Caitlyn Jenner: Not fair for trans pupils to play girls’ sports

Caitlyn Jenner, who won the men’s Olympic decathlon gold medal as Bruce Jenner in 1976 before transitioning decades later, has voiced opposition to biological males who say they are female competing in girls’ sports at school.

Jenner, 71, a member of the extended Kardashian reality TV clan who is running for Republican governor of California, told TMZ: “This is a question of fairness. That’s why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls’ sports in school. It just isn’t fair. And we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools.”

Jenner’s views on girls’ sports are at odds with US President Joe Biden who signed an executive order in his first days in office to guarantee ‘equality in schools’. That has been interpreted as forcing public schools to accept biological males who who identify as female to compete in sports or lose Government funding.

Guidelines set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association requires just one year of hormone treatment for male-bodied ‘trans-women’ athletes to compete on a female team, while female-bodied, trans men remain eligible to compete in women’s sports until the athlete begins a transition by taking testosterone.