IOC ‘effectively banning’ female only sports by allowing trans athletes to compete

Save Women’s Sport Australasia co-founder Katherine Deves says the IOC’s decision to allow transgender athletes to compete at the Olympics is “effectively banning women and girls from having female only sports categories”. “As far as we know there are at least four born males who will be competing in the female category and that’s off the basis of a decision that was made in 2015,” she told Sky News Australia. “Now the paper that they based their decision on was presented by someone called Joanna Harper who is a trans activist, who is a trans woman, an endurance runner and she consulted with eight people.