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I can’t be as sanguine about Khelef as you are. This person went through male puberty and has to know that confers a serious advantage in BOXING of all things. It should be perfectly possible to disqualify athletes with certain intersex conditions. Here’s a helpful explainer: x.com/fondofbeetles/sta…
I can’t be as sanguine about Khelef as you are. This person went through male puberty and has to know that confers a serious advantage in BOXING of all things. It should be perfectly possible to disqualify athletes with certain intersex conditions. Here’s a helpful explainer: https://x.com/fondofbeetles/status/1819402288789590246?s=46&t=n5aT7rYlze2UgFxCg6_HqA
I don't think we know for certain what intersex condition Khelef has. Some render the person completely insensitive to testosterone, and that person does NOT experience male puberty even though they have XY chromosomes.
Yes, I know. But XY people who compete in elite women's sports tend to be the androgen-sensitive type. Three such people won all three medals in one track event in the Rio Olympics, for example.
OK, maybe that's not unreasonable (the weird lack of information and all the drama around this makes me doubt this explanation as well), but there's no reason that a boxing match between Italy and Algeria had to become fodder for the US culture war, with MAGA loons demanding that the Democratic candidate for president of the US should weigh in.