The development comes after a presentation to the International Olympic Committee by its medical chief, which highlighted the potential physical advantages of competing in women’s sport after being born male.

  • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    It’s easy to use motivated reasoning to dismiss things you don’t want to be true. Why do you think Khelif is a woman?

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      1 hour ago

      I don’t know. Perhaps I’ll start with the fact it’s highly unlikely a Muslim country would allow a trans male to represent them in boxing at the Olympics?

      How about you pass that bar first?

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        53 minutes ago

        Khelif was incorrectly assigned female at birth and is not trans. Many people with male DSDs like that don’t find that they’re not female until puberty