As our nation debates the issue of transgenderism, it looks like the sports world is tackling the issue head on.
The International Olympic Committee has announced that the 2018 winter games will allow transgendered athletes to compete.
This is guaranteed to cause controversy. No matter what your stance is on transgenderism, sports is a whole other ball game (pardon the pun). There’s no doubt some athletes will question the wisdom of this decision. That’s because they understand the natural, biological differences between males and females that lend themselves to different athletic performances.
For example, adult men are naturally 9 percent taller than women (on average) and have 30 percent more lung capacity. When it comes to physical strength, on average women only have 40-60 percent the upper body strength of males, and 70-75 percent the lower body strength.
The issue of transgender athletes is certainly a controversial one – and it’s going to become an even more controversial during the 2018 Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that it would allow transgender athletes to compete in whatever category they wish to participate in during the 2018 Winter Olympics, a report says.
IOC officials noted that they will not require athletes to compete in categories that match their birth gender nor will there be any gender or sex testing of competitors ahead of the games, Daily Caller reported.
“With regard to Hyperandrogenism in female athletes, there were no regulations in place at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 and there will be no regulations in place at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 as we are still awaiting the resolution of the Dutee Chand case,” the IOC recently claimed. The Dutee Chand case concerns the Indian sprinter who is fighting rules that prevent her from competing because she exhibits “female hyperandrogenism,” and has too many natural male traits which may give her an advantage over female opponents. She was banned from competition because her natural testosterone levels exceeded the IOC’s rules. However, India is appealing the ruling.
H/T Viral Patriots
In 2016, the IOC announced that the games wouldn’t require athletes to undergo surgery before competing in their preferred category. During the Rio Grande games in 2016, transgendered athletes were allowed to compete but none did. The 2018 games will be the first time this rule is put to the test in the winter games.
This could have some significant consequences, including massive record-breaking.
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There are already a lot of transgender athletes competing – they are called Russians.
Go back to your basement Brian and take a pill.
As if this poll would have ever turned out differently with the GOP fascists in charge….
What if they held the Olympics and NOBODY WATCHED!!!
The only way to fairly allow competition for the transgender is to have transgender competition categories. These are a different breed of human being, and need to compete with other transgenders. In that way, there will be no protests. It is obviously unfair and unequal to match them in competitions with athletes who have not changed their physical identity. Or do these promoters want to encourage more violence instead of nations united in peace?
With that decision, why even separate women and men competitions, let them all go under one category “people”???????????????????
If they compete in their birth sex class, let the crazies go for it. Might as well, these events don’t mean much anymore.
Renamed “The Fraud Olympics”
The fall of the Olympics.Will those sissies be wearing rainbow colored tights too?
i watched a supposed woman destroy a real woman in an mma contest…she was hospitalized!!!
I stopped watching the Olympics 20 years ago!
They should have their own olympics like the physically challenged do
Absolutely. Sex is determined by the presence or absence of the Y chromosome. That is, if you have a Y chromosome, you are paired w/the X, you are XY or a male. If not, you are a double XX, or female. With few rare genetic exceptions, deformities, THIS is what determines sex. NOT what you dream up in your head. And it is NOT fair to others to make them suffer for your delusion.
Might as well have no classifications. If transgenders participate as the sex they have become, it makes no sense to separate the categories by sexual orientation.
Allowing transgendered (screwball fakes) in Olympic competition will be the end of modern Olympics
There are already a lot of transgender athletes competing – they are called Russians.
As if this poll would have ever turned out differently with the GOP fascists in charge….
Go back to your basement Brian and take a pill.
What if they held the Olympics and NOBODY WATCHED!!!
The only way to fairly allow competition for the transgender is to have transgender competition categories. These are a different breed of human being, and need to compete with other transgenders. In that way, there will be no protests. It is obviously unfair and unequal to match them in competitions with athletes who have not changed their physical identity. Or do these promoters want to encourage more violence instead of nations united in peace?
With that decision, why even separate women and men competitions, let them all go under one category “people”???????????????????
If they compete in their birth sex class, let the crazies go for it. Might as well, these events don’t mean much anymore.
Renamed “The Fraud Olympics”
The fall of the Olympics.Will those sissies be wearing rainbow colored tights too?
i watched a supposed woman destroy a real woman in an mma contest…she was hospitalized!!!
I stopped watching the Olympics 20 years ago!
They should have their own olympics like the physically challenged do
Might as well have no classifications. If transgenders participate as the sex they have become, it makes no sense to separate the categories by sexual orientation.
Absolutely. Sex is determined by the presence or absence of the Y chromosome. That is, if you have a Y chromosome, you are paired w/the X, you are XY or a male. If not, you are a double XX, or female. With few rare genetic exceptions, deformities, THIS is what determines sex. NOT what you dream up in your head. And it is NOT fair to others to make them suffer for your delusion.
Allowing transgendered (screwball fakes) in Olympic competition will be the end of modern Olympics