Dan Roan, a BBC Sports editor, pretends not to know that men have physical advantages over women.
“This is a question where there is no one-size-fits-all solution. It differs from sport to sport.”
The words of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach in July 2021, when claiming that sex eligibility criteria should be left to each individual sport to determine.
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Yet just five years on, Bach’s successor Kirsty Coventry has announced a blanket ban on transgender women, as well as athletes with differences in sex development (DSD) who have gone through male puberty from female events, “to protect fairness, safety and integrity”.
Oh dear, a blanket ban, how very crude and sweeping and not what the cool kids do.
From the 2028 LA Games, eligibility for women’s competition at all IOC events will be limited to biological females, and determined on the basis of a one time SRY gene screening, which detects the presence of a Y chromosome and male sex development.
Can you believe it? From 2028 men won’t be allowed to insert themselves into women’s competition – it’s outrageous!
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