Olympics Committee: We Are Reserving Women's Sports For -- and This is a Genuine Twist -- Women

The policy actually isn't 100% solid. They say that men will be excluded from women's sports -- again, what an innovation -- in sports involving "strength, power, and endurance."

So that means that transgenders would be allowed to compete in... like shooting sports and ice-dancing, maybe?

Whatever.

I'm linking ESPN/AP because their tears are so unfathomly delicious.

GENEVA -- Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy Thursday that aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

They're all crying about that -- that this policy aligns with the Bad Orange Man's executive order, so, of course, this is a corrupt decision made by cowards who Hate Transwomen and want to Erase Their Existence.

I just turned into Pinhead the Cenobite. Your pain, your pain is exquisite!

"Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females," the International Olympic Committee said, to be determined by a mandatory gene test once in an athlete's career.

How I howl in ecstasy! Your excrutiations thrill me to the marrow!

It is unclear how many, if any, transgender women are competing at an Olympic level. No woman who transitioned from being born male competed at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, though weightlifter Laurel Hubbard did at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 without winning a medal.

The eligibility policy that will apply from the L.A. Olympics in July 2028 "protects fairness, safety and integrity in the female category," the IOC said.

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"It is not retroactive and does not apply to any grassroots or recreational sports programs," said the IOC; its Olympic Charter states that access to play sport is a human right.

After an executive board meeting, the IOC published a 10-page policy document that also restricts women athletes such as two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya with medical conditions known as differences in sex development, or DSD.

Like that Iranian boxer who had a Y chromosome but claimed he was a woman because his genitals were improperly formed?

How delicious! Your cries for mercy echo sweetly in my ears!

The IOC and its president, Kirsty Coventry, have wanted a clear policy instead of continuing to advise sports' governing bodies, which previously have drafted their own rules.

"At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat," Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said in a statement. "So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category."

ohhh ahhhh ooooh

I just made a mess on my Lament Configuration. Is it supposed to buzz and blink? I think I broke the hellgate.

I'm still "game," if you know what I mean.

But there's no way I can go again. This isn't college.

Wait -- what's this? An article from NPR! Let's see if they can "inspire" me!

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will ban transgender athletes from competing in women's events, based on the results of mandatory genetic screening.

MANDATORY GENETIC SCREENING! WHOOO, REFRACTORY PERIOD BE GONE! I'M FLYING LIKE AN ENGORGED HELLBAT AGAIN!

The topic of transgender participation in sports -- from school teams to the world stage -- has been a cultural flashpoint in recent years, though it's unclear how many transgender women currently compete at the Olympic level.

Ah, we went from "it's not happening" to "it's good that it's happening" and now back to "it's not happening" again. They were forced to retreat.

Every nerve in my body is ringing like a guitar string strummed by a Heavy Metal Godling.

Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard made history as the first openly transgender woman to do so in Tokyo in 2021, though no woman who transitioned after being assigned male at birth is known to have participated in an Olympics since.

Nevertheless, controversy ballooned in Paris 2024 when right-wing politicians and commentators called into question the sexes of two female boxers who had been previously disqualified from boxing world championships after failing eligibility tests. One of them was cleared for competition after approval last week, while the other -- who has repeatedly identified herself as a cisgender woman -- is challenging the World Boxing testing requirement in court.

I like how they refuse to say why this person would object to a genetic test. You can tell from implication, but they cannot bring themselves to write it out.

SING! SING TO ME OF YOUR BLESSED DAMNATION!

While the accusations were not proven true, they sparked a global debate over gender eligibility and prompted the IOC to begin the review that led to this policy. The IOC says the new rule is based on scientific evidence and "protects fairness, safety and integrity in the female category."

Um, what about the court that found the Iranian boxer was indeed a male? Just because you refuse to say it doesn't mean that it's not true.

But experts say the testing raises a multitude of concerns.

EXPERTS! EXPERTS! AH YES, WHAT I WAS MISSING WAS "EXPERTS!"

I'VE GOT THE LAMENT CONFIGURATION IN FUCKED-UP POSITIONS IT WAS NEVER DESIGNED FOR!

There are questions about the reliability and cost of the testing...

LOL, the most basic blood test in the world is unfair because of "costs."

This is like when they claim you can't tell someone's a dude without "reaching under her skirt and feeling her genitals." Um, yeah, except athletes have to routinely take blood tests to show they're not taking performance enhancing drugs. That blood can be tested cheaply for chromosomes as well.

Your anguish is intoxicating.

I just started a Tumblr account under the name "PIN-DADDY."

...as well as the interpretation and finality of its results.

We have to "interpret" the results of a test that has two possibilities: XX chromosomes or XY. There's so much line-drawing needed! It's like a Rorschach test -- you only see what you bring to it!

Critics of the policy say it invades the privacy of all women, and that it discriminates against intersex people whose reproductive or sexual anatomy do not fit binary definitions of male or female.

I JUST BECAME A 20th-LEVEL CENOBITE

I CAN NOW SUMMON HELLDRAGONS WITH A MAGIC WHISTLE

AND THAT WHISTLE IS THIS REPORTER'S SKULL

And even though the IOC says its policy does not apply to "grassroots or recreational" sports programs, some experts told NPR they fear it could affect more than just Olympic hopefuls.

"If a woman suspects that she might not pass this screening, she might be deterred from pursuing sport altogether," said Jaime Schultz, a sports historian and professor of kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University. "It doesn't just affect the people that are being tested, but it affects all women athletes."

Yeah but it mostly affects the male "women athletes," wouldn't you say? Not so much the female women athletes.

Whew! That was hot. That was sexual fire, baby.

Now I have to clean this puzzle box off and get it back to Pinhead before he realizes it's missing.

From last year. I guess the Olympics committee made some kind of preliminary ruling last year.

This Mannish Woman's dolor is turning me on again.

The uptalk and the assertion that "I'm right because I'm a 'journalist'" combined with the mini-bangs, Birth Control Glasses, and gigantic Canadian Mountie Chin is so perfect.

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