(08-03-2024, 04:59 PM)mikesez Wrote: (1) The IOC is run by unqualified people who think they are experts in every sport.
(2) The IOC does not have a broad rule about how to define gender across sports.  They defer that to the rules making organizations for each sport. 
(3) There used to be rules about gender for boxing, but the IOC and the IBA are in a pissing contest right now for other reasons, so the IBA rules on gender were voided and the IOC has no rules on the subject. 
(4) No one has any evidence that either boxer was anything other than assigned female at birth.  They simply have very high testosterone, probably due to a naturally occurring sex disorder that is no one's fault.
(5) In some sports, like Track and Swimming, the testosterone level would not matter at all.  These manly women would be allowed to compete, no problem.
(6) In boxing and other combat sports, it matters from an athlete safety perspective.  They should not be allowed to compete, in my opinion.

Those 2 statements seem to contradict each other.

In other news.
The issue of gender eligibility criteria surfaced at the 2023 world championships when Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan both won medals in the women’s competition before tournament officials announced the boxers had failed gender eligibility tests. They were stripped of their medals.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ol...628914007/

The ladies should just walk out touch gloves and say You Win. Have fun !

---