Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.

Semenya can think what he likes about himself, but his test results show that he is male with a male-specific DSD, 46XY 5-ARD. That has been officially validated in his CAS appeal, so is not in any doubt at all, unlike Imane Khelif, about whom there is merely a strong suspicion. (Publicly at least - it seems likely that the IOC are aware of the actual results, but they have not been made public for now.)

Using an extremely rare case of an xy person with a dsd and a uterus who was able to gestate a child and deliver by c section through extensive medical intervention as proof that xy doesn't equal male at all is a bit silly. That person is a biological anomaly. Some people are born with one leg, doesn't mean humans aren't bipedal. For the purposes of sporting events, a chromosome test is a pretty reliable way to determine the sex of a person and whether they should be competing in the male or female category.

Using an example of person with with a vagina and a uterusis a bit silly? Very strange conclusion. But st the end of the day everyone is entitled to an opinion. If people want to think people with a vagina, and a uterus are male then they are entitled to think that.

I still cannot see how 'strength' would make an amateur boxer any better, assuming that they are already strong and working out in the gym every day. Amateur boxing is mostly about skill, speed, feinting, good footwork, excellent reaction times, clever defence and so on.

The idea that a biological male would have some sort of massive inbuilt advantage over a female amateur boxer and even pose a physical threat to their health and safety is clearly nonsensical. Khelif has lost a load of amateur bouts, including to Kellie Harrington and Amy Broadhurst.

You’re not seeing it because you’re thinking of strength as knock out power. Which is not the benefit.

You mention speed. Where do you think speed comes from? The ability to shift your whole bodyweight quickly? Muscular power.

“Assuming they are working out in the gym”. Why would they be working out in the gym if being stronger wasn’t a benefit?

Why do weight divisions exist? Why are the sexes split? You’ve already been unable to answer, but worth restating.

Using Khelif as evidence is pretty bad logic.
1. She may not be a biological male, and

2. Somebody losing doesn’t mean they didn’t have an unfair advantage.

Assuming you are are male, you have a strength advantage. If you entered a women’s weightlifting division, would you have won? I doubt it. Your unfair advantage is offset by your skill deficit.

If Khelif is biologically male, the fact they lost to Kellie simply highlights they can’t cut it technically.

It is nothing to do with gender ideology. DSD refers to sex not gender.

I’m not sure why you think sex specific means only male. It doesn’t. It can happen with either sex, but each (or most) case(s) have a specific sex.

Nikki Hiltz is female but identifies as trans and non-binary, neither of which has any relevance for sport. So, no issue there.

How come Kellie Harrington and Amy Broadhust didn't feel the weight of her devastating punches when defeating her? In fact, Amy Broadhurst has been going out of her way this week to try and defend Khelif from the massive social media pile on against her.

Kellie Harrington didn't notice anything unusual about her at the last Olympics other than that she was lanky with a long reach and an awkward opponent to box.

If you dont get hit you dont feel the power, your assertion about strength not mattering in amateur boxing is absolute nonsense, it may not be as much a factor as technical ability but it is a big factor all the same.

i watched Kheilf against the Hungarian Hamori earlier in the tournament and simple jabs were rocking Hamori back and putting her off her rhythm allowing Khelif to follow up and score more points. It’s clear Kheilf’s power is a huge advantage.

Harrington and Broadhurst are superior technical boxers and were able to avoid and dominate. That doesn’t negate Kheilf’s unfair advantage.

Bottom line is that Khelif is a low level male boxer but is able to compete and win against elite women due to power and speed advantages.

Could you explain how it is "hysterical" to describe a person with XY chromosomes punching people with XX chromosomes as anything other than "a man beating up women"?

The IOC decided in 1999 - against the wishes of more than 80% of the female athletes asked about it - to remove eligibility tests for the female category, and to accept a mere inspection of documents instead. FINA and several other world governing bodies have reinstated sex tests. There's a very simple, sensible reason for that.

Cant do that as mistakes happen with children with DSD which only become obvious when kids hit teenage years.

If it went as you said then there would be no issue with Khelif as she was observed to be female at birth as children suffering with certain forms of DSD can be even though they have internal testes which becomes more obvious the older they get.

Nature disagrees with you, both in homo sapiens (citation needed)

and numerous other species. (We going down the clownfish route?)

There's very little reliable evidence that Khelif is female either. And since world governing bodies for other sports require a sex screening qualification such as a cheek swab, rather than a mere check of identity documents, the real question here is why the IOC refuse to do the same.

Do they accept a national team's declarations of weight categories or do they insist on weigh-ins themselves? What about drug tests - do they take the teams' word on that, or do they retest themselves if there is any suspicion (and sometimes randomly, with no particular grounds for suspicion)?

Why is the sex category different from the weight category, and requires (in the IOC's view) no protection against invalid registrations?