Transgender Athletes: World Sports Organizations Reform Policies

Fairness for women athletes doesn’t consist in simply suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes. Male advantages over females persist, to say nothing of the insulting suggestion that male mediocrity is equivalent to female excellence. This ought to be obvious, but it has taken several high-profile cases of male athletes’ disrupting female competitions for sports-governing bodies to confront the absurdity of their policies.

In the United States, we had Lia Thomas, the mediocre male athlete who dominated the NCAA women’s swim championships in 2022. The NCAA’s cowardice denied justice to Thomas’s female competitors. Later that year, the International Swimming Federation voted to require males competing as females to have transitioned prior to the onset of puberty or age twelve.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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Fairness for women athletes doesn’t consist in simply suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes. Male advantages over females persist, to say nothing of the insulting suggestion that male mediocrity is equivalent to female excellence. This ought to be obvious, but it has taken several high-profile cases of male athletes’ disrupting female competitions for sports-governing bodies to confront the absurdity of their policies.

In the United States, we had Lia Thomas, the mediocre male athlete who dominated the NCAA women’s swim championships in 2022. The NCAA’s cowardice denied justice to Thomas’s female competitors. Later that year, the International Swimming Federation voted to require males competing as females to have transitioned prior to the onset of puberty or age twelve.