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Megan Rapinoe, a retired star from Team USA’s soccer lineup, is voicing strong criticism against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following its decision to prohibit individuals identifying as women from participating in women’s Olympic events.
Rapinoe is particularly dismissive of the IOC’s assertion that it relied on scientific research indicating significant physical differences between male and female bodies, which it cited as the basis for ensuring fairness in women’s sports.
She argues that there is no scientific consensus supporting such claims and maintains that individuals who have transitioned from male to female share the same physical characteristics as their female counterparts.
In a decision announced last month, the IOC declared that participation in female category events at the Olympic Games, or any other IOC-sanctioned event, is now restricted to biological females. This determination is based on a one-time screening of the SRY gene, according to a report by Fox News.
The IOC emphasized that its policy is grounded in “evidence-based” research and has been evaluated by “experts” in the field.
But radical, LGBTQ+ activist Rapinoe objects.
“Unfortunately, we have to say that all in the same breath as a really horrible rule came out from the International Olympic Committee,” Rapinoe exclaimed. “They announced a new policy that they’re calling, I can’t even believe that they’re calling it this because it has nothing to do with protecting women, I feel like two people, who played at the very highest level for every competition that you possibly could, don’t agree with this and never felt like this was an issue at all, ‘The Protection of the Female [Women’s] Category.’”
She disputed the IOC’s evidence and also accused the sports authority of initiating “invasive testing” for transgender individuals and women alike.
“We already know that biology, as much as we want it to be just nice and clean and tight and perfectly in one category and another, it’s not,” the extremist insisted without much evidence. “We know that. So, now what we’re doing is subjecting everybody, all women and all people who are identifying as women to this really invasive testing that only to me says like, ‘Oh we’re just trying to whittle it down to a certain type of woman.’ Is that what we’re doing? That’s really the whole game here.”
She went on to insist that the policy is just based on “hate” for transgender people.
“They sort of lost the battle on gay marriage and lost the battle on all these things, so it’s just like, ‘We’re gonna have this whole campaign for all these years to just hate trans people,’ which is such a small percentage of the population. It’s actually on a single hand when we’re talking about sports. And just like thread the absolute tightest needle thread that you possibly could,” she continued.
Rapinoe then insisted there is no science behind the IOC’s decision.
“This committee is framing it as based in science, which it’s not,” she bloviated. “This will ultimately just prevent people from competing within the women’s category that they feel like they have an unfair advantage. It’s just really hateful. There’s been so few athletes that are trans or competing as trans and it’s so blatant on its face. It’s a total acquiescence to the Trump administration and to really right-wing conservative politics that really is just bringing down so much hate against such a small percentage of people who are just trying to live their life. It’s just horrible, and I’m just sickened by it, really.”
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