All boxers, including Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.
All boxers, including Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.
The 1.7% figure is generally considered inaccurate, with most of that 1.7% being anomolous, but not out-right counter to the genotypic sex. LOCAH can cause infertility/reduced menstrual cycles as well as excessive body hair or balding in women, but wouldn’t generally be considered phenotypically male. The second biggest one is a male having their urethra open in the wrong spot, which while anomolous, is certainly not going to make someone think they should be considered to be sexed female just because their penis has the hole in the wrong place.
The syndromes more like one would expect, like AIS, amounts to somewhere around 0.02% to 0.05%.
I appreciate you sharing that information!
I had learned the first piece of information from a professional training led by a recognized expert on sex and gender diversity. It sounds like you are also well-informed on the topic, though, and I am always interested in learning more.
I hope we can agree in our discussion that these distinctions are regarding traits and experiences which, as you said, are “…going to make someone think they should be considered to be sexed…” in a particular way.
What a privilege it is for me, as a cisgender person, to discuss the philosophy of the sexual classification of other people; and to air my thoughts publicly about how other people should understand their own bodies, or be allowed to participate in their own lives.
That was pretty much from Wikipedia, so I’m not innately that aware, just felt like reading the article and summarizing.
When it comes to sports and gender, it seems kind of weird to me that foe the most part we only care about that one biological distinction as a discriminating factor when there’s so many other biological advantages/disadvantages in play.