The argument has moved between beyond trans women in women’s sports. Lia Thomas was not at the Olympics: the organization responsible for swimming said no.
Now we’re down to oddball cases like the two supposed female boxers, one of whom won the gold medal.
The organization for boxers had failed both of them earlier. They have XY chromosomes. But the boxing organization has been deemed corrupt so the Olympics banned them and ignored their test results. The Olympics itself has no rules beyond checking athletes passports. So they got in.
Some people think they might like Caster Semenys, with XY chromosomes but also with a congenital defect called 5-ARD. The babies are born without male genitalia and are thought to be girls. But they have male strength after puberty.
The argument has moved between beyond trans women in women’s sports. Lia Thomas was not at the Olympics: the organization responsible for swimming said no.
Now we’re down to oddball cases like the two supposed female boxers, one of whom won the gold medal.
The organization for boxers had failed both of them earlier. They have XY chromosomes. But the boxing organization has been deemed corrupt so the Olympics banned them and ignored their test results. The Olympics itself has no rules beyond checking athletes passports. So they got in.
Some people think they might like Caster Semenys, with XY chromosomes but also with a congenital defect called 5-ARD. The babies are born without male genitalia and are thought to be girls. But they have male strength after puberty.
I was planning to write a little about the boxers (and Caster Semenya) tomorrow.