I was discussing this with my daughter last night, who has different views to me. And she made me think.
firstly khalif has breasts, we can clearly see she does. Which means physically she presents as female. Likely with female genitalia, I doubt she has had implants. Not as an athlete. She must have had female puberty to grow breasts,
any testes she had would be tiny and undescended. Buried inside her body. So likely giving little to no testosterone,
the gender eligibility tests have not been revealed, but based on those two facts above it’s likely she has a Y chromosome. However science says having a Y chromosome doesn’t automatically mean you are male every time. Intersex is a grey area on this, Simply science says most people with a y are men and then there is intersex.
intersex athletes will have been competing in sports and the olympics since time began. This is not something new, 1 to 2 people in a hundred are intersex. So they have always participated , just now science can test for chromosomes.
we don’t know if the two athletes have elevated testosterone, and there is clearly a lot of misinformation out there on the tests, and there is over 40 variations of intersex. With many people not knowing until they hit puberty, and some never knowing. Some people with a Y chromosome even have wombs. Simply they lack enough female hormones to reproduce
neither boxer is that good, yes khalif may win gold, but she’s been beaten many a time, she’s not a flawless track record, and every time she was beaten she was beaten by biological women.
so for me I don’t think it’s as simple as saying she’s a biological male. She isn’t a biological female it seems, even if she has breasts and a vagina. She could even have a womb, but if this is simply she’s a Y chromosome, then science absolutely doesn’t say this means she’s automatically a biological man, science makes exceptions for intersex, basically she’s biologically intersex, like millions of others, a very difficult and grey area.