The allegations that Olympic boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting failed an eligibility test for women's competition have been made by only the International Boxing Association.
          • teamevil@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 month ago

            Wow…I’m impressed, he’s even more gross than I realized, which is impressive because he was already the mostest grossest, I thought

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 month ago

          I only read about four or five paragraphs. This just blew my mind again. Holy shit. Fuck this guy.

          I read about and heard about (podcast and RSS news from the same site) a pastor who claimed the same (the victim was an adult): she enjoyed it because she didn’t resist. Awful people.

          • teamevil@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            Yeah, that’s how I found out about him too…the grossest part to me is the complete abdication of responsibility because she either “came onto” him or “wanted it too” … Seriously even if 100% did actually throw herself at him, he’s the adult and should know better without even thinking. And perhaps explain why the 12 shouldn’t do that and then NEVER TALK TO HER AGAIN… And it just occurred to me why in the hell was he even talking to her in the first place what good could come of a random19-year-old talking to a random12-year-old regardless of gender‽

    • sudneo@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      She is not trans. At most what I read is that she is somewhat in the intersex spectrum. (This is at leas what newspapers were reporting a few days ago)

      • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        That’s what the IBA claims, but it seems they did it so the Russian boxer she defeated would still have a “perfect” record by invalidating their match. They made the same claim against the Taiwanese boxer who is a double world champion (I can’t find the reasoning for it though). There is no credibility to the claims that either are anything but cis woman.

        • sudneo@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          No, I read it from many newspapers and commentators that were defending her, if that matters. It is also something somewhat compatible with the initial claim of the IBA (having XY chromosomes), but of course nothing is certain at the moment.

          • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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            1 month ago

            They were reporting on the IBAs claim that she had XY chromosomes, which, as stated, has absolutely no credibility. They won’t reveal what test they did or how they arrived at those results. When all evidence suggests they made shit up to disqualify her it’s both disingenuous and cruel to give the claims any credence whatsoever.

              • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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                1 month ago

                Did you even read the full article you provided? It literally says that the only source of the claim is the president of the IBA. It points out that having XY chromosomes could mean intersex and not necessarily trans, but it explicitly says there have been no other claims to support this whatsoever.

                • sudneo@lemm.ee
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                  1 month ago

                  How is it different from what I said?

                  In my very first comment I said exactly what’s written in the article. At the moment the opinion everyone is assuming (this was 1st of August) is that she is in the intersex spectrum. I said “at most” because it’s not even certain.

                  Not sure why you think you need to argue when I simply reported what mainstream news was reporting and I am not even contesting what you are saying lol.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Ehhhhhhh. 😒

    For the ‘but sport has to be fair’ people, stop. Sport will never be fair, there are always people with better genetics, and with better access to training and equipment and the time to devote to developing their potential, bla bla bla.
    The people trying to lawyer about who is or isn’t a woman here aren’t here to make sport fair, they’re using the fact you’d like sport to be fair as a way to get you to support their demand to be able to reduce sport into a thing they can pick winners with by disqualifying people on arbitrary standards they get to invent.

    I mean, the people that have been insisting ‘you’re a woman if you were born with those parts’ are now insisting ‘you’re not a woman if I feel like you’re not a woman’. Your takeaway here is that the pretexts will continue to change in order to get or keep your support, the underlying thrust is they want to discriminate against people that don’t fit in to their ideas of what being a woman should mean.