They Never Give Up.

We always must be vigilant because the anti-trans never give up, they are always trying to over turn our gains. The Republicans use any excuse to go after us.

IOC transgender framework goes against science, says academic paper
Reuters
March 22, 2024

 A group of 26 academics have challenged the International Olympic Committee's framework on the inclusion of transgender athletes in sport, saying it does not protect fairness for women nor align with scientific or medical evidence.

The paper published this week in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, said decisions on eligibility for female competition must consider male development rather than testosterone levels.

The IOC Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations is a document produced to guide international sports federations when establishing their own rules.

"We point you towards the 'Position statement: IOC framework on fairness, inclusion and non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations' published within the British Journal of Sports Medicine," an IOC spokesperson said.

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"Studies show that transgender women ... with suppressed testosterone retain muscle mass, strength, and other physical advantages compared to females; male performance advantage cannot be eliminated with testosterone suppression," it said.

"Failing to acknowledge male category-level advantage or arguing it is simply a 'presumption' undermines the purpose of segregated sex categories in sports …"

I heard the exact opposite and my personal experience was that I lost muscle mass after I was on hormones for a year or more.

The academics, who include sports scientists and biologists from around the world, also called for women to be recognised as key stakeholders in the decision-making process on inclusion in sport.
The IOC framework mentions only consultations with athletes directly impacted.

"The IOC must consider the rights and opinions of all stakeholders, explicitly including female athletes as primary stakeholders," the paper said.

Okay but who picks them? Will the right-wing conservatives pack the stakeholders with their choices?

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 Fox News wrote about an injury an athlete received,

We’ve seen how dangerous it is for men to compete against women, and we’re standing for fair competition
Radical left seeks to normalize men winning against females, erasing women's sports for generations to come
By Greg Steube , Lainey Armistead
March 22, 2024

"Women’s sports is strictly for women and girls." If we had said that to anyone in 1972 when Title IX was signed into the Civil Rights Act, we might have met blank stares for stating the obvious; we might as well have said, "The sky is blue."

But 52 years later, that statement is seen as controversial. Women’s sports now need more legislative action and legal protection, because even the laws and federal rules in place to protect women’s sports face fierce opposition and radical misinterpretations.

[…]

As a soccer player, Lainey Armistead is familiar with the physical and competitive differences when a man steps onto the field. She grew up playing pick-up games against her brothers and other boys, and recognized they are generally faster, stronger and bigger than girls. Soccer can be a high-contact sport, and she has seen her teammates suffer concussions as well torn ACL and ankle injuries.

As a team captain on the West Virginia State University soccer team, she saw men competing in other women’s sports and knew she had to stand up for her teammates and girls competing in sports everywhere by joining a lawsuit to protect the state’s women’s sports law, which was upheld by a federal district court last year.

Yeah, but her brother and other boys are not on hormones! We are not the "Radical left" that is a Trumpism, we just want the same things as everyone else. Notice how the oppressors always blame the oppressed when they rise up against the injustice.

Every time a player gets injured by a trans player they say, “see, see, we told you” but the thousands of injuries made by women athletes gets ignored.

To fan the flames and get votes,

The Republican House already passed Rep. Steube’s legislation, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 to protect female athletes like Lainey from a radical ideology, pushed by the Biden administration, that would upend all the progress that Title IX has ensured for all these years. The Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act is the next important step needed to keep women’s sports as fair and as safe as possible.

They are using us as a wedge issue to get votes, instead of making sports safe for everyone they pick out us to blame.

In another Fox article,

Payton McNabb, a former North Carolina high-school volleyball player who suffers from long-term physical and mental injuries caused by a biological male who identifies as transgender during a match in 2022, called out Democrat lawmakers on X for denying the harm that trans women cause in sports.

But… How many injuries are there that doesn’t involve a trans person?
In the The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery they have an article, “Volleyball-related Adult Maxillofacial Trauma Injuries: A NEISS Database Study” which states:

Introduction: Craniofacial trauma among athletes of various sports has been well detailed and described. Despite this research, there is a dearth of literature describing the nature of facial trauma secondary to volleyball, despite its global popularity.

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Results: A total of 235 volleyball-related facial traumas were recorded with an estimated 10,424 visits occurring nationally…

Did you get that? 235 volleyball-related facial traumas!!!! However just one of those 235 injuries is creating a firestorm!
Then on the website Active Kids MD an article reports,

Six Common Volleyball Injuries- and How to Prevent Them!

1) Concussions
Most of the concussions I encounter are seen in liberos or defensive specialists. They usually occur from direct ball to head impact or collisions with other players or objects (poles, chairs on courtside) when diving for a ball. I have also seen a fair amount of concussions resulting from mismatches on the court, namely defensive players trying to return serves or hits from much stronger and older players.

Any new sign of concern (such as dizziness, headache, blurred vision) or behavior change after head trauma should mandate removing the player from all activity. A player should not return until evaluated and cleared by a sports medicine specialist who is familiar with concussion care.

Prevention tips for the volleyball player include:

• calling for balls before starting a dive or passing
• ensuring defensive players are aware of incoming balls during hitting/serving drills
• reducing the number of free balls in air at one time during hitting/serving drills
• limiting older and stronger players from hitting into younger players
• protecting the boundaries of the court to limit impact with chairs or other objects.

It seems to me that injuries are common in sports between all players, why don’t they work toward injuries? Instead of attacking us over common injuries and riling them up against us!