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

So he has no agency? No brain? No say in whether to fight females??

Stunning cop out

That’s a remarkably definitive statement. It means that you are categorically stating that neither Kellie Harrington nor Amy Broadhurst have vaginas.
On a subject matter as sensitive as this nuance matters.

If that is the case you should have no issue deconstructing my post and showing me where I am wrong.

My apologies. I should have written two sentences to help with comprehension. The proven misogynist is Elon Musk.
There is, however, a certain irony in your statement that you don’t want to deconstruct my statement while attempting to deconstruct my statement.
As I have said previously this issue is much more complex than some posters would care to admit. For those with rare conditions, people really need to show a little more compassion. We can argue fairness regarding sport but someone who was told she was female all her life and wasn't trying to game the system or live any other way than she has always been living doesn't deserve the treatment she's been getting.

Gavin Cooney, one of our top sports journalists offers his thoughts. Clearly he doesn't know as much as some posters here.

https://www.the42.ie/paris-olympics-6460785-Aug2024/

Meanwhile, too many people were too willing to believe what they were told in Paris when it came to the stories of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting.

Last year, the International Boxing Association (IBA) banned both boxers on the eve of their medal matches at the world championships for failing gender eligibility tests, but when the IOC confirmed both would fight in Paris, all hell broke loose.

Khelif in particular became the subject of an astonishingly intense level of global scrutiny, tossed into the global culture wars and ultimately subject to the ridicule of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Media outlets who should know better flung themselves into the story, accusing the IOC of an outrageous violation of the sanctity of female sports and of threatening the safety of the two boxers’ opponents. Amid the clamour and the outrage, facts were ignored, to the point the Boston Globe apologised for a headline incorrectly describing Khelif as transgender.

Too few people paused for breath to acknowledge their source for this story: the disgraced and Russian-backed IBA, who have been excommunicated by the IOC. The IBA also repeatedly shirked multiple opportunities to clarify the facts around the case. Why had they suddenly banned the fighters years after they first started competing under the IBA’s auspices? What specifically were the tests performed on the two fighters?

So here was an outlaw organisation making claims backed by flimsy evidence against fighters during an Olympics they were motivated to undermine. The IOC, meanwhile, didn’t do enough to try and quell the scale of the story, shrugging their shoulders and pointing to each of the boxers’ passports as their justification for allowing them to fight. By the time the IOC brought out a statement accentuating the IBA’s credibility issues, the story was already out of control.

The IBA then got a free afternoon’s propaganda when they hosted a farcical press conference at which president Umar Kremlev spoke Russian via video link from Moscow to reporters in a building literally bearing the title Hall of Mirrors.

There are vital discussions to be had around intersex athletes in women’s sport, with the ultimate ambition to preserve the sanctity and safety of female sport. But personalising it two fighters on the word of the disgraced IBA during an Olympic Games is not the way to do it. We don’t know about the fighters’ respective biological make-ups: all we knew about this story is that we did not know enough to leap to any firm conclusions.

Many sports governing bodies have drafted policy and regulations around both transgender and intersex athletes, acknowledging how difficult it is to balance inclusion against competitive fairness. But the IOC, as a pop-up governing body for boxing at the Olympics, didn’t have any such policy for boxing.

Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting were caught in the public crossfire of two warring sports bodies, and the failure of the IBA and IOC to come together to share information and discussions in the interests of their wellbeing condemned the fighters to a horrifying fortnight in the public eye.

here was an outlaw organisation making claims backed by flimsy evidence

Maybe someone else has mentioned it but it's not as if the IBA did the testing. The DNA tests were handled by independent national laboratories, certified and accredited by the international Court of Arbitration for Sport. This is the same body that arbitrates drug testing for the Olympics.

So if someone claims that it's flimsy evidence, then they have a bit a problem explaining why all other drug tests aren't also flimsy. Obviously they're only selectively flimsy - when they flag men cheating against women, not men cheating against other men. I mean you can't have men being unfairly treated, where would it end?

And remember the test results aren’t supposed to matter anyway because according to the IOC, and the media outlets that are hysterically backing them, biological sex is irrelevant in women’s sports. The IOC actually declared, out loud and to everyone's astonishment, that the sole criterion for eligibility to compete against women is that the box on their passport is marked with an “F”.

Advantages and disadvantages

*European Transplant and Dialysis Sport Federation (ETDSF)
*European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation (EHLTF)

We do know what his thinking was, because he said what he was thinking. That you’d like to think he was thinking what you think about what most people want, wasn’t it.

There's three categories, heart / lung transplant, dialysis, and open / other transplant. They make the point if a dialysis patient enters the open category they won't be eligible for a separate, dialysis competitor medal, (presumably they make this point because patients undergoing dialysis wouldn't be expected to compete against people who may have had transplants years ago) they have their own category but they can choose to compete on the open category if they want to.

Should someone who had a kidney or liver transplant be able to identify into the dialysis category?

I'd read it rather as the equivalent of them saying women are free to enter the open category, but if they do there's no medal for coming 'first of the women', they categorically don't say (the equivalent of) men are free to enter the women's category