Report: IOC Ready to Ban “Trans Women” From Women’s Events 

It appears that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has finally stopped denying science.

The governing body of the much-anticipated summer and winter sports extravaganzas will, the U.K.’s Times reported, ban “trans women” from women’s events. The reason: Because “trans women” are really men, and science proves that men have an unfair advantage over women when competing in the same events.

At long last, the IOC has caught up with the rest of sane humanity. Or as Space X tycoon Elon Musk put it, the outfit made a “mind-blowing discovery.”

IOC Decision

The IOC will announce the ban “early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male,” The Times explained:

The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category.

The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into transgender athletes and competitors with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.

That earth-shaking discovery — heretofore unknown not only in the annals of human athletic endeavor, but also in endocrinology, reproductive biology, and hormone science — was that “scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.”

Indeed, the presentation was “very scientific, factual, and unemotional.” As well, the “feedback” from IOC members was “positive.”

The Times worked U.S. President Donald Trump into the story, suggesting that the IOC feared the wrath of POTUS 47.

The ban might be announced “around the IOC session at the Milan-Cortina winter Olympics in early February,” the newspaper continued, and will take effect before the games in Los Angeles in 2028:

The ban is expected to come into force before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. That would avoid any clash with the US president, Donald Trump, who has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories. Trump has claimed it would mean the US would deny visas for transgender athletes trying to compete in LA.

The policy will cover DSD athletes, “those who were raised as girls from birth but have male chromosomes and male levels of testosterone,” the newspaper explained. DSD means “differences in sex development.”

Oliver Brown, The Telegraph’s head sportswriter, explained that the decision is 10 years too late, and made only after the IOC permitted two men to compete as women in boxing. Not surprisingly, they beat the women to a pulp.

“Forget the framing of a ‘transgender ban,’” he wrote:

This is a ban on permitting male advantage in potentially lethal sports such as boxing, where men punch, on average, 2.6 per cent times harder than women. In what Orwellian universe can a ban in these circumstances be deemed controversial? …

On the one hand, there is relief we no longer have to endure such spectacles as Italy’s Angela Carini being beaten into submission in 46 seconds by an opponent who had failed sex tests, or Nauru’s Roviel Detenamo finding her Olympic weightlifting dream dashed by a biological male 25 years her senior. But on the other, there is fury at the human cost that the IOC’s delay has incurred — for the women denied Olympic medals, for the athletes deprived of a right to fairness and even basic safety, and for the dissenting academics hounded almost into oblivion.

If Brown is right, The Times’ headline “Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events” is wrong. It should read: “Men to be banned from all female Olympic events.”

Trump’s Move

Trump did, indeed, likely move the IOC to institute the ban.

In February, Trump issued an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” In it he required the secretary of state

to see that the International Olympic Committee amends the standards governing Olympic sporting events to promote fairness, safety, and the best interests of female athletes by ensuring that eligibility for participation in women’s sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction.

Speaking to a crowd in connection with the order, Trump said that “trans women” will not compete in women’s events at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

“My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes,” Trump warned:

And we’re just not going to let it happen, and it’s going to end, and it’s ending right now, and nobody is going to be able to do a damn thing about it, because when I speak, we speak with authority.

(As an aside, we must point out that interference in sports is not a proper function of the federal government.)

Not a New Phenomenon

Men who pretend to be women have been dominating women’s sports for some time, and not just by beating their brains out in Olympic boxing.

As The New American reported last year, nearly two dozen players quit a women’s soccer team after an opponent that fielded five men dominated a national championship. The Flying Bats Football Club manhandled the Macquarie Dragons 4-0 to win the coveted Beryl Ackroyd Cup. The women were terrified to play against a muscled squad of bruisers.

Yet men are also dominating the women in women’s swimming, cycling, weightlifting, and track and field.

But the prospects for women to compete fairly are improving. The University of Pennsylvania revoked “trans woman” Lia Thomas’ swimming records. In July, the Justice Department sued California for permitting boys to play girls sports.

The far-left media is still pushing the “trans” agenda, however. In October, Glamour UK named five men “women of the year.”