Male runner has hissy-fit after barred from competing against women in Olympics: he feels 'marginalized'

The guy in orange won

A male sprinter of mediocre talent against fellow fellows, Halba Diouf, is having a cow over being barred from competing against women in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He says he's a woman in spite of being born with a penis and testicles, chromosomes and adam's apple.

Diouf is a French native who began cosmetic procedures to look like a female in 2021. He planned on competing against women and destroy their records, perhaps even set one of his own as a "woman" in the 200-meter sprint, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) came to its senses and decided that men have a biological advantage over women in sports that require speed and strength. Besides, why feed into a person's delusions when psychotherapy is available.

“I cannot understand this decision as transgender women have always been allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold,” Diouf claimed in an interview, as if this had been an accepted practice since wrestlers were wrestling naked in Greece.

“The only safeguard transgender women [i.e., men with gender dysphoria] have is their right to live as they wish, and we are being refused that, we are being hounded … I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions.”

He took the women's medals

Yeah, transgender men are the victims, not the women they compete against, who have trained all their lives only to lose to less talented men, claiming to be women, who have a biological advantage. These men would never stand on an Olympic podium if they stayed in their gender lane.

The World Athletics Council finally decided in March that it would no longer allow so called transgender athletes to compete against women in female World Rankings competitions.

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The move, which went into effect at the start of April, banned “male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty.” 

While that's a good thing, it isn't enough, in my humble opinion, but it's a fair start.

“Decisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,” said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe [aka "Chairman of the Boards" for his indoor track speed in the mile]. 

“We will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years. As more evidence becomes available, we will review our position, but we believe the integrity of the female category in athletics is paramount.”

Why is it that most men in the top tier of their sport understand that they have an advantage over the top tier of the women, but the mediocre men who cannot win want to dominate the women's events?

It isn't the male genitalia or the hormones themselves that give men the biological advantage over women; it's also the muscle mass, the strength and the fast twitch muscle advantage that generally gives men more speed. 

Meanwhile, there's the women who have retired from their sport, woke women like Megan Rapinoe, whose playing days are over and no longer has anything to lose, in spite of her U.S. Women's Soccer Team losing in a match against 15-year-old boys. That should tell us something about innate advantages.

So Diouf can complain and whine all he wants and say he feels marginalized, because that's what self-proclaimed victims do. But at least women will compete against women and men will compete against men--it's only fair.

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