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Yea. This competitor is not trans, was never male and is not a man and was assigned female at birth. If she has too much testosterone for the sport whatever, but people need to seriously think because so many people sound so ridiculous and uninformed.
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News at ten: athlete selected for Olympics despite having lost competitions before. In related news, man shouts at cloud.
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Khelif is a woman, has always been a woman. Lived her entire life as a woman. No trans surgery, no M to F medication, nothing. Just happens to be one of nature’s outliers.
The only proper question to ask is whether outliers should be excluded? This is a far more difficult question than most realise.
Every Olympic athlete is an outlier. Every one of them.
The only thing that makes this contentious is that the features of this syndrome include Y chromosomes.
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Of course you can update understanding of biology.
Couple of hundred years ago the main view of biologists was that black people were not fully human.
Human understanding was thankfully updated since then.
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I'm sure there will be a few trans campaigners who would demand that a Mike Tyson level competitor be allowed to compete in transwomen sports after reassignment, but that would dangerous to all involved and I suspect it would not be a particularly popular option even with a lot of campaigners. But it would also be dangerous for a transman to get in the ring with Mike Tyson in the mens divisions.
Until the technology advances to the point that a trans person is indistinguishable to a cis person I think for speed / strength events - particularly at elite level - new categories should be introduced. I realise that might in itself cause more bigotry for a while, but advancements in anything often need a few steps back before they go forward. When the Paralympics were introduced there were questions raised about whether injured / diseased people should be doing such a thing (thankfully no social media in those days), but it is now here to stay.
What we absolutely do not need is a bunch of eijits shouting "trans" at competitors just because they have unusual ability or a medical condition that gives an advantage etc etc. 25 years ago the people shouting "trans" now would be shouting "steroids!" at them, often with the same level of evidence...
That's as stupid as the "reds under the bed" McCarthy approach.
This shouldn't even be an issue in sports where strength / speed are not the deciding factor. There is literally no sensible reason why darts / snooker / chess etc are segregated still.
Although I am absolutely sure that at some point we'll get some bellend arguing against a trans snooker player for reasons that don't go further than "I don't like it, I demand you listen to me" nonsense.
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Chess isn't segregated. There are women's events and open events. Open events are open to everybody. There are no "men only" chess events, at least definitely not at elite level.
Chess obviously does still suffer from the fact that women's only events remain a necessity, sadly that has far more to do with the historic failings of the (entirely male dominated) chess community to make women feel welcome, included, and valued. However there is no legislation to exclude the next Judit Polgar from competing with the best of the men. Cultural and misogynistic bullshit, perhaps but not the rules!