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Leading article Australia

To go woke or to win?

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

In a rare outbreak of common sense, one of the world’s international sporting bodies this week decided to ban ‘transgender female’ (meaning ‘biological male’ – a classic contemporary example of Orwellian, inverted Newspeak) athletes from competing in female sports. It’s a much-welcomed decision and suggests that perhaps we have hit Peak Woke and now some sanity might return to this vexed topic.

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