Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has told of her 'pride' for the sport after FINA announced it will be banning transgender athletes from women's races in favour of an 'open category'.
In the interest of fairness to women, I do agree with Fina's ruling. I do not agree with the previous events which the NCAA did nothing about. It's an ideological construct.
I smell a lawsuit. Guessing this won't be the final word on the subject.
I don't think a lawsuit would succeed unless they tried to apply the rules retroactively and start stripping titles and such won when the rules were not in place. For example, trying to vacate Thomas' NCAA titles would be an example of a lawsuit that FINA would lose.
There's nothing they can do if the rules are applied forward only unless it impacts athletes who were guaranteed a spot at certain future meets.
anyone born male should not be allowed to compete in the female category. This is a good and sensible decision (apart from the weird bit about transitioning before age 12).
well, the only thing I will add is that if a parent is ok with transitioning their child 12 or younger that is pretty messed up. And when I say transition I meanpuberty blockers, surgery, etc.
well, the only thing I will add is that if a parent is ok with transitioning their child 12 or younger that is pretty messed up. And when I say transition I meanpuberty blockers, surgery, etc.
On the contrary I was planning on my 7 year old son competing in swimming, going trans, and toppling Lia Thomas' records. Now with this new rule change we will need to plan to transition him around 11 years 10 months to be sure we get in under the deadline.
Can't believe we're relying on someone named Husain Al-Masallam to protect the integrity of women's sports because white people are too woke to do it now.
71% of Fina members voted for the change. Al-Masallam didn't change it by himself.
As for the lawsuit, the panel included legal experts in addition to medical and sports experts. So they certainly considered that possibility.
A good thing about swimming is that most of top level swimmers start at very early ages. So you have the pre and post times to compare in determining the advantage of male puberty. Other sports may not have that luxury.
Can't believe we're relying on someone named Husain Al-Masallam to protect the integrity of women's sports because white people are too woke to do it now.
71% of Fina members voted for the change. Al-Masallam didn't change it by himself.
Name all 71% of them. They might as well be voting by secret ballot if they don't actually do so.
Hussain put his face on this because he was the only one with the backbone to do so. He wasn't castrated by a woke white self-hating mob.
Or are you still a bigot if you think that’s wrong?
You, specifically, are still a bigot.
I'm kind of curious if CAS regrets how they ruled in the Chand case. By that logic, you need some strong evidence along the lines of the Rio 800m to ban Trans women from women's events.
