddit.com/v/news/comments/11zr2ci/bbc_news_world_athletics_bans_transgender_female/

LordoftheFlies

I feel a great disturbance in the Webz, as if millions of trannies suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I believe something incredible has happened.

LordoftheFlies

Somewhat relevant, but I happened to see part of an interview that Caitlyn Jenner did on the subject of trans athletes competing with actual members of whatever they're claiming, and Jenner was against it. Or, from the part that I caught, specifically against any MtF competitor who'd undergone the effects of male puberty. Jenner correctly pointed out that FtM really don't stack up against actual men in competition, and that the bulk of the problem is with the MtF crowd.

cephyrious

Facts and reason sometimes prevail!

ClassroomPast6178

Prepare for transaggedon!

World Athletics has banned transgender female athletes from competing in the female category at international events.

The governing body's president, Lord Coe, said no female transgender athlete who had gone through male puberty would be permitted to compete in female world ranking competitions from 31 March.

A working group will be set up to conduct further research into the transgender eligibility guidelines.

"We're not saying no forever," he said.

Lord Coe added the decision was "guided by the overarching principle which is to protect the female category".

“Lord Coe” is Sebastian Coe, former Olympic long distance runner and current President of World Athletics.

And I fully believe that, despite their claim to the contrary, this is them “saying no forever” because to do anything else would be to admit that there’s evidence out there that men who have been through puberty have no physical advantages over women, which is just plain nonsense.

ClassroomPast6178

Interesting tidbit buried inside the reporting.

Coe added that a working group would be set up to do further research into transgender eligibility guidelines and insisted that 'we're not saying 'no' forever'.

He also announced stricter rules on athletes with differences in sex development (DSD).

Under previous regulations, DSD athletes only faced restrictions in events ranging from 400 metres to a mile, which prevented double 800 metres Olympic champion Caster Semenya from competing.

However, DSD athletes in all other events must also now reduce their testosterone levels to 2.5 nmol/L for at least six months, meaning Christine Mboma, the Olympic 200m silver medallist, is ineligible to compete at this summer's World Championships in Budapest.

They’ve finally decided that the farce of having doped athletes that just happen to have natural doping organs are not going to be able to compete without reducing their testosterone levels to that of a normal woman. Eminently sensible and a good decision.

The Caster Semenya situation was ridiculous.

proc0

This is one small step for common sense, and one giant leap for clown world.

bife_de_lomo

Thank goodness, a little bit of sanity returns.

Well done to Lord Seb and Sharron Davies, who were presumably working very hard behind the scenes as well as in public.

slavdude0

I'm more of a football (soccer for you heathens) and tennis dude. Is it like some viable and worldwide governing body like FIFA for example? Or can let's say Olympics change this shit?

William_World

they also need to test all alleged women. serena williams is obviously a man.

The_Best_Yak_Ever

Amazing! It’s almost like the World Athletics organization has a firm grasp of the obvious! I’m honestly so grateful that they are making their stand here. It’s grotesquely disingenuous for TRA’s to whine and moan that bio men should be allowed to barge into the women’s sport. They make bad faith arguments about how trans identified men somehow lose all the benefits of their manhood by injecting themselves with estrogen. But they can never adequately explain why it’s the trans identified men who seem to dominate in women’s sport yet trans identified women never seem to do anything but get obliterated by actual men in men’s sport. Because admitting what we all already know is anathema to them.

Life isn’t fair, we aren’t all equal, and just because you want something, doesn’t mean you get to ignore everyone else’s needs. Sorry, but if you went through male puberty, you just don’t get to barge into women’s spaces because you insist you “feeeeel” like a woman. Your feelings should not trump women’s right to be safe, nor should it trump their right to play in sports where fair play and good sportsmanship are honored and not ignored. If you suffer from dysphoria, I feel for you. I honestly do. That must be awful! I will actually show my respect by honoring your feminine or masculine preferred pronouns out of the goodness of my heart. But I won’t abide placing your wants before actual biological women’s needs. Because the needs of the many outweigh your solitary desires.

IMissPorn

bans male* athletes from women’s competitions