The United Nations, of all groups, is surprisingly standing up for female athletes.
Well, at least one of their representatives is.
A recent UN report titled “Violence Against Women” reveals female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to men competing in women's sporting categories.
“According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports,” the report, covered by the New York Post, added.
“That is just the number that has been reported and accounted for,” Women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines reacted in an interview with Fox & Friends Wednesday morning.
Despite the number being “shocking to your average person,” Gaines told Fox even just “one girl” cheated in her sport by a biological male is “one girl too many.”
She highlighted females “being exploited in locker rooms,” and “injured in their sport.”
Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls who complied the report agrees.
She considers “any country that allows biological men to compete in women’s sports is allowing violence against women.”
“Women and girls already have many odds stacked against them that impede their equal and effective participation in sports,” Alsalem, who presented her report to the UN General Assembly, said.
She added that “their ability to play sport in conditions of safety, dignity and fairness has been further eroded by the intrusion of males who identify as female in female-only sports and related spaces.”
It doesn’t matter that some sport federations limit the testosterone levels of men competing against women, Alsalem asserts. This “will not eliminate the set of comparative performance advantages they have already acquired,” she explained.
