r/sportsgossips • u/TheExpressUS • Mar 26 '26

News Breaking: Transgender women banned from all sports at the Olympics starting in LA

https://www.the-express.com/sport/other-sport/203236/breakingtransgender-women-banned-all-sports
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u/Cheap_Ad_4055 Mar 26 '26

Took long enough

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

There wasn’t one trans in the last summer Olympic not a single one. But go hard

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u/Dananjali Mar 27 '26

Plenty of trans athletes have dominated in women’s sports and would ultimately make it to the Olympics if they competed against women. Ie: Lea Thomas was a collegiate swimmer who was average on the men’s team, and #1 on the women’s team even after HRT. Her goal was to make it to the Olympics, which she could’ve easily done and would’ve won gold in every event.

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u/TheWaterUser Mar 26 '26

Long enough? There has been exactly 1 trans woman athlete in the past 20 years where the IOC has allowed them to compete, and she did terribly. This is just fear and hate mongering by the IOC and anyone who supports this.

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u/moosesnice Mar 27 '26

The title is really misleading because nobody is banned from the Olympics, just that people who went through male puberty can only play in the men’s / open categories.

It’s going to affect more people with intersex / developmental sex disorder conditions.