Imane Khelif is just the latest case of female athletes being questioned over their sex

[Jilly_in_VA]

Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif is fighting more than just her Hungarian counterpart in the ring Saturday.

She’s now fighting to defend her career as a female athlete amid conservative accusations that she and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting are not women. Both athletes identify as women and have long competed in boxing as female athletes.

Questions arose after the International Boxing Association said both athletes were disqualified from the IBA’s 2023 world championships after failing eligibility tests.

It's the latest controversy in a long history of female athletes being questioned over their sex.

“This whole spectacle is not unique to the Paris Olympics,” said Payoshni Mitra, the executive director of Humans of Sport, which supports athletes with sex variation.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-5061548/imane-khelif-boxer-female-athletes-sex-tests

The Russian-controlled IBA, the outfit "questioning" her gender and that of the Chinese boxer, will not release the results of their supposed "test". They are spurious at best and disingenuous otherwise. Anyone old enough to remeber their Press "sisters", who disappeared the moment gender testing hove on the horizon? I am.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. This will continue

as long as Russia refuses to join the company of other civilized nations. We’re still a ‘provisional member’ IMO. Kamala Harris as President will elevate civility and civilization while Russia continues its descent into god-knows-what.

[LonePirate]

2. Ilona Maher of the Bronze winning US Women's Rugby team has also faced an onslaught of attacks from the right.

She has handled it with far more grace and dignity than I would if I were in the same position. Plus, I think Maher could beat the living hell out of any of those "real" men on the right who have been attacking her.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Remember the East Germans?

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. I had to laugh at one comment

about the Chinese boxer, Lin, who is the other one getting a lot of the comments. She was said in one to be "bulging with muscles". LOL Simone Biles has more muscle than she does!