Unfair Play by Sharron Davies;Craig Lord

Author:Sharron Davies;Craig Lord
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Martina Navratilova;trans;women’s sport;Olympics;swimming;women’s football;transgender inclusion;gender critical;gender critical feminism;biological women;fair play for women;sex matters;women in sport
Publisher: Swift Press
Published: 2023-05-24T22:28:42+00:00

Rowing into choppy waters

In October 2022, British Rowing chair Mark Davies urged World Rowing to update its inclusion policy. His message was clear: follow FINA’s decision four months earlier and preserve the women’s category for female rowers only.

World Rowing’s policy allowed transgender women to enter female competition if they kept their testosterone below a level at least five times above what I had as an athlete in the middle of the standard female range. Davies told the World Rowing Congress in Prague:

World Rowing is less protective of women’s sport than some other international sports federations like FINA, which has adopted a policy of having open and women’s categories, where open is for anyone who went through male puberty – recognising limiting testosterone levels fails to counteract the lasting impact of that. Might rowing look at its policy out of concern that there is a threat to hard-fought-for progress in women’s sport, and consider following FINA’s lead?281

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