Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan has clinched her first Olympic medal in front of a crowd that chanted her name at the Paris Games.

Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan clinched her first Olympic medal Sunday in front of a crowd that chanted her name at the Paris Games, one day after fellow boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria secured one as well following days of online abuse and intense scrutiny about their participation.

Lin defeated Svetlana Kamenova Staneva of Bulgaria in a women’s 57-kilogram quarterfinal, earning her second straight unanimous decision and advancing to the division’s semifinal round to ensure she will win at least a bronze medal.

Lin and Khelif have been at the center of a clash over gender identity and regulations in sports, as critics have brought up their disqualification from the world championships last year after the banned International Boxing Association claimed they failed unspecified eligibility tests for women’s competition.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    I was thinking about something this morning… how many women are going to be turned off of sports by finding out that they have some sort of testing, be it genetic testing or genital examination vs. finding out that there’s a chance they might compete against someone who isn’t a “real” woman? Because I think the former. I think being forced to prove you’re a woman is a far bigger way of discouraging girls and women from competing than the chance they might compete against someone who has some unfair male advantage based on averages.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        So not what was done in the case of Yu-Ting Khelif. Or at least not what they admitted to doing.

        And no, you’re not “either a real biological woman or you’re not.” It’s nowhere near that simple:

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            14·
            5 months ago

            Cool. Which category should the person whose “all that crap” is XX plus the SRY gene with a body that appears to be biologically male be in?

            Since you know about chromosome mutations, perhaps you can tell me if they’re a man or a woman.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                14·
                5 months ago

                This doesn’t sound so simple like you made it out to be. You said a chromosome test. Now you are saying that you need to test for the SRY gene as well. What else do you need to test for?

                By the way, your continual discussion about how punching someone can kill them- no shit. People get killed in the boxing ring all the time. That’s a risk when it comes to boxing. It’s not like a woman can’t be just as easily killed by another woman in the ring.

                You’re acting like these women are weak and fragile little flowers when any one of them likely could kick your ass and then have the energy to kick my ass and kick the ass of any other men posting in this thread, then run ten miles and not even feel winded.

                By the way… do you think that maybe having to get medical testing to prove you’re really a woman might discourage girls and women from being in competitive sports? Or does that not matter?

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                    10·
                    5 months ago

                    This is what you originally said:

                    It’s just a chromosome test, just a blood test.

                    You also said:

                    So xx plus sry makes females have a male phenotype. That’s what the sry gene does. It makes their bodies i.e muscles and physical traits and behaviors develope as if males would.

                    Which would require more than a chromosome test. So make up your mind.

                    On to your current post…

                    We should test for whatever gives these people an unfair advantage.

                    Who are “these people” exactly? Is Brittney Griner one of “these people” too? Should she also be tested down to the genetic level to prove whether or not she is, as you put it, “a real biological woman or your not?”

                    And speak for yourself. No woman is beating my ass then having enough energy to beat my friends ass too then going about their day like nothing happened.

                    Okay, tough guy. You really know a lot about how weak and fragile women are, don’t you?