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International Olympic Committee Votes To Allow Transgender Athletes To Compete
The Olympics are reportedly adopting a new policy that opens the field of competition to transgender athletes.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Well, you can add the Olympic Games to the list of stuff I really don’t feel like watching anymore. The amount of spiritual confusion that has covered this world is astounding, and absolutely a sign of the end times in which we live. Keep in mind that the New World Order is conditioning children as young as the age of 6 to “explore their gender identity” so that they can “identify” with the gender they feel best suits them.
The International Olympic Committee received proposed guidelines in November from its ‘Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism’, which allow for broader policies that would include transgender athletes.
Olympic officials have not confirmed the new guidelines, which have already been adopted by other regulatory sports organizations, but the policy is available on the organization’s website.
The policy change would be in line with NCAA standards in the United States, which allow male-to-female and female-to-male transgender athletes to compete without having gender reassignment surgery, according to ESPN.
Sports in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of Transgender Athletes
Watch the official video of the Transgender Rights Movement, bet’cha didn’t know it was a “right”, did ya?
The current Olympic rules acknowledge transgender athletes’ right to compete, but with specific provisions under the Stockholm Consensus, which was adopted in 2004.
The policies, adopted before the Athens Olympics, say transgender athletes have to have gender reassignment surgery and have legal recognition of the gender they were assigned at birth. They also have to have undergone at least two years of hormone replacement therapy after surgery.
The proposed new rules would allow transgender athletes to compete after one year of hormone replacement therapy and no surgery is required.
Joanna Harper, chief medical physicist, radiation oncology at Providence Portland Medical Center, was one of the people at the Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism. She is also trans, and said her voice was important in determining the new guidlines.
‘The new IOC transgender guidelines fix almost all of the deficiencies with the old rules,’ Harper said wrote in an email to OutSports. ‘Hopefully, organizations such as the ITA will quickly adapt to the new IOC guidelines and all of the outdated trans policies will get replaced soon.’
‘The waiting period for trans women goes from two years after surgery to one year after the start of HRT,’ Harper added. ‘This matches up with the NCAA rules and is as good as anything. The waiting period was perhaps the most contentious item among our group and one year is a reasonable compromise.’
The proposal might open doors for transgender athletes like Chris Mosier, who last year qualified for the US Sprint Duathlon team, competing against men. source
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