About Time IOC

In everyday life, a man can live as a woman and a woman as a man without to many issues and good luck to them, its none of our business, but when it comes to sporting competitions, that is something which i have always said is a step too far because it seems very unfair that women will be competing against with such a massive biological advantage, especially when athletics spends millions trying to catch drug cheats trying to gain the tiniest of advantages.   
Sport did seem to get itself tangled up in knots over it but maybe all it took was the spectacle of men punching women in the face in Paris in 2024 for the International Olympic Committee to decide it may not be fair after all.
In 2003 the IOC decided that that men who fully transitioned to live as women should be allowed to participate in women’s sport but then later in 2016, softened the rules to say that trans-identifying men could compete in female events as long as they took drugs to lower their testosterone.
Then athletics, swimming, rugby and cycling ruling bodies decided to protect their women’s category, they would based inclusion on biology and the IOC position changed to deciding that each sport could make its own rules and then came Paris 2024.
Then came the 2024 Paris boxing rounds and the inclusion of trans women Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting, both of whom were biologically men but took testosterone lowering drugs and both who won gold,
Possibly stung by the backlash of having to defend a man hitting a woman, the IOC commission a report by biologists and athletes and last week they announced that: 'The evidence shows that men retain sporting advantage even if they suppress their testosterone' and the IOC now have a decision they can use to decide who is able to compete.
It amazes me just how complicated this has got because to me, and i am aware that this puts me very much on the opposite side of some people who feel this is unfair to anyone who's gender is different to the one they were born with and as i keep pointing out, you can choose your gender but you can not choose your sex, and no operation or hormone drugs will change the biological facts that a person is XY or XX and that should always be the deciding factor and it shouldn't take a biological woman being punched in the face by a biological man to make other people see it too.