– As a mother of three children and grandmother of two grandchildren, I will never understand LGBT people. And I don’t want to understand it. I don’t need to be forced to do this, or to be told that I have to be tolerant of these people, says the controversial ski president in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaja Pravda. VG wrote about the statements first. Välbe believes that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has forgotten what the Olympics should really be, and that the Games have become too inclusive. – If you want to be tolerant towards them, create separate Olympic Games for them and let them compete with each other, suggests Välbe in the interview, before she also makes it clear what she thinks about trans people in sports: – Terrible. – I distance myself The Ski President’s comments are not to the liking of the Norwegian IOC member Kristin Kloster Aasen. IOC MEMBER: Kristin Kloster Aasen, photographed here during the Olympics in Pyeongchang 2018. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB – I distance myself from Välbe’s approach and attitude, she states to news. At the same time, she explains about the updates the IOC has made to make the Olympics as inclusive as possible. – In order to ensure participation, anti-discrimination, inclusion and fair play, last November the IOC adopted an overall framework for participation for LGBT athletes, says Kloster Aasen. Nor is Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen impressed. She is also an IOC member: – I distance myself from all her claims, writes the former cross-country skier in a text message to news. Uhrenholdt Jacobsen further writes that the IOC’s sixth fundamental principle distances itself from any form of discrimination – and that this obviously includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. – And when it comes to trans people in sport, i.e. the letter T in LGBT, thorough work has been done in the IOC on this, continues Uhrenholdt Jacobsen. What is LGBT? LGBT is an abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. LHBTQ is also used as a collective term, where the Q stands for queer. This is a collective term for sexual minorities and gender minorities, which is used both by authorities, rights organizations and researchers. A transgender person is a person who has a gender identity or gender expression that does not fully or partially correspond to the gender assigned at birth. In the context of the UN, the usual abbreviation is “SOGI”, an abbreviation for “sexual orientation and gender identity”. New law today LGBTI adviser Mina Skouen of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee also reacts to Välbe’s statements. – This is a dark relic from the past, she believes. – Jelena Välbe has not understood that basic human rights are something you are born with, and that the right not to be discriminated against is absolutely fundamental. A ski president cannot do anything about that right, continues Skouen. The adviser nevertheless clarifies that even if this is perceived as a throwback from the past, the attitudes largely represent the Russian authorities’ view of LGBT people. – That is why this is unfortunately a dark joke from today’s Russia, she says. In 2013, President Vladimir Putin signed a controversial law that led to people being prosecuted for homosexual “propaganda” in front of minors. Today (Thursday) a tightening was adopted. Now it is also forbidden to use “gay propaganda” in front of adults.
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