International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport

I'm not a fundamentalist of any kind. I do know however exceptions always occur in nature but they don't show anything except that they are exceptions. Most individuals remain either male or female.

You have lost your mind. All this rule does is keep biological males out of female sports. It has nothing at all to do with your massive exaggeration of "the total elimination of trans people in this country."

You really need to learn to think rationally.

What is wrong with you? This is just a rule to keep men out of women's sports, and your sick, twisted mind thinks it's similar to World War 2 and the Holocaust? You're crazy!

You're confused. The top 3 "women" in the 2016 800 race were actually males with a birth defect, not women.

As males, they had a testosterone level of around 15. Females have a testosterone level of around 1. A male reducing their testosterone level from 15 down to 1 would cause all sorts of negative effects in their body. Which is why Caster Semenya and the others refused to reduce it down to normal female levels. Caster Semenya complained that they didn't feel well when they reduced their testosterone level to below 10. (The rule went from below 10, then to below 5, then to below 3.) Reducing a male's testosterone level to only 1 would be totally nuts from a medical perspective.

So no, you shouldn't be advocating that those DSD males should "get rid of their high testosterone advantage". You should advocate for no biological males in female sports.

How trans people are viewed in society by different metrics has zero to do with if they can compete in a different gender's athletic events.

it's 2026 and there's this same old tired argument for men in women's sports (just for fun name a women wanting to compete with men (Niki, are you listening?)

The trans rights brigade falsely represent the argument as an attack on "genetic advantage". It isn't. It is removing athletes who don't conform to the requirements of a specific category - in this case the female category. But apart from sexual features physical differences alone can justify exclusion from a given category, such as those who exceed weight limits in boxing or wrestling classes.

Common sense prevails. W IOC

It's not an attack on >20 year olds to ban them from under 20 categories. Keep men out of women's sports.

EPIC posts by trackfangirl (#96) and thereisnofinishline (#97). I will copy and save those. Thanks!

It's a moot point because if those XY DSD athletes could compete as women with testosterone suppressors (as Semenya did for awhile), then they probably wouldn't have hit the Olympic standards and probably wouldn't have been in the games in the first place. If they did manage to get in, then they would have been non-factors and eliminated in the heats.

Really?

Nikki Hiltz: "All Olympic athletes competing in women’s sports are now required to undergo genetic sex testing," Hiltz wrote in a post on Instagram Stories. "Attacks on trans people have consistently led to more policing and regulation of ALL women’s bodies. Everyone is hurt by transphobia.
"Y’all already know where I stand on this but this policy is so f---ing stupid and is not solving a problem that exists. I don’t know who needs to hear this but ZERO trans women competed in the Paris Olympics. Only ONE trans woman weightlifter competed in Tokyo 2021 and she did not win a medal. Can we please stop obsessing over trans people? And idk maybe focus our time, energy, and resources into real problems women’s sports face?"

You say simple because you set it up that way. Its actually mush more difficult in reality. But the truly difficult cases are 1 in many millions. If we throw out gender completely, which we should, the biology is complicated from an endocrine standpoint as people are born along quite a continuum. The SRY was used 30 plus years ago and thrown out because it was problematic. It would have dq'ed numerous females. It was used as a screening test only in 2000. Now here are talking about it again? It is best used as a screening instrument only. It will require a deeper dive for those rare athletes.

Yes, well said. The boys in girls sports issue might affect less people in this country than at least 100000000 more pressing issues. Its all fear mongering. But im generally glad the IOC did something.

Which 'females' would it have DQd though?

Are we talking Semenya types back when there was less understanding about intersex conditions?

Intersex men have been winning women's medals forever, people like Mutola, Jelimo et al would definitely have been DQd by these new rules, are these the 'women' you're talking about?

All athletes should have to do the genetic/gender testing. And the IOC should pay for it.