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Legendary sportscaster Bob Costas praised nan International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) argumentation alteration this week banning transgender athletes from competing successful women’s sports, saying, "Common consciousness is not transphobic."
Costas, nan longtime sound of nan Olympics, addressed nan groundbreaking argumentation alteration during an quality connected CNN this week. Costas said that while immoderate usage nan rumor "for governmental purposes," nan IOC argumentation does not autumn nether that umbrella.
Sportscaster Bob Costas connected nan section earlier a crippled betwixt nan Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles astatine SunTrust Park successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected June 22, 2018. (Brett Davis/USA TODAY Sports)
"Common consciousness is not transphobic. There’s a logic why nan high school champions don't compete pinch nan assemblage champions. There is simply a logic why nary trans man who was erstwhile a female and has go a man has ever competed successfully pinch men successful nan Olympics.
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"If Caitlin Clark could play successful nan NBA, everybody would applaud it – that would beryllium an unthinkable thing. But if nan past feline connected nan chair of an NBA squad went to nan WNBA and started averaging 40 points, everyone would cognize that is BS."
The IOC unveiled nan argumentation Thursday, limiting female title to biologic females. Eligibility will beryllium wished by SRY cistron screening, besides known arsenic genetic testing.
"Based connected technological evidence, nan IOC considers that nan beingness of nan SRY cistron is fixed passim life and represents highly meticulous grounds that an jock has knowledgeable antheral activity development. Furthermore, nan IOC considers that SRY cistron screening via saliva, feature swab aliases humor sample is unintrusive compared to different imaginable methods," nan IOC executive committee said successful a property release.
The Olympic rings astatine nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters. ( LAURENT GILLIERON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
IOC ANNOUNCES NEW POLICY TO ENSURE ONLY FEMALES COMPETE IN WOMEN'S COMPETITIONS
Before nan 2024 Summer Olympics successful Paris, way and field, swimming and cycling had adopted policies that efficaciously prohibited trans athletes who had undergone antheral puberty from participating successful female competition. The caller argumentation ensures that it applies to each sports up of nan 2028 Games successful Los Angeles.
Costas said that while he believes immoderate are "demonizing" trans athletes complete nan issue, nan IOC argumentation addresses adjacent title for female athletes.
"There is simply a logic why location are men’s and women’s sports and why Title IX was 1 of nan genuinely progressive pieces of authorities successful nan champion consciousness of nan connection progressive nether nan Nixon administration. It changed everything.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry speaks to volunteers, up of nan 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Daniele Mascolo/Pool Photo via AP)
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"It doesn’t make immoderate consciousness to person a swimmer who was nan 472nd-ranked swimmer erstwhile he was a man astatine Penn either winning aliases coming adjacent to winning against women a twelvemonth and a half aft transitioning. If that’s what nan personification wants to do, that personification should beryllium treated pinch dignity and respect. But location ought to beryllium communal sense, and communal consciousness is not transphobic."
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