{"id":1523659,"date":"2022-06-20T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523659"},"modified":"2022-06-20T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T12:49:47","slug":"swimming-governing-body-bans-men-who-have-experienced-puberty-from-competing-as-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimming-governing-body-bans-men-who-have-experienced-puberty-from-competing-as-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Governing Body Bans Men Who Have Experienced Puberty From Competing as Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswimming-governing-body-bans-men-who-have-experienced-puberty-from-competing-as-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fina.org\/\">FINA<\/a>, the federation that administers international water sports competitions, released new rules June 19 that ban men who identify as transgender from competing against women.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10932219\/Elite-swimming-rules-transgender-athletes-went-male-puberty-compete-races.html\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em>, the new FINA rules stipulate that a man who identifies as a transgender woman can only compete against biological women if they completed their transition before the age of 12, and then continually and consistently suppressed their testosterone. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>FINA noted that an &#8220;open category&#8221; will be set up for transgender athletes that don&#8217;t meet their criteria for women&#8217;s competition. A working group will determine over the next six months how these open divisions will be set up.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In the policy, which will go into effect on June 20, it states that &#8220;Without eligibility standards based on biological sex or sex-linked traits, we are very unlikely to see biological females in finals, on podiums, or in championship positions; and in sports and events involving collisions and projectiles, biological female athletes would be at greater risk of injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>FINA&#8217;s rules are in contrast to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/fifa-plans-to-drop-testosterone-measurement-for-biological-men-who-self-identify-as-women-in-soccer\">adopted a standard<\/a> of self-identification as the determining factor in who can and cannot compete in women&#8217;s sports. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The IOC self-identification standard was a departure from their 2020 rule that maintained transgender athlete needed a testosterone level below 10 nanomoles per liter for a year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Despite the IOC&#8217;s more relaxed approach to transgender athletes in sport, they left the it up to individual sports federations and groups to determine their own rules on transgender athletes.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>FINA created a task force to investigate the matter and concluded that biological women &#8220;cannot compete against anyone who went through male puberty who will have higher testosterone levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10932219\/Elite-swimming-rules-transgender-athletes-went-male-puberty-compete-races.html\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, FINA President Husain Al-Musallam said in a statement, &#8220;We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women&#8217;s category at FINA competitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The rules will affect transgender swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/confirmed-biological-male-swimmer-lia-thomas-does-have-unfair-advantage-over-women-competitors\">Lia Thomas<\/a>, a biological male who had been dominating women&#8217;s swimming and had recently expressed aspirations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/im-a-woman-lia-thomas-wants-to-compete-in-2024-olympics\">Olympics<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>FINA&#8217;s decision may prevent Thomas from landing at the Olympics as the transgender swimmer now cannot compete and rank in women&#8217;s competitions to determine Thomas&#8217; standing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINA, the federation that administers international water sports competitions, released new rules June 19 that ban men who identify as transgender from competing against women.According to the Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}