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

TBF it's not a bad article. For once they've quoted someone like Emma Hilton, and also Reem Alsalem UN rapporteur for violence against women.
However they've been a little disingenuous in describing Emma Hilton's links with "Sex Matters", but not that their opposing "expert", Alun Williams was part of Caster Semenya's appeal to the CAS.

They also fail to explain that sex screening (the cheek swab) is not intended to be the only test for 100% of all women: rather, it is a speedy, inexpensive and non invasive way of sorting out the vast majorithy of candidates are proven to be women.

For the small number for whom the cheek swab gives an unsatisfactory response, further tests can then be done on those individuals.

And the idea that this would be too intrusive, in a context where athletes ahve to urinate in front of a stranger in order to prove they have not used someone else's urine to escape dug doping, is laughable.

Because it just identifies as being up to date

Khelif just won the gold with another 5-0 win. Didn’t lose a round all tournament.

I am struggling to understand how Khelif has emerged as this unstoppable fighting machine this Olympics, given she lost nine fights before them, and previous opponents AFAIK did not claim she had unnatural punching power.

No because only the women’s category needs to be protected. The “male” category can be “open” without there being any harm done to men: if children or women wanted to take part in it, that would be up to them.

I didn’t disagree with any of that though - except that the “IF” bit is wrong: the results have been leaked and the two athletes concerned are indeed XY.

https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2024/8/5/fa9lt6ypbwx5su3z20xxnfzgtao0gy

At this stage the only thing stopping the results being published so we can all see them is that they are the legal property of Khelif and Lin, who have sent lawyer’s instructions preventing anyone from publishing them.

That, plus the fact that neither athlete chose to appeal their DQ to the independent appeals board tells us what those results were.

The results have been leaked a journalist that no one has heard of:"3 wire sports". This leak would have a lot more creditability if it was leaked to a recognised newspaper and not involving a Russian backed sports organisation. If they were going to leak the tests results it is questionable why they didnt leak to established media- a lot of right wing press would have confirmed the test results then.

There are definite red flags as you state but you are 100% believing the IBA when still doubts remain.

I would agree with everything you have said there about the boxers could clarify perform actiosn to remove the doubt

But you did state " the two athletes concernedvare indeed XY". And also your provocative banner does suggest you 100% believe the accusation. When there is still reasonable doubt given how unreliable and corrupt the iba is and the strangeness of leaking to only one journalist.

And by coincidence………..2 of the few women that win gold have an extremely rare disorder…..

The "Khelif is a man" claims completely ignores the fact that it would literally be impossible for her to compete against men in a boxing competition. Presumably the passport ID criteria would be seen as even more pressing and relevant for entry than any chromosome tests : no person who is legally listed as one gender can show up in an Olympic sport with another gender.

The strength argument was addressed in that BBC article I linked to a little further up. Science is divided on this : some scientists feel such an athlete would have no physical advantage, others suspect they would have. The article points out there is a complete lack of data on this. Virtually no studies have been conducted to test how strong females who have male chromosomes are compared to other females.

I can't imagine that's the usual way that Muslim males would celebrate with females, or consider appropriate behaviour. They know