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Michael Higgins: What have the Liberals, and the CBC, got against women?

Ottawa doesn't seem too happy about IOC decision to limit women's categories to females

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As the world slowly comes to terms with restoring the rights of women, the Carney government seems intent on perpetuating discrimination against females.

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The International Olympic Committee, once steadfast in its bizarre commitment to opening up the female sporting category to all and sundry, is the latest organization to see the light.

Michael Higgins: What have the Liberals, and the CBC, got against women? Back to video

A statement last week from the IOC was headlined “on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.”

The IOC’s new policy is that only “biological females” will be able to compete in the women’s category.

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It’s a sensible, if long-awaited, decision although the left will rail and fulminate against it — in its coverage of the decision, the........

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