Male athletes who claim to be women are faced with “problematic language” such as “biologically male,” wrote the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in a new 33-page document for media covering the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
The IOC stated that its document “Portrayal Guidelines,” now in its third edition, is “in line with the IOC Gender Equality and Inclusion Objectives for the 2021-2024 period.” The committee added that the guidelines seek “‘gender-equal and fair portrayal practices in all forms of communication’ across the IOC, at the Olympic Games and throughout the Olympic Movement.”
The section of the guidelines dealing with “transgender” athletes pointed out “problematic language” when media cover “athletes with sex variations,” and instructed journalists “to avoid” terms such as:
… “born male”, “born female”, “biologically male”, “biologically female”, “genetically male”, “genetically female”, “male-to-female (MtF)”, “female-to-male” (FtM).
“Use of phrases like those above can be dehumanising and inaccurate when used to describe transgender sportspeople and athletes with sex variations,” the IOC stated. “A person’s sex category is not assigned based on genetics alone and aspects of a person’s biology can be altered when they pursue gender-affirming medical care.”
Recommended terms to use, instead, include: “girl/boy, woman/man, transgender girl/boy, transgender woman/man, transgender person,” the IOC wrote.
“It is always preferable to emphasise a person’s actual gender rather than potentially calling their identity into question by referring to the sex category that was registered on their original birth certificate,” the committee instructed. “If there is a clear reason to refer to the category a person was assigned at birth, the terms to use are: ‘assigned female at birth’, ‘assigned male at birth’, or ‘designated female at birth’, ‘designated male at birth.’”
The IOC document also trains media to use the “correct name, pronouns and/or terms as well as appropriate imagery” in interactions with athletes who claim a gender that is inconsistent with their true sex.
“If necessary, ask the person what pronouns they use and how they identify/ describe themselves, in order to respect their self-determined identification,” the IOC advised, adding: “[A]void deadnaming (referring to a person’s name by which they were previously known but no longer uses) or misgendering (referring to a person – especially a transgender person – using an incorrect gender).”
Yiannis Exarchos, chief executive of Olympic Broadcasting Services, said his team will be using the updated guidelines as “our Bible,” reported The Telegraph.
But Wimbledon champion and advocate for women’s sports Martina Navratilova accused the IOC of waging a “1984 version of war on women,” according to The Telegraph.
“The IOC has been captured,” Navratilova added. “Total erasure.”
The report detailed the timeline of the IOC’s capitulation to the radical LGBT agenda:
The IOC’s vacillation over trans athletes lies behind much of the discord and confusion that has engulfed sport on this issue. In 2004, it endorsed a policy for post-operative transsexuals to enter women’s events, insisting that the situation would be “extremely rare”. By 2015, it had begun recommending testosterone suppression below 10 nanomoles per litre as a solution, despite the average range for women being between 0.5 and 2.4.
Then, at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, IOC Medical Director Dr. Richard Budgett proclaimed: “Everyone agrees trans women are women.”
“Except many women agreed nothing of the sort,” The Telegraph noted, “with France’s Marion Clignet presenting a survey to the UCI last year to show that 92 per cent of female cyclists favoured a ban on biological males from their events.”
Another former Olympian outraged by the IOC guidelines is U.S. cyclist Inga Thompson, who called the IOC the “ultimate misogynist movement.”
She accused the IOC media of having “allowed themselves to be bought, because deep down, they never wanted women to be in sports.”
Canadian mountain biker Alison Sydor has also spoken out against the IOC, noting that the committee cited the radical LGBT activist group GLAAD as a primary authority for its guidelines.
Observing GLAAD’s new promotional T-shirt that reads “No TERFs” [“trans-exclusionary radical feminists”], Sydor commented: “The IOC sure know how to pick a partner to lecture everyone about dehumanizing language.”
Steve McConkey, president of the worldwide sports ministry 4 WINDS USA, also noted the IOC’s actions show disregard for Christians.
“They push radical agendas and have allowed the Olympics to be in countries that persecute Christians, plus they work with the United Nations,” he highlighted. “They were granted observer status by the United Nations to implement the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Individual athletes need to concentrate on their events and Christians need to share Christ despite the Olympic Committee’s efforts.”
