One Step Backward

We have been making headway in sports but we are now going to forced backward by the IOC, they are going to be revising the rules for trans athletes.

IOC EXPECTED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR TRANSGENDER FEMALES TO COMPETE
Volley Mob

According to British newspaper The Times, the IOC is expected to issue new guidelines halving the permitted level of testosterone allowed in female athletes eligible for women’s sporting events.

The revised guidelines comes only a few months after two transgender athletes made headlines by dominating their respective sport disciplines. The first was Laurel Hubbard, a weightlifter from New Zealand. An accomplished domestic lifter as a male, she drew the ire of fellow female competitors after winning silver at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. Most recently, she qualified for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, but an elbow injury during the competition forced her withdrawal from the event while leading the field.

The second, and perhaps most notorious case due to volleyball’s status as a mainstream international sport, is Brazilian Tifanny Abreu. She made volleyball history when she became the first trans female to play in Brazil’s Superliga. Since then, she broke the competition’s single game scoring record, and has dominated the league’s offensive statistics. Such performances drew the ire of many teams, players, and fans, who asked the Brazilian Volleyball Federation (CBV) to find a “solution” to the situation. Her performance led many to believe that she would be called up to Brazil’s NT, but a request from the FIVB and CBV prevented coach José Roberto Guimarães to do so.

In the past you needed to be on hormones for two years but that was changed to one year a couple of years ago, my guess is that they are going to change it back to two years but I doubt that they will require surgery. I don’t base that on anything in particular just that if they did roll back to requiring surgery it would create a nightmare with all the previous wins by trans people.