@Oldcrone I am not clear whether you are suggesting these players are XX or not or whether as claimed more than once on here and in other threads that there is a claim that these athletes are XX.
I have not seen this and if it exists, I would like to read it.
You wrote: "Therefore the assumption is that they claim to be XX." The eligibility rules referred to by IOC, section 1.4 and 3.1 do not refer to chromosones or testosterone or indeed, sex or identity with the exception of stating that women should not be pregnant.
The IOC inclusion framework states, and repeates several.times, that identity is the key factor in determining eligibility for the female category and that no advantage should be assumed from either trans identity or sex characteristics.
This undermines the logic that XX must be the basis for inclusion in the female category and any deductions or assumptions around this.
The recent guidelines directing journalists not to speculate on the gender or sex of athletes is further obscuring any facts around this case.
That said, the information available around the Zambian footballers is more transparent, these are DSD athletes who have chosen not to reduce their levels of testosterone. (Links elsewhere if you wish to search for them.) What is intriguing is the relative silence about the footballers.
Zambia are unlikely to progress and they haven't injured anyone, but they have caused untold damage to female football in 4 seperate countries and taken lucrative contrcts away from women, being the two most expensive players in the history of women's soccer.