Fact check on sports

There have been various debates on trans athletes [in competitive sports] here on BigCloset. Here is a Fact Check on that subject.

I do not intend to open a controversy or even a debate on the place of transgender athletes participating in various professional, so-called amateur or school-based (secondary and tertiary level) sports events or competitions. Sadly the right and far-right political actors of the host country for the upcoming Summer Olympics are imposing unilateral rule changes based on ideological backlash.

After seeing a lot of ideological hate-mongering from so-called sports journalists, the Deutsche Welle yesterday published a science based fact check that pretty much achieves a neutral presentation of the available scientific facts without presenting or promoting a bias one way or the other. You can view this 8:42 minute report at Fact check: Banning transgender athletes from women’s sports – fair or unfair?.

Please consider this blog purely as a FYI.