Women across the globe have lost nearly 900 sports medals due to policies allowing biological males to compete against them, according to a new U.N. report from Reem Alsalem titled “Violence against women and girls in sports.”
“According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports,” said Alsalem.
“Male athletes have specific attributes considered advantageous in certain sports, such as strength and testosterone levels which are higher than the average range for females even before puberty, thereby resulting in the loss of fair opportunity,” he continued.
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Alsalem, the U.N.’s Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, detailed the significant damage done to women’s sports by nations allowing transgender-identifying males to compete against them.
Some nations and sports organizations try to mitigate the natural advantage biological males have in sports by requiring them to have lowered testosterone levels before they are allowed to compete against women.
Alsalem’s report explains that these requirements physically harm the biologically male athletes by making them suppress their natural bodily processes, and do little to remove the natural advantage that biologically male athletes have over women.
“Pharmaceutical testosterone suppression for genetically male athletes – and irrespective of how they identify – will not eliminate the set of comparative performance advantage they have already acquired,” said Alsalem.
“Testosterone levels deemed acceptable by any sporting body are at best not evidence-based, arbitrary, and asymmetrically favor males,” he continued.
Alsalem advised that the only real way to ensure fairness in women’s sports, and to ensure that women do not lose their opportunities to win in their own competitions, is to prevent biological males from competing against them regardless of their self-identification.
“To avoid the loss of a fair opportunity, males must not compete in the female categories of sport,” said Alsalem.
Allowing biological males in women’s sports poses a risk to more than just the women’s opportunity for athletic success.
Alsalem found that women forced to compete against biological males face an increased risk of physical harm.
“Female athletes are also be more vulnerable to sustaining serious physical injuries
when female-only sports spaces are opened to males,” said Alsalem.
He pointed to serious injuries in volleyball, basketball, and soccer, citing instances of broken bones, concussions, knocked-out teeth, skull fractures, and brain damage.
He also highlighted dangerous instances where adult biological males competed alongside underage girls.
Allowing males to compete based on self-identification has led to controversy across the U.S. and in Maine.
A biological male took first place at a high-school girls’ track competition in Standish last week, with a time that would have put him in 41st place among males, but rocketed to victory among the girls.
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Don’t expect the UN to make any smart decisions, they’re just as corrupt as the democrats. I’m sure they’ll clarify their statement once soros gets done with them.
You can’t have a swimming competition if one team doesn’t swim . Why do the girls / women put up with this ? They should ( entire team ) sit on the bench and not compete . See what the Maine Principles Assn says about “ that “ .
Think of the money the schools could save ….NO COACH SALARIES need to be paid if nobody on the team participates . The game can’t be a game without players . All they have to say is : “ If this GUY who says he’s a girl swims ..
WE DON’T “ ….
Until parents say enough is enough and prohibit their daughters from competing against biological boys it is never going to change. The Maine school leadership, the NEA and MTA demand schools allow boys to play school sports regardless of the risk to the girls and the physical advantage the boys possess. They’re so afraid of the political backlash. Despite all the examples in the news about girls being grossly injured playing against males let me remind you of 3 examples where the males dominated the females. The US woman’s soccer team played against a boys U14 team and the boys destroyed them. For those involved in youth soccer “U” stands for under. The so-called “hate America lesbo” superstars lost to a bunch of 13 year old the boys. They also played a game against a male team in the lower depths of the English soccer league and got destroyed handily. The truth it was a bunch of 40 something men. Let us not forget the $1.0m bet offered by Clay Travis to the Las Vegas Aces to play the best high school team in the country. They declined. Good choice. They know they’d lose by an embarrassing amount. Is it going to take a girl to die in a sports related event to catch someone’s attention.
If the school kids themselves said “ WE ARENT PLAYING WITH YOU “ it would stop .
let’s get the one thing straight. They are not men nor are the women or female, male maybe but not MEN. In the 60’s my uncle called hippies she-its. That would apply nicely. These girls need to stand up for themselves, none of the “adults in the room” are going to. Don’t compete or compete and physically stomping the living dog snot out of the out of the sheit. I have to admit though to a wee bit of I don’t give a flying rats tail. For decades we have been forced to hear, and you better agree, that women and do anything a man can do and just as good. All the while demanding that standards be lowered. Sadly, it is the girls of today that have to pay for their mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmother B.S.
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Let the transgender folk have their own sports leagues.