The development comes after a presentation to the International Olympic Committee by its medical chief, which highlighted the potential physical advantages of competing in women's sport after being born male.

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[–] 79 points 10 months ago (33 children)

Watch them ban transgender women and clowns like JK Rowling STILL accuse cis women in the Olympics of being trans

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago* (23 children)

    Just make the mens competition an "open" competition so that anybody can qualify if they can. A trans-woman competing in the "open" category would be no problem.

    Other categories can then stay protected.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    I get the giggles watching Anatoly prank videos. He plays a nerdy, Eastern European janitor, pushing a mop around the gym. He regularly astounds the much larger guys by effortlessly lifting their weights.

    One of his gags is casually handing the monster weightlifters his 32kg mop. They instantly drop it, "Is there problem? See! Is normal mop." Picks it up one handed, zero strain.

    This one is great! Girls are trying not to straight make fun of him talking about ab training. "Show us yours." Aight. (Can't find the better version where you can see his abs, but he's a monster.)

    Whatever his training regime, it's obvious he has muscle density bordering on superhuman. Talk about advantage!

    Or look at Michael Phelps. Dude smokes and is basically Aquaman. I forget what's unusual about his body, but he's a rare one.

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    [–] 35 points 10 months ago* (14 children)

    They should also ban tall people from playing basketball. They have a potential physical advantage over short people.

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    [–] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Welp, time for the Queer Olympics to become a thing again.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Weird how it's only about trans women and never trans men.

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    [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    Fuck the Olympics. It's corrupt, it's full of cheaters and gamblers, and now more bigotry.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    What about the potential physical advantages of competing in women's sport after being born strong?

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    [–] 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    If it wasn't for the culture wars, it would be another Oscar Pistorius situation. Not the murder, the prosthetics.

    For those who don't know this guy was a runner whose legs were amputated, and he got replacement prosthetics that made him as good if not better than runners with natural legs. There was some debate if his disability actually gives him an advantage, if it should be allowed at all.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The Olympic committee has had well established rules on transgender athletes for decades. This change is ridiculous. They might as well go back to chromosomal testing for athletes. It makes as much sense as this nonsense

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    [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    This is just an excuse to attack trans people under the guise of fairness. It's horrible

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    I think a lot of people are going to boycott these Olympics. The trump regime doesn’t deserve to host.

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