Caitlyn Jenner warns transgender athletes could 'destroy women's sport' in Sky News Australia exclusive interview

American media personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner has claimed it is "terribly unfair" to allow transgender athletes to compete in women's sport.

Caitlyn Jenner has lashed out at activists campaigning for transgender athletes to compete in female sports.

The Olympic gold medallist, who is a transgender woman herself, insists the sanctity of biological women’s sport must be protected.

Ms Jenner told host Rita Panahi in a Sky News Australia Digital Exclusive she disagreed with transgender women competing in women’s sport over fears it could create an uneven playing field.

“When it comes to trans women in women's sports. From the beginning, I honestly I've been against it,” she said.

“I have always tried to protect women in women's sports. I think it can become terribly unfair for women. And honestly, I don't want to destroy women's sports.”

https://youtu.be/4g1EOjH8WHA

Sporting bodies have been forced to review their regulations amid growing controversy over transgender women competing in female competitions.

Basketball Australia last week banned a transgender woman from competing at an elite level while World Athletics and FINA have also both amended their regulations in the last year.

Ms Jenner – who won a men’s Olympic gold medal in the decathlon years before transitioning – said the amendments were necessary due to the biological differences between men and women.

“The big thing is not so much hormone levels later on in life. It is. Did you go through male puberty? Lia Thomas had big hands, big cardiovascular system. It was just totally unfair and had to stop,” he said.

“We won that battle again in track and field. Sebastian Coe, head of World Athletics, came back and said, ‘hey’, he takes fairness over equality and basically banned trans athletes there.”

Lia Thomas won a women’s NCAA Division 1 championship last year after spending 2017 to 2020 competing on the men's team.

She was the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Div 1 championship in any sport.

In the US under Title IX legislation college sports are prohibiting sex-based discrimination in programs or activities that receive federal funding.

Ms Jenner said President Joe Biden was considering amending the legislation so it would apply to transgender athletes from sports teams that align with their gender identity rather than their sex at birth.

“With all this gender ideology going around right now, Joe Biden the Democrats have been on the wrong side… he's going to take Title IX and not like for women, but basically your gender identity, who you think you are,” she said.

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US Expands Sanctions On Russia's FSB For "Holding Americans Hostage"

The Biden administration has taken initial action in response to Russia's detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been in custody since his arrest March 29 in the city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges. The end of this week marks one month since he's been imprisoned.

New sanctions have been imposed on Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for taking Americans "hostage", with a senior admin official telling Axios, "We do think it's significant that the first round of sanctions are being announced specifically for this type of behavior, because we're really concerned about this type of behavior."

The sanctions are intended to deter and punish those who hold Americans hostage, officials said. Gershkovich as well as Paul Whelan have been declared "unlawfully detained".

However, the FSB is already under sanctions, thus these new measures are likely more targeted or an expansion after the initial wave.

Simultaneously on Thursday more sanctions were also unveiled for the intelligence arm of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and additionally four IRGC leaders, for their roles in the arrest and imprisonment of Americans.

The US is "showing that one cannot engage in this sort of awful behavior of using human beings as pawns, as bargaining chips, without paying consequences," according to another a senior US official.

A Moscow court this month denied a request that Gershkovich be placed under pre-trial house arrest…

It appears the US and UK coordinated dual action against Russian officials, with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announcing sanctions the same day against five Russian officials, saying they have "utter contempt for basic human rights."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-expands-sanctions-russias-fsb-holding-americans-hostage

CDC Officials Make False Statements About Possible COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects

Officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made multiple false statements this month regarding possible COVID-19 vaccine side effects, continuing a trend of mis- and disinformation from the public health agency.

Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a top CDC official, recently repeated the lie that the agency has never detected a safety signal for ischemic stroke for the old COVID-19 vaccines.

“No safety signals were detected for ischemic stroke for primary series or monovalent boosters for Pfizer or Moderna vaccines in U.S. and global monitoring,” Shimabukuro told the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a CDC advisory panel, on April 19.

CDC researchers identified ischemic stroke as a safety signal for the original Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, according to files obtained by The Epoch Times. More recently obtained documents show the CDC detected the signal as early as May 6, 2022.

The CDC acknowledges in official documents that any adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination that meet a certain criteria constitute “a safety signal.”

Shimabukuro, who also made the false claim during an earlier meeting in February, has not responded to requests for comment.

A CDC spokesperson previously doubled down on the claim, falsely stating that Shimabukuro was correct.

Ischemic stroke happens when the brain fails to get enough blood supply, according to the Mayo Clinic. It causes brain cells to die within minutes and often leads to death.

Another unnamed CDC official falsely told NBC that the agency has not found data “suggesting a link between COVID-19 vaccines and tinnitus,” a condition that has symptoms such as constant ringing in the ears.

The CDC identified tinnitus as a safety signal in its analysis of possible signals in data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), according to the files obtained by The Epoch Times.

Bert Kelly, a CDC spokesman, told The Epoch Times in an email: “To date, we have no data to support tinnitus and its link to COVID-19 infection or vaccination.”

After becoming aware of reports to the adverse event system of tinnitus after COVID-19 vaccination, the CDC analyzed data from a different surveillance system called the Vaccine Safety Datalink. CDC researchers did not identify any “clustering of tinnitus diagnoses” in the datalink system in the 70 days after COVID-19 vaccination, according to Kelly.

He did not make the data available.

Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, noted that there have been more than 24,000 reports of tinnitus submitted to VAERS after COVID-19 vaccination.

“There is mounting evidence in the medical literature that tinnitus involves inflammation in the brain,” Fisher said, pointing to several studies. “CDC officials should be taking the tinnitus signal seriously and actively pursuing every available avenue of research to find out what is going on rather than doing everything they can to quickly dismiss the reported risk for developing chronic ringing in the ears after COVID shots.”

Tinnitus is listed as a potential side effect of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and regulators in some countries list the condition as a potential adverse event following AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna and Pfizer haven’t been formally linked with tinnitus, though some research has found a statistically significant increase in tinnitus following COVID-19 vaccination, which researchers said “suggest an association between the COVID-19 vaccines” and tinnitus.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/cdc-officials-make-false-statements-about-possible-covid-19-vaccine-side-effects

PNG climate change officials accused of skimming $2 million in public funds

Senior staff at the government body responsible for carrying out Papua New Guinea's climate change response are facing major criminal proceedings after the alleged misappropriation of more than $2 million.

Key points:

Staff at PNG's Climate Change and Development Authority have been accused of corruption and misappropriation of public funds

Finance manager Ivan Aipi faces 35 charges, including illegally executing cheques for the benefit of his boss and associates

The ABC understands two whistleblowers raised concerns with authorities last year

Police have arrested and charged Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA)'s finance manager, Ivan Aipi, after armed officers raided the authority's Port Moresby premises earlier this year, seizing computers and financial records.

Court documents also allege that Mr Aipi's wife, a court magistrate, attempted to bribe an investigating police officer, later allegedly apologising through her clerk and claiming her "husband is spoiling her reputation".

The allegations against CCDA staff include official corruption and misappropriation of public funds, and "illegally executing" cheques for the benefit of CCDA's acting managing director William Lakain and his associates.

The body is funded by local taxes, international grants including money provided by the United Nations, and contributions from a rainforest preservation project with links to Australian businesses.

The CCDA receives 7 per cent of the revenue from the New Ireland Hardwood Timber (NIHT) carbon credits project in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland province.

A Four Corners investigation earlier this year found logging was taking place in rainforests that were meant to be protected by the project, which has sold carbon credits to Australian banks, super funds, law firms, the Sydney Opera House, and environmental group Planet Ark.

Police raided the CCDA just days before the report aired.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/png-national-climate-change-officers-accused-of-skimming-funds/102230786

2 U.S. Army helicopters have crashed while returning from a training flight in Alaska

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