(What complies with is commentary from the Women’s sports policy working Group, which is comprised of Olympic gold medalist swimmer Donna de Varona, former President, Women’s sports Foundation, USOPC Board of Directors; worldwide Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova, 18-time grand slam singles champion, 31 grand slam doubles titles as well as 10 grand slam mixed doubles titles; Olympic gold medalist swimmer NancyHogshead-Makar, J.D., CEO of champion Women, former President, Women’s sports Foundation; Donna Lopiano, Ph.D., former CEO, Women’s sports Foundation, President, The Drake Group, national Softball Hall of Fame; Tracy Sundlun, Founding Board member, national Scholastic Athletics Foundation, six-time Olympic coach as well as manager, Running USA Hall of Champions; as well as Doriane Coleman, J.D., professor of legislation as well as Co-Director of the center for sports legislation & policy at fight it out legislation School, U.S. collegiate national champion as well as two-time Swiss national champion in the 800 meters.)
Kudos to the NCAA. We applaud the NCAA’s decision to continue their long-standing support for
transgender inclusive policies – completely consistent with our WSPWG suggestions – that require
trans women to have mitigated their sex-linked performance advantages before they contend in
women’s sports. Further, we commend the NCAA leadership’s policy to hold NCAA championships
only in specifies safe, healthy as well as free of transgender discrimination.
WSPWG Expresses strong concern Over specify regulations as well as Toxic Debate. Unfortunately,
state legislatures are lawmaking at the extremes: either no transgender women enabled in women’s
sports or all transgender women are allowed, without regard to whether some have a testosterone
advantage that precludes fair competition against biological females. These expenses are ignoring
science as well as the Camiseta Schalke 04 noise transgender athlete involvement policies of the NCAA, the International
Olympic committee as well as the U.S. Olympic as well as Paralympic Committee.
The debate at this intersection of science, women’s sport as well as social justice is full of easily
disproved falsehoods such as:
• “testosterone is not performance enhancing” or
• “males don’t have an advantage in sports,” or
• “male as well as Camiseta Kashima Antlers female testosterone levels overlap,” or
• “if transgender women who have not mitigated their testosterone advantage are separately
scored in sports contests, they will dedicate suicide” or
• “it is impossible to mitigate the male sex-linked sports advantage.”In addition, we reveal dismay at the twitter boycotts, attempts at censorship as well as inaccurate
allegations – ‘cancel culture’ at its worst – that are being directed against those who do not support
either of these extreme positions. Such personal attacks are meant to intimidate as well as silence
opposing views by putting pressure on sponsors as well as employers to be complicit in discouraging
voices seeking solutions. Such attacks produce a toxic atmosphere which avoids the respectful and
honest conversation needed to address this issue.
WSPWG Releases A design specify Statute. We believe the conversation as well as specify regulations must
move to exactly how we structure women’s sports to ensure fair competition for all women as well as women under
the women’s sports umbrella – those with as well as without testosterone advantage – while producing an
affirming as well as welcoming location for both – a respectful sports atmosphere that acknowledges and
celebrates human differences. We understand there are simple solutions like separate scoring as well as other
ways to change the structure of women’s sports for trans women as well as women who do not desire to
change their bodies. We believe that those who select to sufficiently mitigate their testosterone
levels should contend with as well as against biological females, whether they determine as male or female,
fluid or non-binary. We desire specifies to think about the Camiseta Selección de fútbol de España connected design specify statute that affirms the
appropriateness as well as legality of separate-sex competitive sport teams while including all trans girls
and trans women within girls’ as well as women’s sports.
WSPWG stays Optimistic. We acknowledge recent reporting as well as opinions (see Mahnken,
Zeigler, Whitley, Coleman/Eastwood/Navratilova) that suggest that there is a middle ground being
thoughtfully explored, a path ahead to the inclusion of all transgender women as well as women in
women’s sports.
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