Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.

Jeeze, some amount of traffic in here!

They are trying to exclude transgender athletes.

I suppose we should be thankful that you didn't resort to your walls of irrelevant text, and instead just went for a straightforward single sentance lie.

Just because you keep repeating the same lie doesn't make it true, and is not going to convince any rational person that is true.

All transgender competitors will be free to compete in their sex category under the rules. NOBODY is being excluded. You continuously repeating the same lie is not going to change that.

Mate I don't care if you're the Queen of Sheba. You can only speak from your own experience, and that's of no value whatsoever when you come out with nonsense like claiming that because you've never heard of women being subjected to abuse in sports, the implication is that it doesn't happen. I didn't accuse you of lying, nor ignorance either when you lamented the fact that the Boston Marathon had made another category for non-binary runners and you posited that they would have a transgender category next. I've never run further than the local bakery and I could point out to you that they already had a transgender category, since 2018.

I can speak from my own experience as someone who volunteers as an administrator in some of the sports I have competed in. And that is Waaaaaay more than you have, MATE! You're an internet nobody with absolutely nothing to back up your disgusting assertions about the motivations of sports administrators.

Your lies about administrators' motivation just reflects your absolutely desperate need to see bad motivation and oppression everywhere, presumably so you can come in as the great saviour to rescue the poor oppressed.

I see you can't stand behind your own assertions now, and try to shift the subject to something else, in this case "women being subjected to abuse in sports", which is not what you were referring to, and not what I was referring to. More lies. You can't seem to help yourself with the continuous lying.

And I haven't a feckin clue what nonsense your on about WRT the boston marathon.

It's still not irrelevant, and the fact that you're on 2 sports governing bodies (out of thousands of governing bodies in sports) doesn't mean you get to dictate the rules of the discussion when the discussion isn't going your way. Throwing your toys out of the pram doesn't help your argument either.

I'd guess that my two is infinitely larger than your likely ZERO!

I'm not dictating the discussion. I'm pointing out your disgusting lies about peoples' (including me in this case) motivation for their actions on sports governing bodies. You assert those lies without anything to back them up apart from, it would seem, your own prejudice against anyone who does more than sit on their computer pumping out endless volumes of word salad, and instead goes out into the real world to work to make the world a better place in some small way (in this case, by helping to administer sports).

I meet these people. I interact with them. I've got a good idea what their motivations are. You have nothing but your own evidence free prejudice

And in the real world, more progress…

It would be massive progress if the biggest sports organisation ensured that only females would be eligible to compete in the female category. If this progresses into solid action, it will hopefully ensure that this applies across all events in the Olympics.

Also, that's refreshingly clear language from Sean Ingle in The Guardian. No embarrassment or obfuscation around the terms "biologically male" or "biologically female".

World Athletics has introduced SRY screening, a gene test that uses a cheek swab to assess if someone is biologically male or female, for the world championships in Tokyo.

For what it's worth, I remember a while back when the thinking wasn't as clear, a woman on an RTE panel who revealed that she has PCOS, and was basically wondering would women with that condition be "targeted next" because it also results in higher than normal T levels in women, and it also corelates with greater sporting success. But, that way of thinking is very wrong and resulted from the previous attempts to define the female category in terms of Testosterone levels, rather than the obvious actual differences between men and women. Nobody has ever argued that women with PCOS aren't actually women.

Definitely a good sign. John Boyne is being interviewed by Oliver Callan at this moment, and they didn't shy away from the controversy, which is good also. Hard to say whether Callan was just channeling the best of the opposing point of view (which doesn't amount to much) or whether he believes it himself. But, questions like - why are you writing for such deplorables as the Daily Telegraph don't inspire much confidence. I got the impression that the sub-text from Callan was an attempt to get Boyne to shutup as well.

I wonder will the women just need to train harder brigade have anything to add.