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Olympics to change policies and allow transgender athletes to compete
Daily Mail Online ^ | January 22, 2016 | Kelly McLaughlin

Posted on 01/22/2016 8:38:06 PM PST by Teotwawki

The Olympics are reportedly adopting a new policy that opens the field of competition to transgender athletes.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: olympics; transgender
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To: doc1019
that's if for me and the Olympics.....when I watch a woman's sport, I want to see women, not men....

at least the doping scandal will be dealt with because all they have to do is claim their transgender and need to take their testosterone....

its all BS.....

21 posted on 01/22/2016 8:58:04 PM PST by cherry
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To: The Iceman Cometh

She’ll have to climb out of that space suit first.


22 posted on 01/22/2016 8:58:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (I shot Schroedinger's cat with Chekhov's gun.)
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To: Teotwawki

what an absolutely moronic world we’re living in now- Just like the UFC allowing a transgender male to fight women- He’s much stronger than they are, and yet apparently that doesn’t matter and the only thing that matters is that the UFC be ‘politically correct’

Now we’re gonna have men competing against women in the Olympics? Apparently these ‘men’ aren’t good enough to compete against other men, so they have to compete against women in certain sports where they will dominate?

They should be freakin ashamed of themselves- not just for being sick In the head, but for being sissies who can’t compete with their own gender to boot


23 posted on 01/22/2016 8:58:34 PM PST by Bob434
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To: cherry

So much for Women’s Beach Volleyball.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 8:59:38 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: arthurus

True. While I didn’t see the tournament in question, a woman who was/is a veteran fencer at my son’s fencing academy was a competitor against one of these men-who-are-pretending-to-be-women. She said the guy was 6’4”, and built like Joe Collosus. But he had long hair and fake boobs, so he competed against the real women, ALL of whom were nationally-ranked. The real gals didn’t stand a chance. He wiped the floor with them, won the tourney, and got a national rank his first time out.

This was...oh...5 or 6 years ago, and it caused quite the stir. But there was nothing the women could do because the national association had already decided to adopt the INTERNATIONAL rules, and they’d gone over to the tranny side.

I predict doom for women’s sports — especially the individual ones like fencing, swimming, etc. Maybe not gymnastics because the best gymnasts are small rather than large.

Regards,


25 posted on 01/22/2016 9:01:25 PM PST by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: Steely Tom
What are they going to compete as?

I give up, menwen?

26 posted on 01/22/2016 9:02:57 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: cherry

DNA should be the definitive answer to whether a competitor is male or female.


27 posted on 01/22/2016 9:04:39 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: Teotwawki

The death of xy sports.


28 posted on 01/22/2016 9:12:55 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Fred Nerks
Men now permitted to compete in Olympic events as women without the need to have their genitals removed?

Will the men have to wear those tiny , tight shorts the women wear ?

29 posted on 01/22/2016 9:39:20 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Teotwawki

Leave it to PC to ruin a millennia-old sporting tradition. This spells the end to the Olympics.


30 posted on 01/22/2016 9:41:47 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Teotwawki
Well, I know of one woman who is very happy about this.


31 posted on 01/22/2016 9:44:57 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Teotwawki

Against other trannies only would be the sensible solution.


32 posted on 01/22/2016 9:46:32 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Teotwawki

So won’t this pretty much destroy female athletics?
Oh well...


33 posted on 01/22/2016 9:52:26 PM PST by rhinohunter
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To: Teotwawki

34 posted on 01/22/2016 9:54:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Teotwawki
The Soviet satellites' "women's" teams were just a few years ahead of time.
35 posted on 01/22/2016 9:54:41 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: KarlInOhio

German shot put champion Heidi Krieger gets sex-change operation after being unwittingly doped with PEDs in 1970s

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/olypian-sex-change-docs-doped-peds-article-1.1349901


36 posted on 01/22/2016 9:58:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Teotwawki

Does this mean we will see Johnny Weir in both men’s and women’s figure skating?


37 posted on 01/22/2016 10:10:26 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: sphinx

Not fair either.


38 posted on 01/22/2016 10:56:43 PM PST by Rusty0604 (1)
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To: UCANSEE2

Either that or go naked like the original Olympians.


39 posted on 01/22/2016 10:58:44 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: sphinx

The end of women’s athletics.


40 posted on 01/22/2016 11:33:24 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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