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Women and girls lose prizes, awards and money when men are allowed to compete in women’s sports.

Femina Helvetica strongly advocates for the segregation of the two sexes in competitive sport. We recognize that men permanently hold and retain physical advantages over women, even if they take estrogen. Such advantages include (but are not limited to) speed, strength, weight and size differences.

We are appalled by the changes in policies that have been implemented by many sports bodies, with categories being separated according to "gender identity" rather than sex. Such changes have reached down to local sports clubs, which have introduced policies permitting boys and girls to participate according to the “gender” they identify with. (e.g., EHC Basel Ladies)

The inclusion of men in female sports poses potential risks to the physical safety of women and girls (e.g. injuries on the field or harassment in changing rooms). In addition, these policies place females at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to winning medals, being selected for teams or acquiring sponsorships.

Men who self-identify as women are now taking part in women’s sports and winning competitions in Switzerland:

A Swiss man, Nicola/”Nicole” Orlandi, won the world judo female championship in 2019. In a documentary on SRG/SSR focusing on his “transition”, he was depicted as a star. Italian Swiss television RSI also portrayed him as a female athlete in a piece on sex equality, and invited him to discuss with female athletes about equality in sport. How is it permissible for a man who is cheating by competing with women to be talking about “equality”?

A man, “Kiana” Gysin, won the female cycling race Zuricrit in Zurich in 2023, which caused public outrage. He gave up the idea of running again the following year, purportedly because his testosterone level was too high.

According to the website shewon.org, the inclusion of men in Rad Race Fixed 42 World Championship, Women’s Cycling in Berlin, on July 2, 2023 put Selina Burch, a Swiss woman, in third place. Without male participants, she would have been first or second.

Many male journalists such as Patrick Oberli (Prix Dumur awardee 2016) are especially supportive of men who identify as women and want to compete in women’s sports, and even question the material, biological reality of womanhood by asking: “What is a real woman?”

Femina Helvetica demands that no men, regardless of their identification, should compete in women’s sports. We think that it is a disgrace that journalists praise men who want to compete in women’s sports.

Femina Helvetica requests that medals and prize money obtained by these men should be returned, and awarded to the women who were unfairly ranked behind them.

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