The International Cricket Council has become the latest sports body to ban transgender players from the elite women’s game if they have gone through male puberty.
The ICC said it had taken the decision, following an extensive scientific review and nine-month consultation, to “protect the integrity of the international women’s game and the safety of players”.
It joins rugby union, swimming, cycling, athletics and rugby league, who have all gone down a similar path in recent years after citing concerns over fairness or safety.
The point i wanted to send across is that it gives athlete an advantage. So people will be incentivized to get it. And also those who do not get it will be at disadvantage. So if one form of chems advantage is allowed why others are not? Isn’t that exactly the source of the issue here, fairness?
How does it give athletes an advantage?
What do you mean? I explained it in the posts above. So shortly It’s basic biolgy. E.g. testosterone makes changes in the body.
If you have the same testosterone levels as everyone you are competing against it doesn’t give you an advantage.
Intersting so female taking testosterone and female not taking it have same level of testosterone. I guess trans people are taking hormones needlessly if that is the true.
What? I said trans men take testosterone so their hormone levels would be on the same level as any other men competing.
I read it but you ignore what i said that is, some people may be incentivized to get the treatment, they don’t need with aim to gain advantage. e.g. Female + testosterone in women sports or male identifying as women in women sports. In that sense it’s similar to doping.
Women already get their testosterone tested to compete in the women’s division in most sports and trans women don’t seem to have any real advantage over other women after hormones so it doesn’t seem to be an issue.
if there was no issue we would not be talking about the topic in the first place. It seems that multiple sports organizations after mixing trans people with females in women categories lead to issues, I somehow don’t believe that all of them figured it out of transphobia or something. Meaning there was issue in fairness.