Transgender cyclist Austin Killips swipes at 'cabal of right wingers' after cycling officials change policy
FOX NewsAug 02, 2023
The Facts
World Aquatics, the global governing body for swimming, announced on Tuesday that they will set up an “open category” that will include transgender competitors.
World Aquatics president Husain Al-Musallam announced that a trial run for an “open category” would include transgender competitors for future competitions, but did not provide a timetable on when it would be implemented.
The Spin
Right narrative
Although transgender women may identify as women, that doesn't negate the fact that they have real physical advantages from going through male puberty. Allowing performance-advantaged transgender women to compete at the expense of cisgender women would violate the core reason that separate women’s competitions exist. Having a third category open for transgender athletes to compete in preserves the fairness of women's sports while still allowing these athletes to compete.
Left narrative
Excluding women who are transgender harms all women and invites harmful gender policing. A person’s genetics and reproductive anatomy are not useful indicators of athletic performance, so there's no inherent reason why the physiological characteristics related to the athletic performance of a transgender woman should be treated any differently from the physiological characteristics of a non-transgender woman. Transgender women should be able to compete in women's sports.
