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Ollie Parks's avatar

Haven't Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei been mired in controversy because each has a disorder of sexual identity? If so, you would never know it from the Guardian story that's linked in this piece.

What's crazy is that both have XY chromosomes, which should be dispositive, no?

Even though people with disorders of gender identity make up a fraction of a percent of the population, one would think that by now there would be a consensus as to whether individuals having the characteristics of each such disorder are male or female. It shouldn't be necessary to treat each new individual as a unique case, should it?

Honestly, the Guardian's reporting here is so strained and patently ideologically biased that I imagine it must be what passes for journalism in countries where state media runs roughshod over free speech.

Perhaps I'm missing part of the International Boxing Association's (IBA) story, but the IBA's current predicament as reported in the Guardian ("the IBA has been banned from running the Olympic boxing tournament in Paris because of long-running questions surrounding governance issues and a series of judging scandals") reminds me of the way the authoritarians suppress dissident organizations by entangling them in ginned-up controversies and bogus legal proceedings.

It seems that what's really going on is that the IBA has been sidelined because it defends women in sports against faux female competitors, and the IOC does not.

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The 80’s Called.'s avatar

IOC need to be called out on the world stage for injustice to women.

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