Tue Mar 28, 2023 – 5:53 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Gender-confused men will not be allowed to compete at high-level international track and field events against women who live according to the way God made them.
Last Thursday, the World Athletics Council (WAC) voted to ban “transgender athletes” from elite races and other contests reserved for women only.
“The Council decided to prioritize fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion,” the group said in a press release.
Although unfamiliar to the average sports fan, the WAC is actually a powerful organization that serves as the governing body of the highest, non-Olympic track and field events on the planet.
Every two years, the WAC hosts the World Athletics Championships, where gold, silver, and bronze medals are awarded to the top three finishers. Many winners go on to claim Olympic glory.
The group stressed in its press release that “more than 10 years of research” shows there is “evidence of the physical advantages that these athletes bring to the female category.” As such, “the Council has agreed to exclude male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female World Rankings competition.”
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