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OC restores common sense to women’s sport – now it’s time for New Zealand and Australia to follow suit : Comments
By Nerissa Scott and Ro Edge, published 9/4/2026If fairness matters at LA28, why not at school sport? The IOC’s decision now puts pressure on Australia and New Zealand.
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Posted by Armchair Critic, Thursday, 9 April 2026 8:22:49 AM
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Tests are a waste of time and money. We can tell a man from a woman by looking at them.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 9 April 2026 8:50:22 AM
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I'm not going to celebrate this result.
It just fixes something that should never have been broken in the first place.
I'll just stop criticising the previous 'inclusive' rules that were doing harm.
The War on Stupid is like playing whack-a-mole.
You can fix something that someone 'broke', but no doubt some other idiot has broken something else and you have to go and fix that now as well, it never ends.
Why must we be followers in these stupid 'fads' in the first place?
Aren't we supposed to be the adults?
To think sensibly for ourselves, make rational decisions and NOT DO the knee-jerk reaction and go 'with the crowd'.
You stated "For the past decade, the conversation in sport has been almost entirely about how to include trans-identifying males in the female category. Resources, policy papers and endless meetings have focused on finding ways to make that inclusion “work” – while the far more important question of how to include everyone fairly and safely has been ignored. We have spent ten years debating how to unfairly accommodate one group at the direct expense of another, rather than asking how males who do not feel at home in the male category can be supported within the natural diversity of their own sex, or how alternative pathways for inclusion might be created without disadvantaging girls and women."
- It's just gone full circle back to the beginning now though...
You see before, we entertained the idea that when a man had his bits chopped off and identified as a woman, that he really was a woman, and that all this was 'normal'.
Now we're saying, 'No, we were just kidding - you're not really a woman, you're a man with no bits, wearing women's clothes and you're not normal'.
Mum: 'Little Johnny, if all the other kids jumped off the cliff would you jump off the cliff too?"
Little Johnny 'Yes mum, I would too.'
Mum: [Rolls eyes] 'Ugh.'