SANITYWorld Athletics bans transwoman athletes from women’s competitions.

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[–]slavdude0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

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?

[–]cephyrious 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The Olympics did the cowardly thing and let the individual sports decide on the trans issue. So in the Olympics, track and field will have rules based on this decision from WA.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That’s the way the Olympics works though, they don’t make rules on any sport they defer to the sporting body as they’re the expert on the sport. All the Olympics is is an organising body that puts on the event, all the events are run by their respective sporting body.

[–]cephyrious 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Think they have the ability to overrule the higher order decisions. They decide "X a sport", so I would think they could, if they chose to, say "X is not a woman".

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, you see that might cost them money because, just like FIFA, the IOC is really just a money-making operation. They will happily award the games to countries actively engaged in genocide in much the same way FIFA awarded a homophobic slave-state the World Cup.