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Banned governing body that's fueling outcry on Olympic boxers has Russian ties and troubled history (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The IBA is funded by Gazprom, and only disqualified Khelif after she defeated a Russian boxer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

A Russian boxer whose “perfect” record was ended by the loss. By disqualifying Khelif after the fact they invalidated the bout to protect the Russian’s record.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The right would rather attack a real woman than, oh, say, a literal child rapist

https://apnews.com/article/2024-olympics-convicted-rapist-beach-volleyball-4242a8021f6cefcc44953bb9d6823f45

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy fucking shit.

[–] teamevil 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Plus his defense was essentially she was into it...he's a gross person

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While she was provided with alcohol

[–] teamevil 3 points 4 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 4 months 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‽

[+] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No they were not (the articles), they were explicitly citing the IBA precedent as unreliable and instead providing possible alternatives, with the caveat that they are not confirmed. It was just the most "quoted" possibility at the time.

See for yourself was I was referring to (you can translate)

https://www.ilpost.it/2024/08/01/olimpiadi-boxe-pugile-angela-carini-imane-khelif/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months 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 14 points 4 months 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.

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I understand that the allegations are not very specific, but does the IOC do its own testing which would conclusively disprove them? I've seen a lot of discussion about the credibility of the accusers (low) and the ethics of transgender participation in sports, but all that discussion would be moot if these boxers are in fact biologically female with no abnormalities.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The IOC does have its own eligibility requirements and does its own testing. The IOC does not test for "gender".

The boxer is not trans. How do I know this? She's from fucking Algeria, she'd be dead if she was trans, not in the Olympics representing the country.

[–] Brunbrun6766 11 points 4 months ago

They don't test her gender fluid??

[+] [email protected] -14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They might still have some sort of intersex condition like Caster Semenya's.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who, btw, should never have lost her chance to stay in competition. Her testosterone levels are no more an advantage than Michael Phelps height, wingspan, hand/feet size and his body producing less lactic acid which shortens his recovery time.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Being a champion athlete requires both determination and innate physical advantages. This is in some sense unfair to people who try as hard as the champions do but, through no fault of their own, lack the champions' physical advantages. Therefore you can argue that since there aren't things like basketball leagues for short people, there shouldn't be separate competitions for men and women either. This is ultimately a matter of opinion, but I expect that you will have a hard time convincing the public. There are separate competitions, and while that's the case, it makes no sense to allow a person with the specific set of innate physical advantages that men have over women to compete in the women's competition. The whole point of having a women's competition is to prevent that.

Caster Semenya is entirely unexceptional by the standards of male runners. For example, she won first place in the Women's 800 metres race at the 2009 World Championships with a time of 1:58.66, which would have gotten her 47th place (out of 48) in the men's heats. She would therefore not even run in the semifinals. The winner of the men's race had a time of 1:45.29, more than ten seconds less than hers. I don't see the appeal of watching her win only because she is allowed to compete against women with much lower levels of testosterone than she has.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t see the appeal of watching her win only because she is allowed to compete against women with much lower levels of testosterone than she has.

Let's try adding your first argument to your second and see how it sounds.

"I don’t see the appeal of watching them win only because they are allowed to compete against people much shorter than they are."

A genetic predisposition to success in a particular sport is either a problem for all sports or none of them.

If you are arguing that the current categories are what they are then testosterone shouldn't be a factor unless you are positing that testosterone level has a threshold past which you are male.

The whole point of having a women’s competition is to prevent that.

The whole point of having a women's competition is to separate "men" from "women", if the point was to prevent unbalanced categories we'd be basing the categories on things that were important to the perceived integrity of the sport.

You could also argue that historically ( in the west at the very least ) it was partially to stop "women" from competing in "men's" competitions, not because of a difference in physicality but because of a difference in societal expectations.

it makes no sense to allow a person with the specific set of innate physical advantages that men have over women to compete in the women’s competition.

Again, lets switch the subject of your phrase

"it makes no sense to allow a person with the specific set of innate physical advantages that tall people have over short people to compete in the short peoples competition."

This is not a good argument.

As you said the theoretical solution to this is to based the brackets/categories on things other than biological sex, something that can be measured reliably and precisely, but also as you said , good luck convincing the public/advertisers to switch at this point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

You could also argue that historically ( in the west at the very least ) it was partially to stop "women" from competing in "men's" competitions, not because of a difference in physicality but because of a difference in societal expectations.

Or sometimes it was just done to stop women from beating men.

In the 1992 Olympics, a woman won gold in the mixed sex skeet shooting category, beating male competitors.

In 1996 women were barred from the erstwhile mixed event, but did not get a separate category either. Only from the 2000 Olympics a separate women's skeet shooting event was established.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're assuming that testosterone levels are the only thing that affects the outcome. It is not. Nor is it the strongest indicator of who will win. Stop being narrow minded and singular in your assessment.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's the biggest factor that affects the outcome when serious athletes compete. The most athletic people with standard female levels of testosterone will be nowhere near as good at most sports as the most athletic people with standard male levels of testosterone. That's why I pointed out that Semenya’s first place finish in the women's race would have been 47th place in the men's. The fastest women at that competition were about as fast as the slowest men.

There's also the famous incident where 203rd-ranked German Karsten Braasch beat Serena Williams and Venus Williams back-to-back at the 1998 Australian Open.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's the biggest factor that affects the outcome when serious athletes compete.

You have zero scientific proof of that.

Come back if you ever find any.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How many different sports where the best women are significantly worse than the best men would I have to list before you were convinced? Because it's almost all sports...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Conjecture is not scientific proof.

Science is undecided on whether high testosterone levels give women an edge in sports. Many successful male athletes have comparatively low testosterone levels

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The relationship of testosterone levels with sprint performance in young professional track and field athletes

Males with the highest testosterone levels were significantly faster in the 20 m (p = 0.033) and 30 m (p = 0.014) sprint trials compared to males with lower testosterone levels.

Effects of moderately increased testosterone concentration on physical performance in young women: a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled study

The study supports a causal effect of testosterone in the increase in aerobic running time as well as lean mass in young, physically active women.

Circulating Testosterone as the Hormonal Basis of Sex Differences in Athletic Performance

There is a wide sex difference in circulating testosterone concentrations and a reproducible dose-response relationship between circulating testosterone and muscle mass and strength as well as circulating hemoglobin in both men and women. These dichotomies largely account for the sex differences in muscle mass and strength and circulating hemoglobin levels that result in at least an 8% to 12% ergogenic advantage in men.

Female hyperandrogenism and elite sport

Together, these findings indicate that, in female athletes, even normal levels of endogenous androgens are positively correlated to lean mass and physical performance.

This is what I found after looking for just a few minutes. I'm honestly not sure why I'm doing this, because the positive effect of testosterone on athletic performance is a well-established fact. That's why some athletes try to cheat by injecting testosterone, and why people with XY chromosomes but total androgen insensitivity develop a female phenotype (although they are infertile). I really have no idea why you think that science is undecided on this topic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Most of the studies you linked are focused on men. The evidence regarding women is more tenuous.

Testosterone levels are generally linked to muscle size and strength, as well as higher haemoglobin concentration and thus better oxygen uptake. It has also been associated with more competitiveness in men. In terms of competitiveness, testosterone influences men's tendency to take more risks, both within and beyond sports.

There is limited research on how testosterone affects women (or how oestrogen affects men). Men and women generally do not have overlapping ranges of testosterone. In her book Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women, Maggie Mertens writes that averages can mask the great diversity of hormone ranges.

There isn't a clear linear relationship between testosterone levels and performance, says Mertens, a journalist focusing on sports and gender. "In fact, a lot of very elite male athletes have pretty low testosterone levels overall on average." One endocrinology study found low testosterone concentrations in one-quarter of men competing in 12 of the 15 Olympic sports analysed. And Mertens says even women with hyperandrogenism, who can have testosterone levels that reach typical male ranges, don't have the same level of performance as men.

Emphases mine.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

*She. Please don't misgender her, it plays right into these transphobes' hands of questioning her gender.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not saying "they" to avoid specifying gender. I'm saying "they" because there are two boxers involved in this controversy.

The IBA said Khelif and fellow boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan had failed “to meet the required necessary eligibility criteria and were found to have competitive advantages over other female competitors.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why do you keep quoting an organization that has been discredited by the very article youre commenting on?

It seems like you want to appeal to an authority that has none. Quoting liars as a source of truth doesn't give the lies any weight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The IBA has not disclosed the nature of the tests conducted on Khelif and Yu-Ting. The results therefore are not conclusive, nor are they reproducible.

[–] PapstJL4U 2 points 4 months ago

The IBF, headed by russion dude, came up with this undiaclosed "test" three days after the algerian boxer beat an undefeated russian boxer.

The IBF was so openly corrupt, that the IOC kicked them and 20+ national boxing feds left IBF and created a new organization.