A major review by UK based Sports Council’s Equality Group has found that trans women have an unfair advantage in certain sports, even when testosterone levels are reduced.
Women’s sporting groups are increasingly concerned about biological males participating as females in their codes.
Queensland Netball has created a furore by allowing an all boys U17 team to compete in a high performance girls competition. The male team smashed the girls in every game.
The International Olympic committee (IOC) has failed, again, to deliver an appropriate and fair update to their transgender rules.
Christine Mboma, won a silver medal at the 2021 Olympics in the women’s 200m track. Her advantage comes from being an athlete with differences in sex development (DSD). The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) now has a wicked dilemma when it comes to protecting women’s sport.
A male ex-soldier punched and choked a woman in the name of sport.
Following on from the Tokyo Olympics, the “announce-my-sexual-identity-or-orientation” trend continues. Paralympians have jumped on the bandwagon, with two Australian women seeking publicity for their announcement.
As if anyone needed more evidence that males have a distinct advantage when it comes to competing against females in sport, Spanish football has proven it once again.
Rebecca Catherine Quinn is a Canadian soccer player.
It is a great relief that male weightlifter Laurel Hubbard failed in his attempt to succeed in the female weightlifting category at the Olympics. But disappointment is still the prevailing emotion regarding the fact he was permitted to compete in the first place.
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