Transgender athletes banned from elite international track and field events l GMA

The World Athletics Council, the international governing body over track and field, announced a ban that prevents transgender athletes from participating in female events after going through male puberty.

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[scottlalexander]

Finally some actual sanity and common sense reasoning from a governing sports body! 👍

[jamesmarkham]

This needs to be a rule in every high school league, and college as well.

[VinnyDoesLife]

The fact that this is even a discussion is mind-blowing.

[grantmillard]

Great to hear this. Let women compete against women. Not against men who were unable to succeed as athletes until they 'declared' themselves to no longer be men.

[Benhi]

“The protection of the female category” so well said, thank you❤

[BFF]

As a woman, it just killing me when they are referred as a “woman”. This is just disrespecting the real women to the highest!!!!

[thedreadedshad]

We live in a world where people make a sensible decision and the crazy people are crying about it

[adriand]

Well done. It's fair for women athletes.👏

[aioncrypto]

95% of people agree with this ruling and want to see it in Highschool also

[fireman]

It should be pointed out that athletes like Castor Semenya is not transgender. She naturally has a XXY chromosome with female genitalia. There are other athletes like her such as Mbomba who naturally have high testosterone. They are different from athletes like Lia Thomas who transitioned after puberty through drugs and surgery.

[JosieCote]

I’m soooo happy about this. A good step in the right direction to protect the integrity of women’s sports 🙏🏼

[Nicole-ueln]

Well it's about time!! How is this even a discussion in the first place?!

[samuelhart]

As a man. Thank you for protecting female sports. I want to see more phenomenal competition and athletes emerge .

[lemon]

Great news for women's right to fair play! Biology matters, especially in sports because we compete with our body, not our identity. Thank you World Athletics for protecting women's rights!

[nssteampunk]

They deserved to be removed. Time to put common sense back into our sports.

[rosiealcantara]

At last someone is standing for our female athletes! Bravo!!!

[Alezey]

So glad this is happening. People are coming back to their senses 👏👏👏

[kialuvsyoo]

It's not about your identity, but your physicality, which is not a social construct! You can't "decide" to be weaker and smaller!

[rinjinnoko]

Bless all the biological women, especially female athletes of the world 🙏 May your endeavors eventually bloom beautifully.

[carolynslover]

❤ BRAVO!!! Should have happened a long time ago. Bring back some sanity and decency to society.