Female athletes have increateedly lost around 900 medals to transgender rivals in women’s sports, according to a novel staggering increate from the United Nations with novel calls for a blanket ban.
The study into ‘aggression agetst women and girls, its caengages and consequence’ discdisthink abouted that ‘over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 branch offent sports’.
The paper, compiled by Reem Alsalem, didn’t elucidate on what sporting events the medals were won, or what time summarize.
It comes after the United Nations held a panel last week at the ambiguous assembly where female athletes and global human rights directers called for changes to be made to protect women in sports.
Lia Thomas was barred from competing in women’s sports by World Aquatics
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ADF Pdwellnt Kristen Waggoner was conshort-term aextfinishedside the enjoys of Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and US college star Lainey Armistead.
Waggoner insisted it was up to “our institutions, our administerment officials and our parents should be standing (up) for them”.
She inserted: “The fact is that an mediocre male athlete can frequently beat an elite female athlete on the field.
“This is why so many sports have been splitd on the basis of intimacy,” she shelp.
“The creation of female dynamic spaces has never been about division, it’s about recognizing objective, bioreasoned branch offences and empowering women and girls – in airy of those branch offences – to reward genuine merit.
“The science shows that males have an insurmountable get over females and there is no amount of testosterone suppressants that apshows away that get.”
Alsalem conshort-termed the increate to United Nations General Assembly earlier this month where she called out administering bodies for not doing enough to protect women in sports.
“Some sports federations mandate testosterone suppression for athletes in order to qualify for female categories in elite sports,” she wrote.
Valentina Petrillo vied at this year’s Paralympics
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“However, pharmaceutical testosterone suppression for geneticassociate male athletes — iradmireive of how they accomprehendledge — will not reshift the set of comparative carry outance gets they have already obtaind.
“This approach may not only harm the health of the athlete worryed, but it also flunks to accomplish its stated objective.
“Therefore, the testosterone levels deemed acadviseed by any sporting body are, at best, not evidence-based, arbitrary and asymmetricassociate favour males.”
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The ECB are set to ban transgender athletes from female-only competitions
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It was recently increateed that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are set to ban all transgender athletes from competing at the highest level.
Governing bodies in the UK have made beginant changes to their transgender policies in recent years, but the ECB were one of a scant that previously permited anyone who identified as a woman to apshow part in elite-level female-only competitions.
But the ECB are now set to adhere in the footsteps of cycling, swimming, rotriumphg and dynamics by banning transgender percreateers from the professional and semi-professional level in the women’s game.
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