Female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, an eye-opening United Nations report has revealed.
The study — titled “Violence against women and girls in sports” — stated that more than 600 female athletes have been bested at various events by competitors who were born male.
“According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports,” the report said.
“The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males.”
The wide-ranging report, compiled by Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was presented to the UN General Assembly earlier this month.
The paper didn’t elaborate on at what sporting events the medals were won, or over what time frame.
To be fair, your antidotal evidence about your friends and family don’t actually reflect reality. This isn’t about “lesbians” feeling safe. Queer women still actually get a lot of pushback just for being gay. The lesbians that get LESS are the white and typically femme ones. The ones who aren’t white or have more muscle get called men. Even the straight ones do. Serena Williams. Illona Maher.
People don’t give a fuck about the WNBA. It’s majority black women who are in the league. They all get called men anyway, and then people will also turn around and bash it because it’s women’s sports.
We also don’t seem to make a big deal about trans men in sports. For some reason, it’s only women we care about. If women were weaker, how would the trans boxer Patricio Manuel defeat so many cis men? He’s a trans man, so shouldn’t be constantly be losing?
Why not have categories based off merit? Have specific metrics for a specific sports that actually don’t have to do with gender, but ability.
This whole “women are suffering” is just a tool to create trans panic. Women produce testosterone. Some more than some cis men out there.