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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports

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The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest Olympic athlete deemed insufficiently female by extremists obsessed with the strictest of gender binaries.
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    Have article that isn’t paywalled? I just read the preview before it cut me off and it seemed like it was about a trans woman

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      https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/01/imane-khelif-algerian-boxer-gender-paris-olympics/

      "It remains unclear what standards Khelif and Lin Yu Ting of Taiwan failed last year to lead to the disqualifications.

      The IOC, which is overseeing the boxing competition in Paris, does not test for gender, and there never has been evidence that either Khelif or Lin had XY chromosomes or elevated levels of testosterone. They have competed for years, including at the Tokyo Olympics and several world championships."

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      She is intersex, has internal testes instead of ovaries and XY chromosomes. She was heavily exposed to testosterone during her adolescence, hence her appearance.

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        https://youtu.be/GM-e46xdcUo?si=XkCknxsH1BD1Lyho

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        So, none of that is true. She may have high testosterone (which isn’t even confirmed), but none of what you said follows. That isn’t even how that works.

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        According to who?

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          This person on the internet told me…

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