The new rule was passed with a 72% majority of a 152 members representing different nations.
Reuters explained the ruling: ‘FINA’s decision, the strictest by any Olympic sports body, was made during its extraordinary general congress after members heard a report from a transgender task force comprising leading medical, legal and sports figures.’
‘The new eligibility policy for FINA competitions states that male-to-female transgender athletes are eligible to compete only if “they can establish to FINA’s comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 (of puberty) or before age 12, whichever is later,”‘ Reuters added.
We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women’s category at FINA competitions.
FINA will always welcome every athlete. The creation of an open category will mean that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so FINA will need to lead the way. I want all athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process.
FINA President Husain Al-Musallam said
FINA’s new rules establishes new eligibility to those who have “complete androgen insensitivity and therefore could not experience male puberty”. Moreover, competitors who have had “male puberty suppressed beginning at Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later, and they have since continuously maintained their testosterone levels in serum (or plasma) below 2.5 nmol/L,” can also compete in women’s events.
However, women who identify as men can compete with the men in their divisions.
Some have praised the move:
I can’t tell you how proud I am of my sport, FINA and the FINA president for doing the science, asking the athletes/coaches and standing up for fair sport for females. Swimming will always welcome everyone no matter how you identify but fairness is the cornerstone of sport.
Sharron Davies, an Olympic silver medalist in 1980.
LGTBQIA+ athletic advocacy group Athlete Ally jeered at the move:
FINA’s new eligibility criteria for transgender athletes and athletes with intersex variations is discriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles. If we truly want to protect women’s sports, we must include all women.
The WinePress noted in our coverage of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas officially winning the NCAA college national championship, that late last year the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a move that, according to some critics, was even worse than what was already in place. The IOC essentially ruled that a man identifying as a woman has to do is suppress their testosterone to a certain level, and that’s it.
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While I am sure this move will create a lot more controversy in the media, sports, and society as a whole; the root of the problem still exists. Instead of kicking them out from all competitions, FINA is still leaving the backdoor open a bit for the problem to only fester: that is the nature of sin.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs 10:23
And while sports competitions have lost my interest year-over-year since getting saved, I also recognize that these moves in these fields still paint a picture of what is going on in the nations. This move will set a new precedent for other sports to be emboldened to do the same, while others will double-down even further on their wickedness.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Demoralization
Destabilization
Crisis
Normalization
These four steps are what lead to communism taking over-and this transgender and LGBTQ sodomy is only part of it.
AMEN
The highest up & deepest in male sodomite elite driving this….but God is not mocked. Did you notice how they psy-oped apathetic Christians by steering them to NOT take a stand against the whole perversity & Hell-bound state of all given over to this sin, but to choose between two pro-transgender dialectic lies? On Fox, Thigh & Cleavage Shriekfest, crafted ‘news’, no less (because fornication sells, & as though God winks at either heterosexual or sodomite fornication…let alone the defiling & demoralization of children).
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Luke 13:31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. :32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. Lu 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Lu 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Lu 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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I actually saw a person trying to justify ‘dynamic equivalence’ use the argument that because Papua New Guinean tribesmen sniggered at the ‘fox’ translation because they used the furtive, mincing manners of a fox as a picture of the effeminate….which Herod likely WAS, given the Antipas, Bernice history, & the Greco-Roman Alexandrian-Babylonian Eastern influence upon the elites of Jerusalem…..it was better to use a different word. So arrogant & condescending! Those simple tribesmen were actually closer to truth than those nicolaitan leading them into sophistry in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. So Romish.