Phew! This is going to HELP my life IMMENSELY!
-People who Don’t watch and will NEVER watch Women’s Sports!
The new policy will be in effect at the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and will require athletes to undergo a screening for the SRY gene, “a segment of DNA typically found on the Y chromosome that initiates male sex development in utero and indicates the presence of testes/testicles.”
While this policy was under review from September 2024 to March 2026, there has only ever been one trans woman athlete in the Olympics, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who failed to make a single successful lift at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Despite this fact, the IOC policy cites its “Working Group”, a group formed in 2025 made up of specialists in sports science, endocrinology, transgender medicine, etc. and their research, which supposes that being born male gives athletes lasting physical advantages.
The policy comes after the debate around trans athletes intensified at the Paris Olympics in reaction to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting. In the wake of the boxing hysteria, Olympic track and field became the first sport to introduce mandatory DNA sex testing. The genetic tests, including those in the IOC policy, have already run into problems with national laws, like in France, where privacy laws restrict that type of testing.
Additionally, these types of tests can eliminate athletes who have difference in sex development (DSD) that can result in high levels of testosterone. Caster Semenya, a South African runner, was ordered to undergo a sex test after winning at the World Championship and found out she was born with the typical male XY chromosome pattern and high testosterone but had female physical attributes. After Semenya decided not to take hormone suppressants in order to continue participating in the track and field events, she was banned from the Olympics, the World Championships and some international meets.
This policy would require athletes with XY-DSD, like Semenya, and other athletes with a positive SRY screen, to participate in male categories and any events that do not classify athletes by sex.
I consider modern competitive sport rules stupid. Personal physiological factors may make more difference even within the same group.
Modern rules seem like bullshit when you’ve got a superhuman like Michael Phelps being touted as the best swimmer ever and if you get any kind of genetic advantage as a woman, you are categorized as a man.
I would like to know about what the lifelong effects of being born male are if you get puberty blockers at a young age tho
That and the ability of a state to burn millions of dollars per sport on a national training program for children, teens, and young adults where trying to be the best is more important than being healthy, which regularly leads to permanent debilitating injuries.
Sounds like we’re starting our own Olympics.