NPR Challenges Readers to Disregard Their Eyes and Common Sense on Trans Sports
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NPR is making a small ask of its readers: That they disregard both their sense of sight and common sense.
On Friday, NPR’s official Twitter account decried the World Athletics Council’s decision to prohibit male-to-female transgender athletes from competing in women’s track and field events, asserting that it was reached despite a dearth of evidence to support it.
“The international governing body for track and field will ban trans women athletes from elite women’s competitions, citing a priority for fairness over inclusion despite limited scientific evidence of physical advantage,” read the now deleted tweet, which linked to a story tying the decision to “dozens of more new and proposed laws that further curb transgender rights” in the United States.
It didn’t take long for Twitter to affix a contextual note to the tweet citing a British Journal of Sports Medicine study indicating that trans women remained significantly faster than their peers even after two years of hormone treatment.
