Toledo City Council will ban trans athletes from competing in categories other than their biological sex
El Toledo City Council will prohibit the trans people compete in sports categories that do not correspond to their biological sex. He will do it after the Party supported in the last plenary session a motion of its government partners Vox to ensure that it is the biological sex that determines in which category a trans athlete must compete. The sum of the four councillors of the ultra formation and the nine of the PP allowed the text, which had the support of negative vote from the PSOE and IU- Podemos, come out ahead.
The person in charge of defending the motion was the spokesperson for Vox, Juan Marin. "If your chromosomes are XX you are a woman, if they are XY you are a man.", said the councillor, paraphrasing a tweet from the sports journalist, Paloma del Río ―which he referred to as “feminist and publicly declared homosexual”― during the past Paris Olympics after the participation of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif"Sport, to be fair, historically segregates by weight and by sex. If your chromosomes are XY you should not/cannot compete with people with XX chromosomes.".
The motion, which follows the argument of Vox In this area, he argues that the differences between the physical build of men and women “are evident"and that sports categorization by biological sex"It is essential to ensure fair competition, especially in the women's categories.” and avoid “competitive advantages”. The ultras ask for “a clear regulatory framework that protects the rights of all athletes of both sexes and maintains equity in all sports competitions".
European City of Sport
The municipal veto on trans people is, if possible, even more relevant because Toledo It's this year European City of Sport and therefore has a long calendar of sporting events ahead of it.
The approved text will also be “One of the evaluation criteria for the granting of subsidies and municipal support to clubs and sporting events in the city"It is, he summarized Marin, "A motion in defence of women, their femininity and equality".
Opposition groups see the initiative as Vox supported by the popular party a new attack against the rights of the trans community. “They are specialists in wanting to repeal the human rights of the LGTBI community", explained the councilor of IU-Podemos, Txema Fernandez.
The PP justified its support for the motion in “a drift" which, he states, "It calls into question the foundations of our Western society"and of which Pedro Sánchez and his government partners are the promoters, he maintains."Sport should be an activity open to all, free and accessible", defended the councilor of Sports, Ruben Lozano, who assured that the trans law "It has been a tremendous blow to some sports".
This was also recalled by the socialist councillor, Laura Villacañas, who reproached the councilors of Vox for transferring to the plenary session a matter that corresponds to the legislature Congress and assured that in the last eight years no federation or sports club of Toledo has issued no complaints in this regard.
