My congratulations to the International Olympics Committee. It has conducted a revelatory investigation and determed that – gasp!!! – men are not women!!!!!
From Martyn Ziegler’s article for the Times of London:
The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.
The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category.
The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into transgender athletes and competitors with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.
Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.
Men are physically different than women? Get out of here!!
Gee, what gave it away? The fact that men are taller? Weigh more? Have greater overall physical strength? Or maybe that they far outdistance women in virtually every women’s competition they are allowed to participate in?
Well, tell you what. Regardless of how the IOC came to this conclusion, I am happy that the folks over there figured it out…and are therefore giving women a, er, sporting chance at the 2028 olympics.
And maybe even more. If the IOC can come up with something this amazing, who knows what it will discover next. Maybe that Arby’s advertising slogan (“We have the MEATS!“) probably doesn’t attract many vegetarians to their restaurants? We can only hope.
