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Transgender atheletes to be allowed to compete as the other sex in the Olympics
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:29 pm
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The Olympics are reportedly opening the field of competition to transgender athletes by adopting an updated policy that reflects standards already adopted by other regulatory sports organizations.
As first reported by Outsports, in November the International Olympic Committee received new proposed guidelines from its "Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism," allowing for broader policies for the inclusion of transgender athletes.
Olympics officials have yet to announce formally that the Games have adopted the new guidelines, which can be found on their website. If formally adopted, the potential rules update would bring the Olympics in line with the standards already employed by the NCAA in the United States by allowing both male-to-female and female-to-male transgender athletes to compete without having had surgery.
The Olympics already had rules formally allowing and acknowledging trans athletes' right to compete but with specific provisions under the Stockholm Consensus adopted in 2004 before the Olympics in Athens: Transgender athletes had to have gender reassignment surgery; they must have legal recognition of the gender they were assigned at birth; and they had to have undergone at least two years of hormone replacement therapy after surgery. The proposed new rules would bring the Olympics in line with the NCAA's standard of one year of hormone replacement therapy -- with no surgical requirement -- before being allowed to compete.
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Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:30 pm to Bench McElroy
Haha. So men will rule both sports.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:32 pm to Bench McElroy
Bruce making a come back
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:33 pm to RummelTiger
So let me get this straight....a regular straight up guy can claim he feels like a woman, get one year of hormone therapy, and compete as a woman in the olympics?
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:33 pm to Fireman17
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Bruce making a come back
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:34 pm to Bench McElroy
Might as well do away with men's and women's and just let everyone compete against everyone.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:35 pm to Bench McElroy
Well, well, well. This trainwreck will certainly be fun to watch. American feminists complaining about transmen from underperforming nations scooping up all the medals.
It will at least settle one argument once and forever, that men and women aren't equal
It will at least settle one argument once and forever, that men and women aren't equal
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:37 pm to Bench McElroy
Didn't East Germany do this in the 1970's and 1980's anyway?
This post was edited on 1/23/16 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:38 pm to tigerfan88
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So let me get this straight....a regular straight up guy can claim he feels like a woman, get one year of hormone therapy, and compete as a woman in the olympics?
No, he has to get TWO years of hormone therapy. Then it's all good, apparently
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:39 pm to Bench McElroy
And the lunatics continue to run things. This will be fun. Feminists are aligned with transgenders so they can't bitch.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:41 pm to Fun Bunch
This house of cards is going to collapse in on itself. This kind of thinking has a chance to really frick women's sports all kinds of up and the pendulum will swing the other way if that occurs.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:42 pm to Bench McElroy
Good deal. Society becomes more fair by the day now.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:44 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Explain how that is "more fair".
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:46 pm to TbirdSpur2010
No, all they will need is one year of replacement therapy.
"The proposed new rules would bring the Olympics in line with the NCAA's standard of one year of hormone replacement therapy -- with no surgical requirement -- before being allowed to compete."
"The proposed new rules would bring the Olympics in line with the NCAA's standard of one year of hormone replacement therapy -- with no surgical requirement -- before being allowed to compete."
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:46 pm to Bench McElroy
China will once again dominate womens swimming
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:47 pm to Bench McElroy
What if you do the 1 year of replacement then stop doing it 1 year before the Olympics. Female events are about to get crazy
This post was edited on 1/23/16 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 1/23/16 at 3:49 pm to Bench McElroy
frick yeah, women's powerlifting here I come. Always wanted to be an Olympian.
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