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Olympic 2024 boxing controversy: IBA add to confusion over eligibility row
  • Olympic games are for biological “freaks”.

    Yet we still have separate men's and women's divisions in the Olympics. Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting should be competing in the men's division, because they have the biological advantages that men do.

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    Simples.
  • It actually is really simple. If you're born with XY chromosomes, you're a man. If you have XY chromosomes and ambiguous genitalia that can look like a vagina, then you're a man with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD).

    Men with DSDs will often have elevated testosterone levels because they also have testicles, sometimes underdeveloped and/or undescended. That's not what makes them a man though, it's their XY chromosomes.

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  • Imane Khelif has been confirmed to be a man with DSD. He was born with ambiguous looking genitals, but is not a woman. This article disingenuously trying to tie that to Serena Williams is racism, plain and simple.

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  • www.telegraph.co.uk IOC first received Imane Khelif gender test report 14 months ago

    Leaked letter reveals IBA told Olympics governing body that Algerian boxer’s DNA ‘was that of a male’ in June last year

    > Leaked letter reveals IBA told Olympics governing body that Algerian boxer’s DNA ‘was that of a male’ in June last year

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