Meanwhile in manipulation
Always this shameless sneaky obfuscating lie – it’s always “trans” instead of “male.” Why is that? Because, of course, “male” makes it all too obvious why they’re banned, while “trans” makes it look disskrimminittoree to people who aren’t paying much attention.
“Transgender players who have gone through male puberty,” the Graun says – in other words male players. The problem is not that they’re “trans”; it’s that they’re male. Nobody cares how people idennify; the issue is unfair artificial physical advantage. Sean Ingle must know this, of course, which means he must be deliberately hiding the reason for not letting men compete against women, even if they say they are trans.
As the rarest of the rare – a journalist getting published and approximately factual on this topic in The Guardian- I suspect Ingle knows quite well, and would be barred from publishing at all if he didn’t. Either that, or they’d apply the Style Guide even more fiercely.