No one is stopping USA Track & Field or WA from updating their policy. If they do that before the start of 23-24 season, that will be the policy for NCAA track & field.
The same goes for all other NCAA sports.
The ball is in the court of World Athletics. It's unlikely that USATF will make a policy all by itself. So USATF will wait for World Athletics, but unfortunately World Athletics doesn't move very quickly.
No one is stopping USA Track & Field or WA from updating their policy. If they do that before the start of 23-24 season, that will be the policy for NCAA track & field.
The same goes for all other NCAA sports.
The ball is in the court of World Athletics. It's unlikely that USATF will make a policy all by itself. So USATF will wait for World Athletics, but unfortunately World Athletics doesn't move very quickly.
World Athletics has a "trans inclusion" policy already. Males who don't "identify as" their sex are eligible to compete in women's events so long as they make "a written declaration satisfactory" to the WA medical director that they have "a female gender identity" and they can "demonstrate" that for the 12 months prior to competing in women's events their testosterone has been under 5 nmol/L. (WA says the normal range for testosterone for males in 7.7-29.4 nmol/L and for females it's 0.02-1.68 nmol/L.)
USATF has already invoked the WA policy to declare CeCe Telfer ineligible for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Telfer most likely was declared ineligible because of the testosterone limit because that's the only part of the WA policy that has any teeth. There's no way for sports officials ever to be able to determine whether an athlete's declaration about his/her claimed gender identity is sincere. Moreover, as the IAAF/WA made clear in the Semenya case, in recent years even as "gender identity" ideology and transgenderism have grown more popular, WA has shifted away from placing much - if any - credence in how athletes see themselves, what sex they claim to "identify as" or what their passports and other IDs say. WA's focus is on biology and the material reality of athletes' bodies. Though not focused on biology enough for those who believe no one who has or was born with the SRY gene, fully developed testes, functioning male androgen receptors and has been through the male mini puberty of infancy and the longer male puberty of adolescence belongs in women's sports no matter how low their testosterone has been in recent months/years.
The fact that there are 40+ pages of yapping about the technical and procedural basis for allowing a biological male to compete and dominate against female athletes is bad comedy.
1. Taylor Ruck, JR Stanford – 1:41.12 2. Isabel Ivey, SR California – 1:41.59 3. Kelly Pash, JR Texas – 1:42.38 4. Lillie Nordmann, FR Stanford – 1:42.63 5. Lia Thomas, 5Y Penn / Riley Gaines, SR Kentucky – 1:43.40 – 7. Laticia-Leig Transom, SR USC – 1:43.49 8. Morgan Tankersley, SR Stanford – 1:43.78
5. Lia Thomas, 5Y Penn / Riley Gaines, SR Kentucky – 1:43.40
I was about to post this. Looks like Thomas sandbagged it. Had the second fastest time in the prelims and then goes considerably slower in the final. Maybe the cold reception after the 500 Free "win" had something to do with it.
Looks like international swimming has drawn a line...you go through puberty as a male, you will never race in women's events. Because once you go through that period you will have irreversible benefits. Sounds good to me.
The world governing body for swimming effectively barred transgender women from the highest levels of women’s international competition on Sunday, intensifying a debate over gender and sports that has roiled state legislatures and increasingly divided parents, athletes and coaches at all levels. The vote by FINA, which administers international competitions in water sports, prohibits transgender women from competing unless they began medical treatments to suppress production of testosterone before going through one of the early stages of puberty, or by age 12, whichever occurred later. It establishes one of the strictest rules against transgender participation in international sports. Scientists believe the onset of male puberty gives transgender women a lasting, irreversible physical advantage over athletes who were female at birth.
I'll be forever proud of my accomplishments. Yet the category of women's sports is now facing an erosion due to discriminatory policies that allow men who identify as women to compete.
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