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[Josh 13,628]

2 hours ago, phelps said:

the same Athing Mu was suspected to be DSD (never confirmed, but somehow she totally disappeared after Tokyo)

Where did you get that?

 

I'm not sure I would have considered her to have dissapeared from out of nowhere, at least since after Tokyo... she did win medals at the next two World Championships. I think it's just recently, she's been struggling with injury which is why she's completely out of form... 

[phelps 8,766]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Where did you get that?

 

I'm not sure I would have considered her to have dissapeared from out of nowhere, at least since after Tokyo... she did win medals at the next two World Championships. I think it's just recently, she's been struggling with injury which is why she's completely out of form... 

there were rumors about it for quite a while, but as I wrote, it was never confirmed

so, it might well be just some haters throwing out some shit on her 🤷

[hoversaBR 883]

13 hours ago, Jur said:

In all seriousness, is this even a thing in any other country than in the US?

Are there really any big trans sportwomen idk about?

 

 

Like this seems to me like a "non-issue" at this point in time, I cant really understand the big picture

 

There is a transgender volleyball player here in Brazil; there was even a recent controversy (this year) when a city banned her from playing in a certain competition, which ended up in court, ultimately in her favor.

 

But the situation is much simpler than that; the reason for this decision is because of the two female boxers who won at Paris 2024 (who apparently are not transgender).

[Orangehair43 317]

5 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

 

There is a transgender volleyball player here in Brazil; there was even a recent controversy (this year) when a city banned her from playing in a certain competition, which ended up in court, ultimately in her favor.

 

But the situation is much simpler than that; the reason for this decision is because of the two female boxers who won at Paris 2024 (who apparently are not transgender).

One has already been approved under the new rules. 

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 hour ago, hoversaBR said:

 

There is a transgender volleyball player here in Brazil; there was even a recent controversy (this year) when a city banned her from playing in a certain competition, which ended up in court, ultimately in her favor.

 

But the situation is much simpler than that; the reason for this decision is because of the two female boxers who won at Paris 2024 (who apparently are not transgender).

Nope. Whether or not they were was never even a serious question, to be fair.

Edited March 27 by heywoodu

[NearPup 4,188]

54 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Nope. Whether or not they were was never even a serious question, to be fair.

Except for the British tabloid and way too many online trolls :/

[ChandlerMne 1,217]

Well done IOC, finally something sane from you.

[Pasolini 287]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Nope. Whether or not they were was never even a serious question, to be fair.

Yeah and what we will see mainly will be cis athletes that will not be able to compete.

 

It's easy to ban a couple of trans athletes.

 

But it will not be easy to decide on which DSD athletes should compete and why (I'm pretty certain some nationalities will be favored). I'm sure a lot of "feminine" athletes will have a hidden gene and some curious cases will emerge. 

 

 

[Federer91 3,390]

One of the few good things done by the IOC in the last 10-15 years... Now we are inevitably waiting for their bad decisions to even the scale.

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 hours ago, Pasolini said:

It's easy to ban a couple of trans athletes.

Especially when they barely even exist at the top level. And while this will in the end only hurt non-trans athletes, people can roll over each other to say how great this is. Smart by Coventry and in line for what one would expect from an IOC president, kiss the behind of the - in this case - American president and there you go