Creating policy based on feelings, fear and bigotry is never wise.
Yet here we are with the International Olympic Committee and its transgender ban.
The IOC is going to ban transgender women from women’s events in the absence of science, using a flawed verification method that also is illegal in some countries, and in a way that sanctions discrimination against all women. And those are only some of the bad and unconsidered outcomes!
Designed to “protect” women, this ban does the opposite.
"The thing I think most people miss is they’re not actually engaging with the people affected by the policy decision," said Madeleine Pape, a researcher at the University of Lausanne who would know better than most.
