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The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports (theintercept.com)

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

These people think she's not fuckable so therefore she's not a woman, and furthermore think women's sports are worthless unless they see the athletes as fuckable. That's it. It's patriarchy with a new coat of paint.

The two genders: male and fuckable

[+] [email protected] -28 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I think it's because they think the trans woman still has biologically male factors that make the competition not a competition.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

They think she's not fuckable and therefore she's not a woman. All the proof I need is the literal fact that she's not trans.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah fair enough. I looked her up on Wikipedia and verified. However she failed sex eligibility test in 2023 IBA.

Khelif had been disqualified by the IBA hours before the gold medal match in 2023, reportedly for having high levels of testosterone.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Worth noting that the IBA is not considered credible by the IOC, is considered highly influenced by Russian corruption, and that this failure came just after she defeated a Russian.

Also, despite whatever tests she may have failed in the past, she passed eligibility tests to compete in these Olympics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What tests did the Olympics do?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://boxing.athlete365.org/qualification-system-and-rules/

Also worth noting that anyone who thinks Algeria would send a trans woman to the Olympics is pretty ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, we were expecting a clue that transphobe halfwits are ignorant. Can they even define what trans is? I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know it involves a test of testosterone levels. I don't know the limits of those tests, how much testosterone means a person isn't a woman anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And as I read some where here, if testosterone levels is unfair advantage why aren't there limits in the men's league too? It is so just they police women bodies (cis and trans alike). Here is the original comment but I did not record the username, so sadly I can't credit them

If testosterone is a PED and it doesn’t matter if the athlete is cis or not, then there should be a hard limit for both male and female athletes to ensure fairness. If too much testosterone is only a problem for women then clearly it’s a sexist attempt to police women’s bodies. Every human body produces some amount of testosterone, either too much is an unfair advantage or it isn’t.

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