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MANCHESTER — FINA World Championships FINA, the governing body of FINA, has set up a working group to consider creating an "open category" to ensure inclusiveness after voting to limit transgender women's participation in the competition of elite women. doing.
However, this concept has already been rejected by trans-athletes before the working group began to consider exactly how open categories work.
For more information on who is eligible to participate in the "Open Category" and what events such departments will attend, FINA will take six months to develop a plan. It hasn't been revealed yet after spending it.
So far, FINA has stated that open categories offer athletes "regardless of gender, legal gender, gender identity"
However, Veronica Transcyclist and two-time UCI Masters World Champion Ivy said the proposal was "extreme resentment."
"FINA's choice to force transgender women into the'open'category with cisgender men is an unethical non-starter," she told Reuters in an interview. ..
"This is the very definition of" separate but equality "and is an extreme resentment towards affected women. Transgender women are legally, socially and medically women. We are legally, socially and medically women.
"We should compete with women and the International Federations need to stop limiting who is'female'or'female' enough," she says. I did.
So far, the only idea that has emerged about swimming is from the FINA World Championships, which wrote a written opinion before the FINA meeting on Sunday.
"Through the reclassification process, swimming sports need to provide an alternative competitive model to ensure inclusion and fairness," the statement said.
They have not submitted a proposal to FINA, but the statement suggests two options.
The first is to change the male category to the "open category" alongside the protected "female category".
Alternative options include women and men and a third open category that allows people who are not qualified or unwilling to compete in the gender-based category to participate in the race. Is to do.
The coach also suggested that the sport could create a trance department and hold trance meetings.
"Transgender women compete with each other. Transgender men compete with each other. Transgender men are not competitive in the current structure, so this discussion is entirely complete. There is an argument that it has been lost, which allows people of uncertain gender to be factored into such a solution, "the statement said.
However, Caitlyn Jenner, who announced the transition from Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn in 2015, asked if there were enough trans-athletes to make such a system viable. I'm wondering.
"They talk about having different departments for trans-athletes, there aren't enough trans-athletes in the world to compete differently. For now, I'm a trans-swimmer. I know only one person. It's Lia Thomas. There aren't enough people there, "she said.
Jenner uses FINA's open-category ideas as a "whitewash" to mitigate the impact of voting on restrictive movements, that is, movements favored by Americans. I suggested that.
Charlie Martin, a transgender female motor racing driver, strongly opposes this idea.
"It is not a solution to create an open category that allows transgender women to be freely placed, effectively ending their professional careers and giving them the right to compete." She said.
However, this issue may remain a controversial point for some time.
On Thursday, the badminton governing body was up to date with a review of the guidelines.
World Athletics and FIFA are one of the governing bodies considering transgender inclusion policies. (Report by Simon Evans, additional report by Shrivathsa Sridhar, edited by Ken Ferris)
