{"id":11231,"date":"2024-06-18T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T10:58:11","slug":"transgender-lia-thomas-not-allowed-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11231","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Lia Thomas Not Allowed at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/transgender-lia-thomas-not-allowed-at-the-olympics\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/transgender-lia-thomas-not-allowed-at-the-olympics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, biological male Lia Thomas lost his challenge against the Court of Arbitration of Sport in Switzerland\u2014the world\u2019s top court in matters of sporting fairness\u2014to overturn the twenty twenty-two rule set by World Aquatics, which sets rules that inform elite competitions, including the Olympics, a rule that allows transgender-identified males to compete in women\u2019s swim events <strong><em>only if<\/em><\/strong> they transitioned before the age of twelve or before one of the early stages of puberty. Thomas transitioned well after puberty and thus is disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>While we would like these athletic organizations to completely disallow biological males from participating in women\u2019s sports, this ruling is at least in line with the World Aquatics own rule and helps protect women\u2019s sports at elite levels, like the Olympics, from being unfairly and wrongly co-opted by men.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/transgender-lia-thomas-not-allowed-at-the-olympics\/ Last week, biological male Lia Thomas lost his challenge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}