Sprejeta je bila pomembna odločitev za ženski šport.
Predsednik mednarodne plavalne zveze (Fina), Husein Al Musallam, je sporočil, da bo s ponedeljkom prepovedan nastop moških, ki se identificirajo kot trans osebe, v ženski športni kategoriji.
Husain Al-Musallam, the Fina president, said: “We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women’s category at Fina competitions.
Fina’s vote drew plaudits from the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA), whose president Jon Rudd last month called for the women’s category to be preserved for biological females only.
The WSCA paper opined: “Competitive fairness cannot be reconciled with self-identification into the female category in a gender-affected sport such as swimming. The average differences in strength, stamina, and physique between the sexes is significant. Transgender females are, on average, likely to retain physical advantages listed above even if testosterone suppression is utilised.
Fina argued that fairness for women was just as important as inclusion. Experts in biology, exercise physiology and human development told delegates that male puberty granted hugely significant physical advantages in a sport such as swimming.
Among slides presented as evidence of the irreversible impact of male puberty and strengths retained even after any subsequent hormone replacement therapy, experts noted that in swimming by the age of 14, the best boys in the world are already racing faster than female World-record pace. The American 13-14 boys age group records in the 50, 100, 200m freestyle are all faster than the Women’s world record in those events, delegates were told.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d4af4e18-efeb-11ec-9bea-abc2bc5953e5?shareToken=7c787986e4c351ae1f407347c1d41856#
Treba je poudariti, da ta odločitev nikakor ni samoumevna, ampak je plod dolgoletnega boja ljudi, večinoma žensk, iz različnih področij, ki jim je končno uspelo prepričati športne funkcionarje, da so dali prednost stroki in znanstvenim argumentom pred politikantstvom in virtue signalingom.
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To sem pa bral par dni nazaj. Nažalost bo to promoviralo pubertyblockerje na otrocih.
Ne gre se za prepoved tekmovanja v elitnih ženskih ligah “moškim, ki se identificirajo kot trans”, ampak specifično ljudem, ki so šli skozi moško puberteto, tj. z vplivom testosterona. Seveda so meje tu velikokrat zamegljene, ampak gotovo ni anti-trans poteza in se mi zdi še kar smiselna v okviru danih kategorij.
Vsekakor tudi spodbuja uporabo blokerjev, me pa to ne moti, saj je edini trajen učinek tega prisoten, če ima oseba švoh ledvice. Itak po strokovnem mnenju endokrinologa vse deluje.
Vsakršna panika glede tega je odveč, odločitev pa tudi ni kaka zmaga za transfobijo. Oba ta pogleda sta preveč poenostavljena in konec koncev nesmiselna.
To je zgodovinski trenutek predvsem za pravice zensk, natancneje za njihovo enakopravno udelezenost v sportu.
About fucking time.
To je transfobija in to ni lepo