Olympics Set to Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports
The International Olympic Committee finally moved to protect women’s sports with a new policy that will prohibit males from competing in women’s events in the Olympic Games.
The Times of London first reported the news, following an IOC meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
“The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.”
The Times, of course, is mistaken in its terminology.
There are no “transgender women,” only sexually-confused males who use drugs, hormones and surgeries in a misguided attempt to appear like women.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry led the charge to safeguard Olympic female athletes, announcing after her election in March 2025 “that a task force of scientists and international federations would be set up within weeks to come up with a new [transgender and intersex] policy,” The Guardian reported.
Coventry explained that new scientifically-based IOC guidelines are needed to protect women’s sports.
“It was very clear from the members that we have to protect the female category, first and foremost. We have to do that to ensure fairness. And we have to do it with a scientific approach.”
Last week, task force member Dr. Jane Thornton, IOC health, medicine and science department director, gave an initial report to IOC members about male athlete’s physical advantages.
“Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels,” as the Times reported.
The IOC first adopted guidelines paving the way for men to compete in women’s sports in 2015.
That guidance, from the “IOC Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism,” stated that a man must have declared his identity as a woman for at least four years and demonstrate testosterone levels below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months before their first competition.
But simply lowering testosterone doesn’t transform a man into a woman, and lower testosterone doesn’t change male advantages in sports: greater lung capacity and heart size; larger, heavier bones and muscles; and different hip and leg structures.
New guidelines, released in 2021, passed the buck to international governing bodies that oversee various sports, allowing them to set their own policies on “transgender” athletes.
This led to the debacle in the 2024 Paris Olympics where two males, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting won gold medals in women’s boxing. Both were born with rare disorders of sexual development that made them appear female at birth.
But Khelif and Yu-Ting have XY chromosomes that triggered male puberty, giving them distinct physical advantages over the women they pummeled.
Despite lies from transgender activists and their allies, everyone knows that males and females are physiologically different, with testosterone giving males competitive advantages in sports.
Men’s bodies are different from women’s. This means that men, in general, can out-compete women. That’s why we’ve always had separate sports categories for men and women.
Even if a man believes he’s a woman, he competes in sports with his male body. Women have been injured by men playing their sport, and men who do so steal opportunities, titles, records and victories from women.
The Daily Citizen is glad that the IOC is finally choosing reality over propaganda and false ideology and is moving to protect women’s sports.
It’s about time.
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