The DFB's new rule will apply at the amateur and youth levels, as well as in futsal, from next season. "This reinforces the DFB's desire to promote the acceptance and participation of LGBTIQ+ people in football," federal government queer representative Sven Lehmann told DPA news agency.
The German government is in the lead - emphasizes the queer representative
Lehmann emphasized that "with the new regulation, football can once again show its role as an example. Every person should be able to play football without discrimination," reports the German newspaper Die Zeit . The DFB also announced that "as long as playing sports while taking medication does not affect the health of those involved, they can participate in the matches, the new regulation thus excludes the relevance of doping" .
With this step, the DFB goes against, for example, the decision of the world swimming federation, FINA, on Sunday, which introduced new rules for transgender swimmers.
based on these, they can only participate in women's competitions if they have completed the gender change by the age of twelve. FINA 's decision was based on the results of scientific tests , and the organization also stated as a reason that transgender people get an unjustified advantage due to the fact that their development during puberty is determined by the higher level of testosterone. Justice and equal conditions are one of the axioms of sport.
Zeit gives the example of a trans swimmer with male muscles
Die Zeit notes that the decision means that, for example, American transgender swimmer Lia Thomas will no longer be able to compete in international competitions, as she only started hormone therapy in 2019. Thomas previously "wrote history" when he became the first transgender to win a championship in the highest division of the NCAA collegiate association in March of this year.
It should be added to the case of Lia Thomas that the now 23-year-old swimmer was a competitor of the men's team of the University of Pennsylvania under the name Will Thomas for three years, until November 16, 2019, and then after coming out, she transferred to the women's swimmers and broke records one after another .
The scandal of the trans swimmer emerged from daily news reports illustrating the widespread spread of gender ideology and caused national outrage after a video recording appeared on Twitter, in which the male-muscled Thomas thoroughly schooled the female field:
She set an absolute record in the 1,500 meters with an amazing margin, winning with a 38-second advantage over the biological woman who finished in second place.
Source: hirado.hu
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