The report by UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Reem Alsalem urged countries and sporting organizations to prohibit "men who identify as women" to compete in sports events for biological females. She wrote that allowing these transgender women in such competitions leads to biological women and girls experiencing "extreme psychological distress" due to physical imbalance with rivals, loss of fair competition and educational and economic opportunities, and violations of privacy.
Alsalem also noted the damage caused by allowing gender-confused males to compete with females have caused in the field of women's sports in recent years. More than 600 female athletes have lost around 890 medals in more than 400 competitions, in 29 different sports, as a result.
"Giving men so-called hormone blockers so they can compete with women, as some sports leagues do, doesn't work," she remarked. Such medications do not reduce men's natural advantage, and strong hormone drugs can even harm an athlete's health, noted LifeSiteNews.
The rapporteur also cited the risk of injury to female athletes. This risk increases when biologically female competitors face off against biological males. According to Alsalem, physical harm suffered by female athletes as a result of males competing against them can be characterized as violence. (Related: Men pretending to be "women" can no longer box against real females, says World Boxing Council.)
"Alsalem's approach challenges the assumption of Western and UN-backed gender policies, which are based on gender as a social construct unrelated to biological sex," LifeSiteNews pointed out. But instead of praise, the rapporteur and her document received condemnation from representatives of UN member nations.
Dylan Lang, a member of the U.S. mission to the United Nations, rebuked the rapporteur and the document she presented. The diplomat, who was wearing a heart-shaped pin with the colors of the Progress Pride flag during the presentation, accused Alsalem of using "degrading language," "bullying" and spreading "gender misinformation." Lang was not alone in his condemnation, as delegates from the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Mexico, Colombia and other nations also joined in.
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"Sex must be understood in its ordinary meaning to mean biological sex," Alsalem said, citing a declaration from the 1995 UN World Conference on Women held in the Chinese capital Beijing. She continued that the idea of "sex based on biology" has been established in the international human rights catalog, as opposed to the concept of "gender." According to the rapporteur, the two should not be confused."
"Human rights language and principles must continue to be consistent with science and facts, including biological ones. Multiple studies have given evidence that athletes born male have a performance advantage in sports throughout their lives, although this is most apparent after puberty."
Despite the condemnation she received, Alsalem appears to have found an ally in the Ordo Iuris Center for International Law (OI). Julia Ksiazek, an analyst for the Warsaw-based OI, put in her two cents on the rapporteur's findings.
"Alsalem identified a major problem that became fully apparent at the Paris Olympics this year – when it became evident that women were no longer competing against women, but also men who 'identify' as women," Ksiazek said.
"The UN expert rightly noted in her report that athletes' mental identification does not in any way affect their biological predisposition, which they have by being men. This type of situation is the result of lobbying in international law for the concept of 'sex with social context' – gender."
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