British female track and field athletes are being forced to pay out of pocket for their own sex tests to prove they are not trans or intersex if they want to compete internationally.
Terfs protecting women athletes, or, something?
oh, did the transphobic hysteria end up hurting other women too? who could’ve expected this!
none of the folks who said exactly this would happen, that’s for sure
Genuine question, do they have to pay for their own drug testing?
Also they’re using cheek swab testing, is that even guaranteed to pick up xx/xy chimerism?
British female track and field athletes are being forced to pay out of pocket for their own sex tests to prove they are not trans or intersex if they want to compete internationally.
emphasis mine
also sink terf island
I think the question was whether they previously had to pay for [other] drug tests that presumably are standard practice
Also death to
Yes, that was my point.
If they have to pay “out of pocket” for existing tests it’s at-least consistent, if unsavoury.
Things you do when you don’t hate women
So they are like me then? I’m also forced to pay sex.
Wait, what?
No no, they are forced to test sex for a fee, so it’s just the tip.
Do the men have to pay too? Because a ftm gymnast could have advantages in the light and flexible events.
There is absolutely no evidence to support the claim that gender transition (in either direction) improves performance. There is ample evidence to support the claim that gender transition inhibits performance.
Incidentally, the Olympic Committee has had rules on transgender athletic participation 1968, ffs. The idea that this is some kind of novel threat to competitive sports is absurd. “Men are participating under a false gender” is an allegation that stretches back two years prior to 1966, after Western media began accusing Soviet athletes of faking gender certification (allegations that were never proven but have persistently circulated in competitions even to the modern day).
As often as not, the accusation of transgender athlete participation skewing the results of competitions has come from chronic underperformers and has been used by Western athletes to defame and discredit athletes from “enemy” nations and from the Global South.
Incidentally, one of the most outspoken anti-trans athletes - Riley Gaines - spent years accepting money from reactionary activist groups to denounce her transgender peers as a personal threat to her safety, while covering up sexual assault by her team’s coach for over a decade.
Men don’t even have to be tested, according to the article:
Male athletes need not complete a test in order to compete.
Ah yes, the old “no male cattegory, it’s just open” loophole!
Men don’t have to do this, but FTM athletes, or any other athletes who take testosterone for medical reasons, are normally barred from competitions as a result. Because we are already banned from most sports, we don’t need to be added into thes3 laws, but simply overturning explicit bans on trans people won’t allow us to compete either. What we really need is an overhaul of sports to make them based on things besides assumed sex.
So transmen don’t exist or something?
Specific trans sports bans aren’t particularly relevant for most trans men given that they’re already banned from a lot of sports under anti-doping eligibility criteria due to their use of testosterone.
Stop listening to stupid politicians attempting to manufacture a “problem”
Women face enough harassment and barriers to sport.
