Category: Women’s Sports
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Policies of Sports Governing Bodies on Inclusion of Transgender Athletes
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by Sarah Kingsley OVERVIEW There is considerable disjunction in the attitudes of various organisations to the essential question of whether biological sex confers significant difference in performance between male and female athletes: and if there are such differences, whether hormone treatments are sufficient to create the required level playing field. At the beginning it was…
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Call on Minister to act on UN Special Rapporteur Report on Women’s Sport
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Women Speak Tasmania have called on the Minister for Sport to take action following UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem’s report on women’s sports. With consideration to Algerian professional boxer Imane Khelif Olympics boxing fiasco and numerous other cases of trans-identified males competing in women’s sports, Reem Alsalem has stated…
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on – Violence against women and girls in sports
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In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, explores the various forms, causes and consequences of violence against women and girls in sports. Reem Alsalem has stated ‘female athletes are more vulnerable to sustaining serious physical injuries when female-only sports spaces are opened to…
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Athletes not born female shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s sport, UN human rights expert says
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Only athletes who were female at birth should be allowed to compete in women’s sport, a United Nations-appointed human rights expert will tell the UN General Assembly next week. Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, told Sky News she hopes the recommendations will influence the policies of states and…
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She Won – A website celebrating the achievement of women in sports
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This website is dedicated to archiving the achievements of female athletes who were displaced by males in women’s sporting events and other types of competitions expressly for women. One day soon we hope their accomplishments will be formally recognized. Click the link below https://www.shewon.org
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Pseudoscience & the Olympic fiasco
Before the Sydney Olympics in 2000 athletes underwent genetic testing. A simple cheek swab would ensure everyone was competing in their respective male and female categories. Any issue with intersex athletes was dealt with on a case to case basis. This was done to ensure fairness and safeguarding of all athletes. Somehow the International Olympic…
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Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not gender
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Opinion piece by Doriane Lambelet Coleman Two dozen U.S. boys under 17 swim faster than Katie Ledecky in her best event. After an ugly controversy erupted at the Paris Olympics, the critical question in elite women’s sport still needs an answer: Who should get to participate in the female category? At the Games, two formerly…
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Push for Parliamentary Inquiry into sex self ID Laws following Olympics Fiasco
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In the last few days the world has been witness to the disastrous result that sex self ID laws have had on women’s sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has failed to protect female athletes by allowing men who identify as women, whether intersex or transgender, to compete against women. Dr Elizabeth Caballero Pastor said…
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Tasmanian International Women’s cyclist calls out trans inclusion in competition sport
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Hobart based International and National Women’s cycling competitor Jodie Willett last year resigned her membership of AusCycling over their policy of trans inclusion in women’s cycling competitions. Last year Jodie Willett wrote to AusCycling advising them that until such time as Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and AusCycling reversed their decision on trans inclusion in women’s…
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Disinformation not the answer to evidence
Dr Charlie Burton (November 13), in a detailed rebuttal to our article ‘Open and frank discussions only way forward regarding gender law reforms’ (November 6), failed to respond to the key facts we outlined concerning the biological differences between men and women as they pertain to competition sports. Dr Burton appears to have completely omitted…