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In light of plans to introduce this policy and the particular circumstances surrounding some boxers that competed at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, World Boxing has written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to inform it that Imane Khelif will not be allowed to participate in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes sex testing.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 160 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

Olympics testing sex means they will be testing women, and never men, it means they'll come up with a test that requires different representatives of different competing nations to agree a woman doesn't technically qualify as a woman despite her fully functioning uterus, and again they'll be invasive and humiliating and poor countries will have twice or more disqualified athletes, they will go after women of color twice as hard, and the more extreme countries they send these women back to live in will treat these women horrifyingly bad.

[–] ALilOff@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

In a way they do testing on men in sports all the time. They test for testosterone levels for one to see if the athlete is not utilizing Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs).

But I also haven’t read the article on the methodology they will be going to be utilizing.

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[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 119 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had a sex test done recently. The results were negative.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nice; how much sex do they need to have to pass the test?

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unlikely, but it would be hilarious if some self-proclaimed alpha male found out the hard way that he is in fact intersex.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only kind of sex testing I am okay with, is making sure condoms and sex toys work properly by actually using them on myself.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Alright, this one still fucks! Congratulations! Noe get out there and punch somebody!

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Looks like I need to post this again.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

World Boxing has written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to inform it that Imane Khelif will not be allowed to participate in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes sex testing.

Phew, that was close, they almost had to pick a pronoun.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

They're gonna discover the same thing they did in the Olympics that made them stop testing.

It was making people uncomfortable how many of them had the wrong sex assigned at birth.

Women and men who had lived their entire lives as one sex realized they actually had the chromosomes for the opposite sex.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There were stages and layers of sex testing within Olympics history, and every time they got mis-classifications they weren't expecting.

We figured out by the 50s that a gender binary was not imperically proveable. Too many variables that varied seperate from each other and often conflicted with each other.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That word is empirically - by experiment or observation

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[–] match@pawb.social 44 points 1 week ago

Sex testing should be allowed but any time someone calls for sex testing and gets it incorrect the boxer 2should get one good punch in on them

"None of these guys can fuck, it's over for this sport."

[–] ryokimball@infosec.pub 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] scott@lemmy.org 24 points 1 week ago

You joke but this sort of shit does tend to lead so sexual harassment at the very least.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just like penis inspection day in gym class

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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not sure how the WBO is still recognized as a legitimate operation. They're horribly corrupt already and this is just another opportunity to fix fights rather than any commentary on current politics.

[–] mat@jlai.lu 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wtf are they gonna do? Check if there is a vagina? Uterus? DNA? If you are insensitive to testosterone but with SRY (the gene responsible for sexual differentiation during fetal development), you end up AFAB, but without uterus. Is this woman enough? (You even lack testoserone)

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could read the article, it states it's a chromosome test. Not that I agree with this, but its a bad look to react without doing the bare minimum

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They are going to find out chromosomes are super complicated. There are XY AFAB cis women and we don't actually know how common they are because we don't test for it.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago (16 children)

So much pointless and cruel bullshit over fucking sport, and one of the stupidest sports no less.

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