World Boxing’s new eligibility testing regime is to include sex testing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/a...s/cq54ylnz8eyo
The announcement takes time to state that Imane Khelif will not be permitted to compete in the women’s division without taking a sex test first.
Those with long memories may recall this became a cause celebre last summer at the Paris Olympics with rather too many people determined to conflate DSDs (disorders of sexual development) with the broader trans-rights cult and to insist that Khelif is actually woman on the basis of what’s printed in a passport, despite there being credible evidence not only that Khelif is a biological male but also precisely which DSD he suffers from that would have led to an incorrect observation of sex as female at birth that may have gone unnoticed until puberty.
The whole thing is a bit of a mess because those with DSDs are deserving of compassion and understanding and ought not to become human shields for autogynaephiliac men who want to dress up and play women’s sports. Though my sympathy in this case is tempered by the very obvious state of affairs here - Khelif might have been recorded as female and brought up as a girl, but he and his team undoubtedly knew he was male, with male advantage, when they sent him into the boxing ring to beat up young women in Paris last summer.
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Originally Posted by Stephen
Stop talking rubbish. She is a female boxer and always has been female.
Honestly  |
I think it’s well worth re-quoting this post, which is post #2 from this thread.
I said at the time that this assertion was unsupported by the available facts. Given that until 24 hours ago both Khelif’s team and the Eindhoven competition organisers were insisting he was going to take part, I assume Khelif will now simply take the sex test and carry right on, seeing as ‘she is a female boxer and always has been female.’
