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2026-03-27 16:44 UTC
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@jasmine@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-27 17:06
the guardian still lets bigots have the last word, but the article isn't fully on their side. for example: “The best available data … shows that transgender women receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy are not meaningfully different from cisgender women in key performance-related measures such as muscle mass, strength, body composition, or cardiorespiratory fitness, and in many aspects have a disadvantage. “This represents a return to practices that were abandoned decades ago for good reason.” “Worse, it creates a culture where someone like a coach, an official, or even another parent, feels entitled to question whether your daughter ‘looks female enough’ to belong. That is not protecting women’s sport. That is policing girls’ bodies. And once sport starts deciding which women are ‘acceptable’, no woman or girl is truly safe. “The IOC’s new guidelines will be unlawful in Australia. Mandatory sex testing and blanket bans directly conflict with the Sex Discrimination Act, our sporting National Integrity Framework, and our safeguarding obligations to children.