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by dispin 1y ago
The article has some interesting technical detail about sex testing with regards to the female category in competitive sport. It's a case study in the challenges of maintaining this category in the face of attempts to bypass the spirit
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by dispin 2y ago
As I asked the other sceptical commenter: how exactly would you explain XY karyotype, testosterone levels in the male range, and male-typical physique - other than by the athletes being male? https://www.alamy.com/silver-med
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by dispin 2y ago
The available evidence shows that Khelif is indeed a male. See this thread for further detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025035
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by dispin 2y ago
Athletes competing on an elite level should certainly have their sex verified. In almost all cases this will be less intrusive than the anti-doping tests they're required to do; a simple cheek swab is sufficient for screening via karyo
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by dispin 2y ago
It's worth taking a step back to consider why we have separate categories for male and female sporting competitions, which is: the significant physical advantage that male development confers on an individual. If sports were mixed-sex,
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by dispin 2y ago
Do you have an alternative explanation for these test results, other than the three athletes being male? Keeping in mind that we know for a fact Semenya has 5-ARD, because this was revealed in a ruling published by the CAS.
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by dispin 2y ago
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/07/30/francine-niyonsabas-ol... > World Athletics testing found that Semenya, Niyonsaba and Wambui all had the 46,XY karyotype and produce levels of testosterone in the mal
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by dispin 2y ago
> https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphob... This is a very misleading blog post. All evidence revealed so far indicates that Khelif is a male who was erroneously assumed to be female at birth d
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by dispin 2y ago
That is a non sequitur.
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by dispin 2y ago
As I understand it, these are the major pieces of evidence: - Karotype testing of Khelif (and the other disqualified boxer, Lin) showing XY chromosomes, reported by sports journalist Alan Abrahamson who's seen the lab reports and cover
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by dispin 2y ago
"Dictating to trans people about _how they get to live_ is the process of saying they can't co-exist in this world. It is the insinuation that they are _separate but equal_." This isn't about "how they get to live
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by dispin 2y ago
Culture seems to be heading away from this, not towards. At least according to polling of public opinion.
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by dispin 2y ago
Right, so it's not analogous to women wanting to be called Mr, which is an already-existing word used to refer to men.
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by dispin 2y ago
Please could you explain in more detail why you think this is analogous? I'm not seeing it. All you've done is slot some different words into his tweet and asserted that the meaning is similar. How, exactly? Also, your original cl
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by dispin 2y ago
No he isn't, here's a recent tweet of his that explains his position: "This also highlights the huge difference between the "LGB" and the "T''. The gay rights movement just asked society to leave the