FINA Vote On Transgender Policy: Transgender Females Cannot Compete In Female Category If They’ve Gone Through Puberty

You do realise that this will target absolutely everyone right? Even a hint of doubt about an athlete (whether male or female by birth or not) will make them eligible to be subjected to chromosomal or even genital inspection…

Are you advocating for cis-women to be subjected to this as well? I mean, if you are in favour of fairness, you should absolutely be in favour of cis-women and cis-men getting targeted the exact same way.

Women’s rights: Don’t make me laugh, did you actually read the guideline or are you just applauding a new guideline about a subject your knowledge might be a bit to limited on, about as limited as the people who probably wrote it?

I, as a transfemale at least are absolutely dead scared this is going to blow over to other sporting competitions, and even though I have absolutely no plans on competing in championships what so ever: this is going to cause people with the mindset that you have to cause transpeople in general to have to explain themselves even more.
And all of that due to a guideline that is setup by people inexperienced with the subject, misconceived about what hormones do and don’t do, and how the transition process works.
The guideline is flawed in so many ways it just shows they didn’t talk to actual medical experts, but were looking to experts to basically reinstate their view that they understand the transition process.
For instance: “Finishing transition before the year someone turns 12 or has suppressed male puberty before Tanner Stage 2” is one of the things that will not be possible, if anything, someone will have just started puberty supressing medication, so in most countries, switching sex on the birth certificate to match the desired sex will not have been possible legally, just like treatment with cross-sex hormones is, let alone surgery.

But keep believing this is protecting women’s rights… I can only hope there will be many national swimming unions fail to provide the medical information necessary, or have an insane amount of swimmers requesting to practice in the open categories as a form of protest, since the FINA has actively mentioned they are still working out what that looks like and I hope as a result would face a serious problem as a result.
Also the last time I checked the amount of people in top-sport categories who are trans is so incredibly small it would be impossible to create a whole open category for it, which is next to the fact the swimming union decided to ignore the fact that trans people will face fatal physical violence when forced to out themselves up to this day, so it’s nothing really major to have to request a sporter to just lay out their biggest secret to the whole world right? I mean, someone who might not know has never ever before commited acts of violence after they found out about someone’s history…