Thread by @KirstiMiller30

Where was this edge in Tokyo @TraceyLeeHolmes where was this edge when the current T policy of the IOC damaged K Worleys’ health, where was this edge when the T policy put me in the ICU?

https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1483202182329602052

I suggest these deer's in the headlights forget the words trans, Hannah or Kirsti & google what the consequences to health are when an XY physiology experiences Complete Androgen Deprivation CAD, it premature aging it eventually kills you!

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Athletes caught up in the IAAF/IOC policy on hyperandrogenism were required – in order to partake in sport – to undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions unrelated to their health status.

These procedures have been called into question as invasively counterproductive to the wellbeing of those women.

Many have and still continue to presume that, by comparison, transgender and transtioned female athletes have no similar health concerns with their overarching requirement is to keep serum testosterone levels below 10 nmol/L, or 5nmol/L.

In a resounding victory for evidence-based policy, the UCI accepted Worley’s critique that the Testosterone policies originating from the IOC was invasively counterproductive to the wellbeing of XY transgender and XY transitioned women.

In essence, Worley underwent gender reassignment via surgery in 2001 & attempted to re-enter the world of sport. But when she applied for a (TUE) for testosterone (which is a vital hormone for women, as well as men), approval took ten months instead of days or weeks.

This put Worley into a “complete androgen deprived state”. It not only impacted on her health, but it prevented her from training as an elite cyclist or competing at any level of sport.

Ultimately, when Worley was permitted a TUE under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code, the allowable:

… levels of synthetic testosterone … were not enough to support her basic health.

I am bullish on IOC’s new framework the new direction will pay dividends throughout all levels of sports. I see direction as an affirmation.

It is treating us all as individuals instead of a monolithic community,” she said. That is a number one paradigm shift. That is what I fought for from day one in this discussion.

Individual sporting world governing bodies will be empowered to create their own regulations to fit their sports with guidance from an IOC-built set of 10 principles that start from an emphasis on inclusion and non-discrimination.

Left out of the framework is the focus on direct regulation of endogenous T levels for transgender women. The long-standing regulation has been a flashpoint of contention that affects trans athletes & cis athletes with what the IOC has termed “differences in sexual development”.

In its place, the new policy would focus on evidence-based, sport-specific solutions that use sport results and lab results as the measuring stick. Similar to how the AFLW do it without the blanket T.

The arbitrary T (testosterone) level made no sense. There was no assessment of speed, no assessment of endurance, no assessment of strength or physique.

The new IOC framework, effective March 2022, suggests that restrictions for participation should be based on data collected from a demographic group consistent in gender and athletic engagement.

I hope sports that implement policies under the IOC would consider adopting the approach used by Australian Football League Women’s.

A transgender woman seeking to play in the elite division of the league would have to submit data on a set of strength, endurance & speed parameters, which would be compared to an aggregate of all league players over a 2-year period to assess of level of advantage if one exists.

This is the type of study that sports moving forward will have to do. All these other similar sports such as @WorldRugby could refuse and not implement the IOC policy and leave themselves open to litigation. These sports will refuse to heed the IOC at their own peril.

There is legal precedents involved, led by the case of Canadian cyclist Kristen Worley, who first took the Union Cycliste Internationale to court after being the first trans athlete to submit to gender testing after the initial Stockholm Consensus in 2003.

Worley won a settlement from both the UCI and Canada’s national governing body for cycling in the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in 2017 after it was determined that the policy calling for forced reduction of testosterone was detrimental to her overall health.

The science proved beyond any doubt that androgen deprivation is a serious illness and that is what they have forced athletes like me and athletes like Caster and we’ve all become unwell.

Kristen choose to lose her career to fight for the better cause because this isn’t just a trans or intersex issue. This is a women in sports issue and we wouldn’t be here without Kristen Worley.

Sports moving forward they must have affected athletes centered in this and the IOC has said they want survivors and we are all survivors who have to be centered in this.

We’re all women and I believe that this is going to stop the gender stereotypes and body stereotypes and this is a massive step for all women in sport.

In this episode of The Trans Sporter Room -- I discussed with @ChardonnayM On Why the IOC Framework Can Work.

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