International Olympic Committee: ‘Transgenders’ will be allowed to compete

Sex and Sport in Transition – Brad Miner wonders why the International Olympic Committee will allow genetic (transgender) men to compete as women. Read Genesis 1:27, please!

This morning we’re in the afterglow of the Super Bowl, which in recent years has had worrisome elements of pagan spectacle. But there are still worse spectacles in sport – in this, the Silly Season in the progress of our species.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that “transgender” athletes will be allowed to compete in the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics in whatever sexual identity he/she chooses – with or without reassignment surgery. This means a male runner may enter any race for women, simply because he declares himself to be woman. (The IOC will test male-to-female athletes for testosterone levels – too high, and you’re out. And since those T-levels must have been observed for one year prior to the Games, we’ll be spared commentary by Bob Costas from Rio about what a glorious breakthrough for humanity the new rule represents.)

Women were first permitted to compete in the Olympic Games in 1900 at Paris – in tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrian, and golf. (The golf and the tennis were women-only events. Golf was dropped after 1904 and will finally return at this year’s Games.) By 1928 a fuller schedule of competitions for women began, culminating in the most recent Games (London 2012), the first in which both sexes competed in every event, although, obviously, segregated by sex: 100 meters for men, 100 meters for women, etc.

But when the Games return to Tokyo in 2020 – an eon in terms of cultural change – I promise you the athletes who were women at birth and have remained so will raise loud and justifiable protest about any “transgender” athlete whose T-levels happen to pass muster.

I don’t know what one has to do to drive down testosterone levels, so I asked a prominent physician, who told me that serum testosterone as low as the IOC has established for male-to-female transgender athletes makes it “very unlikely” that a more-or-less normal man could qualify.

Click here to read the rest of Mr. Miner’s new column . . .

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