{"id":249755,"date":"2022-06-19T19:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T00:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249755"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T14:02:15","slug":"world-swimming-bans-transgender-athletes-from-womens-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249755","title":{"rendered":"World swimming bans some trans women athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ap-sans-medium pt-0\">World swimming bans transgender athletes from women&#8217;s events<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-block row mb-4\">\n<div class=\"col-12 columns\">\n<p class=\"metadata pb-1\">BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 World swimming\u2019s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women\u2019s events. FINA members at the organization\u2019s extraordinary general congress voted 71.5% in favor of its new \u201cgender inclusion policy\u201d that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women\u2019s events. James Pearce is the spokesperson for FINA president Husain Al-Musallam. He said that it is not about encouraging athletes to transition by 12, but that scientists are saying transitioning after puberty gives transgender women an unfair advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Jun 19, 2022 6:57 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World swimming bans transgender athletes from women&#8217;s events BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 World swimming\u2019s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women\u2019s events. FINA members at the organization\u2019s extraordinary general congress voted 71.5% in favor of its new \u201cgender inclusion policy\u201d that only permits swimmers who transitioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":247818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249797,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249755\/revisions\/249797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}