"Men Punching Women"

"At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat."

"So. it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category."

"In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe."

Kirsty Coventry, IOC president

 

"We are saying, at elite level, for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female."

"It was always very clear to me and the World Athletics Council that gender cannot trump biology."

Seb Coe, president, World Athletics Organization 

 

"[Concerning the IOC's] decision regarding transgender women athletes, integrity and fairness [in sport concerns us, as well as] equal opportunities and respecting human rights [above all] empathy, respect and care [for all Canadians]."

"Our government believes in a sport system that provides opportunities for all Canadians, including the transgender community, to participate in sport and excel without discrimination."

"[The Liberal Carney government is reviewing] the impact of this decision on Canadian athletes."

Adam van Koeverden, Sports Minister, Canada 

University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas speaks to her coach after winning the 500 meter freestyle during an NCAA college swimming meet with Harvard on January 22, 2022.

Josh Reynolds/AP 

 

"The introduction of new rules restricting participation in women's sport categories to 'biological females', determined through mandatory genetic screening and testing, imposes exclusionary criteria."

Canadian Civil Liberties Association  

Somehow, women's rights got lost in the shuffle of transactivism's aggressive marketing propaganda that entitled biological males who declared their 'true' gender to be female, challenging women on the sports fields and through alpha competitions where those born female are told to just take a breath and carry on, faced with the prospect of going up against a male competitor called 'her'. All the physical attributes of biological males in strength and endurance though dressed in a skirt rallied against the less physical inheritance of females. Lap it up, kitten.

 

Finally, however, with the courage of a few elite female sport figures having the audacity to  point out the unfairness and degradation of women's rights that have been deleteriously impacted for much too long a period of public/social compliance with the assertions of a gender-compliant entitlement programs that victimize women, the tide is turning. It did help when a smattering of male sport coaches allied themselves with female competitors in their campaign for recognition of women's rights.

 

So now, the International Olympic Committee has made it legally binding in their declaration that only 'biological females' will  henceforth be permitted to compete in t he women's category. Trust the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to add its two-cents-worth opinion that the very term "biological females" represents a "problematical term". Much, one suspects, as does the mockery in all seriousness of speaking of "pregnant persons".

 

A "once-in-a-lifetime" sex test under the IOC's new policy would ensure that females only may now compete in the female category. Transgender women to be banned from female competition. As for those  in conditions of sexual development deviations, they too are outlawed from female competitions.  The field of female sports competition narrowed down to its most elemental and sensible condition of 'females-only', thank you very much.

 

A saliva cheek swab or blood sample test for the SRY gene is to be administered: "The presence of the SRY gene is fixed throughout life and represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development", stated the IOC in explaining the reason for and the test thereof, of the vital new criteria. 

 

The World Athletics organization was first to introduce gene testing in the female category. When Algerian Imane Khelif won the women's welterweight gold medal for boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the controversy that erupted was telling, when a followup revelation reached the news that a DNA test revealed Khelif to be a biological male with XY chromosomes. 

 

Imane Khelif of Algeria (left) defeated Liu Yang of China to win Olympic gold in the women's 66-kilogram boxing event.  Maja Hitij/Getty Images

"I think it’s a shame that birth sex, or the gender you were assigned or thought to be at birth, is so enshrined in our legal and registration systems."

"Getting a gender marker formally changed on official records, identification, etc. can be a long and complicated process, requiring proof of surgery in some states, and even when a transgender person does succeed in getting a gender marker change, the marker can still put them at risk."

Sasha Carney, 24, transgender activist 

"What she [J.K. Rowling] said..."

"[The IOC decision is a] welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women."

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre