Oh gosh, who knew?

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Ophelia Benson

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Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events

They never should have been allowed. Obviously.

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.

Come on. They didn’t need a science-based review. They’ve always known about the permanent physical advantages. Everyone has. Letting men who pretend to be women compete against women was always a terrible idea. Everyone knew that, but way too many people were happy about it anyway.

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8 responses to “Oh gosh, who knew?”

  1. Athel Cornish-Bowden Avatar
    Athel Cornish-Bowden

    Gosh yes. I’m bigger and stronger than my wife (at least, I was until I started disintegrating from old age) but I thought that was just us. If it hadn’t been for the science-based review of evidence I might not have realized that it was a general phenomenon.

  2. Freeminder Avatar
    Freeminder

    At least the IOC wins the wooden spoon for finally pointing out the bleedin’ obvious!

  3. Sumi Avatar
    Sumi

    What? Males have a permanent physical advantage? So that explains the different sex-based Olympic qualifying standards and records! Boy, was that science-based review money well spent. How else could we have figured it out?

  4. Jim Baerg Avatar
    Jim Baerg

    I’m currently reading

    T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

    by Carole Hooven

    Chapter 5 on the Edge T gives in most athletic competitions is of course relevant here.

  5. Bjarte Foshaug Avatar
    Bjarte Foshaug

    I think an apology to the women cheated out of medals (or even participation) is in place…

  6. Catwhisperer Avatar
    Catwhisperer

    Hang on, guys, I’ve just had an idea! If it’s true that men are generally stronger than women… could that explain how we ended up with men being in charge of everything for all of human history? Someone should look into that.

  7. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    Strangely, no storm of fury noted yet in FTB.

  8. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Very strange indeed.

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