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Transgender track and field athletes can't compete in women's international events
"Agree from the evidence i've read so far that of hers has little real scientific basis. I posted it just to give it an airing. That said if good evidence
arises supporting Navratilova's position then i'd agree with her that it is one area which should be farther looked at. Just grabbed this one
Listen To The Voices Of Female Athletes"
March 24, 20232:40 PM ET
Juliana Kim
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe during a press conference on March 23, 2023. World Athletics/Reuters
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World Athletics Council, the governing body for international track and field, will bar transgender women athletes from elite competitions for women.
The council's policy, which will be in effect starting March 31, largely targets athletes who transitioned from male to female after going through puberty as a male. It will also tighten rules for athletes with disorders of sexual development, cutting in half the level of testosterone athletes can have in order to compete in women's events.
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The council said they ultimately decided to prioritize "fairness and the integrity" of the female competition over inclusion. Though the council says there are no transgender athletes currently in international track and field competition, the ruling could hinder several people who've won Olympic medals in the past.
"Decisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations," Sebastian Coe, the council's president, wrote in a press statement .. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility .. on Thursday.
The World Athletics Council plans to form a working group to consider the issue of transgender inclusion over the next year. The committee will speak with transgender athletes to seek their perspective, review research on the matter and submit recommendations to the council.
World Athletics Council acknowledges that there is limited research on elite transgender athletes
At the center of the issue is whether transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over other female competitors, even after lowering their testosterone levels. But there is limited scientific research involving elite transgender athletes — which the council also acknowledged.
World Athletics Council said that they have conducted their own research over the past decade and that they found there can be an impact in performance. Several international groups including the Human Rights Watch have called the council's evidence flawed.
Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics
Olympic runner Caster Semenya wants to compete, not defend her womanhood
https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/28/1021503989/women-runners-testosterone-olympics
Even without strong evidence of an advantage, the council has scrutinized the performance of athletes such as South African runner Caster Semenya .. https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/28/1021503989/women-runners-testosterone-olympics , the world's fastest woman in the 800 meters. Semenya, who was raised female and is legally female, was born with XY chromosomes and has a naturally high .. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1021503989 .. testosterone level.
[Insert: That goes directly to my earlier: Updated: conix, With that qualification i was not thinking of athletes. How about the gender-at-birth females whose
biology is far more orientated to athletic strength and prowess than other females-at-birth are. There would no doubt be much in-built inequality there, in birth.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174071331]
In 2018 World Athletics required athletes with differences in sex development to lower their testosterone levels with birth control pills, hormone shots or surgery. Semenya refused, saying such treatments had left her feeling like she would have a heart attack .. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-sports-caster-semenya-medication-9ac09233a724c7e6373be2bcc45c34e1 , and took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ultimately ruled against her in 2019. She is currently appealing the ruling in the European Court of Human Rights.
The ban is part of a growing resistance against transgender women and girls in female sports
International track and field is not the only sport to be moving away from trans inclusion.
Last year the world governing body for swimming, FINA, prohibited transgender women from participating in female swimming competitions. In 2020, World Rugby also ruled that transgender women could not play rugby internationally out of "safety and fairness" concerns for non-transgender women.
Sports
The wave of bills to block trans athletes has no basis in science, a researcher says
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978716732/wave-of-new-bills-say-trans-athletes-have-an-unfair-edge-what-does-the-science-s
Meanwhile in the U.S., 19 states have so far banned .. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164917836/wyoming-governor-calls-trans-athlete-ban-bill-draconian-and-then-allows-it-to-pa .. transgender athletes from playing on girls or women's sports teams. In statehouses across the country this year, there are dozens of more new and proposed laws that further curb transgender rights.
NPR's Melissa Block contributed reporting.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165795462/transgender-track-and-field-athletes-cant-compete-in-womens-international-events
"Agree from the evidence i've read so far that of hers has little real scientific basis. I posted it just to give it an airing. That said if good evidence
arises supporting Navratilova's position then i'd agree with her that it is one area which should be farther looked at. Just grabbed this one
Listen To The Voices Of Female Athletes"
March 24, 20232:40 PM ET
Juliana Kim
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe during a press conference on March 23, 2023. World Athletics/Reuters
All links
World Athletics Council, the governing body for international track and field, will bar transgender women athletes from elite competitions for women.
The council's policy, which will be in effect starting March 31, largely targets athletes who transitioned from male to female after going through puberty as a male. It will also tighten rules for athletes with disorders of sexual development, cutting in half the level of testosterone athletes can have in order to compete in women's events.
[Insert: See Insert below.]
The council said they ultimately decided to prioritize "fairness and the integrity" of the female competition over inclusion. Though the council says there are no transgender athletes currently in international track and field competition, the ruling could hinder several people who've won Olympic medals in the past.
"Decisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations," Sebastian Coe, the council's president, wrote in a press statement .. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility .. on Thursday.
The World Athletics Council plans to form a working group to consider the issue of transgender inclusion over the next year. The committee will speak with transgender athletes to seek their perspective, review research on the matter and submit recommendations to the council.
World Athletics Council acknowledges that there is limited research on elite transgender athletes
At the center of the issue is whether transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over other female competitors, even after lowering their testosterone levels. But there is limited scientific research involving elite transgender athletes — which the council also acknowledged.
World Athletics Council said that they have conducted their own research over the past decade and that they found there can be an impact in performance. Several international groups including the Human Rights Watch have called the council's evidence flawed.
Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics
Olympic runner Caster Semenya wants to compete, not defend her womanhood
https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/28/1021503989/women-runners-testosterone-olympics
Even without strong evidence of an advantage, the council has scrutinized the performance of athletes such as South African runner Caster Semenya .. https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/28/1021503989/women-runners-testosterone-olympics , the world's fastest woman in the 800 meters. Semenya, who was raised female and is legally female, was born with XY chromosomes and has a naturally high .. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1021503989 .. testosterone level.
[Insert: That goes directly to my earlier: Updated: conix, With that qualification i was not thinking of athletes. How about the gender-at-birth females whose
biology is far more orientated to athletic strength and prowess than other females-at-birth are. There would no doubt be much in-built inequality there, in birth.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174071331]
In 2018 World Athletics required athletes with differences in sex development to lower their testosterone levels with birth control pills, hormone shots or surgery. Semenya refused, saying such treatments had left her feeling like she would have a heart attack .. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-sports-caster-semenya-medication-9ac09233a724c7e6373be2bcc45c34e1 , and took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ultimately ruled against her in 2019. She is currently appealing the ruling in the European Court of Human Rights.
The ban is part of a growing resistance against transgender women and girls in female sports
International track and field is not the only sport to be moving away from trans inclusion.
Last year the world governing body for swimming, FINA, prohibited transgender women from participating in female swimming competitions. In 2020, World Rugby also ruled that transgender women could not play rugby internationally out of "safety and fairness" concerns for non-transgender women.
Sports
The wave of bills to block trans athletes has no basis in science, a researcher says
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978716732/wave-of-new-bills-say-trans-athletes-have-an-unfair-edge-what-does-the-science-s
Meanwhile in the U.S., 19 states have so far banned .. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164917836/wyoming-governor-calls-trans-athlete-ban-bill-draconian-and-then-allows-it-to-pa .. transgender athletes from playing on girls or women's sports teams. In statehouses across the country this year, there are dozens of more new and proposed laws that further curb transgender rights.
NPR's Melissa Block contributed reporting.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165795462/transgender-track-and-field-athletes-cant-compete-in-womens-international-events
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