After former Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner announced he had changed his gender to female and wished to called Caitlyn Jenner, it was only a matter of time before the transgender movement bled into the Olympics and came under consideration by those who have an influence over it.
According to new recommendations issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), transgender athletes should now be allowed to participate in the Olympics without having to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Female-to-male transgender athletes should be able to take part in the male category events without restriction and male-to-female athletes must use hormone therapy, and will need to show their testosterone levels are below ten nano moles per liter at least a year before participating and throughout the period of eligibility.
The document states that these new regulations are based on the logic of fair play, and are meant to ensure that trans-athletes are not excluded from the opportunity to participate in the sporting competition. This can be a double-edged sword.
While it ensures that females aren’t using testosterone to blow through the women’s events, it creates new avenues of unfair play for men competing in the women’s events. While their testosterone levels might be low, they’re still physically male in both skeletal and muscular structure, especially if they’re athletes. There isn’t a lot that hormones can do about that.
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Women are special, in a lot of different ways than men. Why is it so hard to understand. Its not about competition, even if it were, women would out compete men in a lot of non physical fields. Man is created to hunt, farm, fight with his muscles, and have a stronger, shock absorbing mind. Women excel in long, monotonous, tiring and activities that require machine like perseverance.
That is preposterous
Sick Sick and wrong on so many levels
Ok. I with that. All I was saying is with the times today, just make everything the same. You have transgender boys wanting to use girls restrooms. The Marine corps opening combat jobs to women! I’m fine with it, just don’t lower standards.
Stupid
China has been doing this for years…
If their bump of manhood shows or is checked, out they should go!
What about the “jewels”? smh*
I will not watch anything with men competing against women.
The other countries will laugh us out of the venue