[jfman]

The bans had the right of appeal to the Court for Arbitration for Sport and neither Khalif nor the other one took it that far. There's the obvious privacy issue that should prevent the IBA going public, while at the same time the IOC didn't seem to be using any biological criteria at all. Invoking the Russian bogey man weakened their argument in my mind.

Organisations, inside and outside sport, were very happy to take the Russian rouble to line their own pockets for two decades. Much as many are turning to Saudi money without much consideration of human rights abuses there.

In boxing the number one issue, ahead of inclusion for transgender people which the IOC process is clearly designed for, should be the safety of all competitors. Second to that is fairness. Boxing is sub divided into weight classes for these reasons. Almost every sport divides into male and female for the second reason.