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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
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puffyisgood · 04/11/2024 15:37

it's a bit complicated, then: 'I'm a woman who just happens to be chromosomally etc male, and who just happens to refuse to ever conform to female gender norms, particularly those of my own culture/country'.

SensibleSigma · 04/11/2024 15:46

Male boxing coach? Love of football? Is that usual for women in that part of the world?

Even if you choose to ignore that the most feminine thing about him is his beautifully groomed eyebrows.

WarriorN · 04/11/2024 15:58

Piers Morgan and others have picked up on it now so it will become mainstream soon.

But Reduxx always get forgotten about being the initial news breakers when things like this happen.

SoiledMyselfDuringSomeTurbulence · 04/11/2024 16:18

YellowRoom · 04/11/2024 12:37

Proving a bloke is a bloke isn't private medical records. If he hadn't pretended to be female he wouldn't have had this problem.

Additionally, people's private medical matters also come up in the Paralympics and when they fail drugs tests. Top level athletes don't get the same type of privacy about their bodies as the rest of us can, and they know that going in. Strangers can turn up at their homes to watch them piss!

Helleofabore · 04/11/2024 16:41

puffyisgood · 04/11/2024 15:21

We're both speculating wildly here, but whilst I agree that IK's dress sense and general comportment probably do hint at a degree of 'living as a man'... it is, I suppose, possible that IK considered herself to be a 'male-identifying female' and therefore eligible to compete against women in the same way as other 'trans men' or 'non binary womb havers' in this Olympics, per the link below. the problem seems to be that IK was only half right in this consideration.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13701255/Hergie-Bacyadan-female-boxer-identifies-man-calls-fighters-fail-gender-tests-banned-Imane-Khelif-Lin-Yu-ting-Angela-Carini-Paris-Olympics.html

Puffy, I will wait patiently to see which competitors continue to play in any female boxing championship that excludes male people through a testing process in the future. There is plenty of speculation about quite a few of the boxers competing in the female competition. I suspect if sex testing came in and the regulations excluded male people who have had a virilised puberty, there might be a significantly different competitive field for the female boxers.

I am not going to speculate any further than that.

However, I remain unconvinced by Khelif's own actions that they believed they were female but I accept that other people are convinced that Khelif believes they are female.

Runsyd · 04/11/2024 16:49

heathspeedwell · 04/11/2024 13:13

This reminds me of how kind we all were about Caster Semenya years ago, and how we thought how terrible it must have been to be brought up as a girl and then suddenly find you are a man.

Then it became clear that men with 46 XY 5 ARD go through male puberty and their voices break and they develop typically male bodies (but with undescended testicles).

Then it emerged that Semenya was tested aged 18 and has known for a fact since then that he was male. Then he published a photo of himself in his autobiography wearing nothing but swimming trunks aged 15. Teenage girls generally don't share topless photos of themselves, or go topless swimming with their friends.

It's almost as if he always knew he was male but was happy to sort of pretend to be female when necessary to cheat women out of gold medals. I think Khelif has a similar have your cake and eat it attitude.

Absolutely this.

WarriorN · 04/11/2024 18:35

Reported On the same day Rutherford et al write a "letter to the editor" and call it a "paper," about being kind to males in sport.

Love Gia's response.... (Brian Cox's partner.)

x.com/giagia/status/1853464921654084005?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

Imane Khelif medical report reported in Reduxx
Theeyeballsinthesky · 04/11/2024 18:47

Adam Rutherford is a total embarrassment

love Gia

annejumps · 04/11/2024 18:50

Ah yes, the "Mandatory sex testing isn't feasible!" article comes out the same day as this news.

OldCrone · 04/11/2024 18:50

WarriorN · 04/11/2024 18:35

Reported On the same day Rutherford et al write a "letter to the editor" and call it a "paper," about being kind to males in sport.

Love Gia's response.... (Brian Cox's partner.)

x.com/giagia/status/1853464921654084005?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

Covered in the Independent here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/genetic-testing-sport-international-boxing-association-imane-khelif-b2640885.html

This 'paper' is a response to "an editorial by a group of scientists in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (SJMSS) proposed the introduction of sex chromosome testing amid what it described as a “growing concern” over the participation in female sport of athletes with an XY difference of sexual development (XY DSD)."

“The editorial gives the impression that such tests are straightforward – ‘individual consent, confidentiality, and dignity… simple cheek swab… standard medical care’, but these assurances ignore the enormous problems such a testing regime would generate,” the group wrote.

They argue that under the proposal for mandatory genetic testing for sport eligibility, “young athletes would not be presented with a genuine choice” and some would be subjected to invasive examination by gynaecologists.

“Consent is only a coercive offer: comply with the test or never participate in competitive women’s or girls’ sport, even at sub-elite level,” they wrote.

They also question who would pay for and produce the “worldwide army of counselling expertise” required to operate an ethically responsible genetic testing programme.

“For those undergoing follow-up clinical examination and genome sequencing….how would the devastation of young athletes’ personal identity and self-esteem, and the alarm caused to their families, be managed?” they wrote.

“The resultant duty of care of these athletes will fall to the sport federations mandating such assessments, without any realistic prospect of being fulfilled.”

According to them, sex testing would mean that some of these males would "never participate in competitive women’s or girls’ sport, even at sub-elite level", and their "personal identity and self-esteem" would be devastated if they were to undergo sex testing. Not a word about the effect on women and girls of having biological males taking their places in sport and sometimes inflicting harm on their female opponents.

Women don't seem to be fully human in the eyes of these misogynists.

Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics

Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this year’s Olympic Games

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/genetic-testing-sport-international-boxing-association-imane-khelif-b2640885.html

Maaate · 04/11/2024 18:50

There's also suggestions that IKs parents are blood relatives too, which can cause genetic issues - would that include DSD's

WarriorN · 04/11/2024 18:58

And it must be horrific to have it constantly plastered all over the news.

But if there had been honesty from the start (and I blame the coaches and spotters here) we would not have this situation.

WarriorN · 04/11/2024 18:59

BlairH_phd who also co authored is a trans athlete/ researcher it seems

WarriorN · 04/11/2024 18:59

A man.

PinkDreamer · 04/11/2024 19:01

He should be stripped of his medal. Jordan Chiles was stripped of her medal a few days after the Olympics (bronze medal for floor exercise, gymnastics) after a judges error so there’s no reason for him to keep his medal

annejumps · 04/11/2024 19:01

Maaate · 04/11/2024 18:50

There's also suggestions that IKs parents are blood relatives too, which can cause genetic issues - would that include DSD's

IIRC recruiters seek out places where DSDs like this one are likely because of this inbreeding.

Chersfrozenface · 04/11/2024 19:02

Maaate · 04/11/2024 18:50

There's also suggestions that IKs parents are blood relatives too, which can cause genetic issues - would that include DSD's

Consanguinity increases the risk of hereditary diseases including DSDs

There's a study published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2021, for a start, specifically on the molecular genetics

annejumps · 04/11/2024 19:02

OldCrone · 04/11/2024 18:50

Covered in the Independent here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/genetic-testing-sport-international-boxing-association-imane-khelif-b2640885.html

This 'paper' is a response to "an editorial by a group of scientists in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (SJMSS) proposed the introduction of sex chromosome testing amid what it described as a “growing concern” over the participation in female sport of athletes with an XY difference of sexual development (XY DSD)."

“The editorial gives the impression that such tests are straightforward – ‘individual consent, confidentiality, and dignity… simple cheek swab… standard medical care’, but these assurances ignore the enormous problems such a testing regime would generate,” the group wrote.

They argue that under the proposal for mandatory genetic testing for sport eligibility, “young athletes would not be presented with a genuine choice” and some would be subjected to invasive examination by gynaecologists.

“Consent is only a coercive offer: comply with the test or never participate in competitive women’s or girls’ sport, even at sub-elite level,” they wrote.

They also question who would pay for and produce the “worldwide army of counselling expertise” required to operate an ethically responsible genetic testing programme.

“For those undergoing follow-up clinical examination and genome sequencing….how would the devastation of young athletes’ personal identity and self-esteem, and the alarm caused to their families, be managed?” they wrote.

“The resultant duty of care of these athletes will fall to the sport federations mandating such assessments, without any realistic prospect of being fulfilled.”

According to them, sex testing would mean that some of these males would "never participate in competitive women’s or girls’ sport, even at sub-elite level", and their "personal identity and self-esteem" would be devastated if they were to undergo sex testing. Not a word about the effect on women and girls of having biological males taking their places in sport and sometimes inflicting harm on their female opponents.

Women don't seem to be fully human in the eyes of these misogynists.

I deactivated my X account but I'm sure Sharron Davies has plenty to say about the cheek swab which everyone seemed to be just fine with until 1999.

annejumps · 04/11/2024 19:03

annejumps · 04/11/2024 19:01

IIRC recruiters seek out places where DSDs like this one are likely because of this inbreeding.

Oh, furthermore as I think we figured out, this is what was being alluded to with the "living in the mountains" remark or whatever. Recruiters know there are pockets of cosanguination due to geographical features where a small population lives in an isolated place.

duc748 · 04/11/2024 19:06

“Consent is only a coercive offer: comply with the test or never participate in competitive women’s or girls’ sport, even at sub-elite level,” they wrote.

And this is different from drug-testing, how?

birdiesings · 04/11/2024 19:06

Some mistake surely! He was on the front cover of Vogue, that must mean he's a woman 😲

NotBadConsidering · 04/11/2024 19:10

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 04/11/2024 12:59

The gender ideologues will still not accept this though. They're too far down the rabbit hole.

Would be better if someone other than redduxx picked it up.

It became international news in the first place because Reduxx picked it up. They are a phenomenal group of fearless journalists who thoroughly investigate their stories, have them well sourced, and do so in the face of abuse from males who don’t want the truth to be revealed. They are the main reason we know about most of the “it’ll never happen” stories.

They deserve massive respect. It should the case of “I’ll only give it credence when Reduxx publish it” not the other way round. If so-called major news organisations or journalists from “proper” sources did their jobs properly, Reduxx wouldn’t have to. They deserve a Pulitzer or equivalent for everything they’ve done.

Grandmasswagbag · 04/11/2024 19:11

Well Quelle fucking surprise!

onlytherain · 04/11/2024 19:15

How exactly was this person "born a woman"?

I feel for IK, but they should not be allowed to compete in women's boxing.

Grandmasswagbag · 04/11/2024 19:19

Would add that I do have a certain level of sympathy with IK on a personal level. I'm sure they probably were raised as a girl, they may still believe they are a woman on some level..it cant be easy being born with a deformed genitals or dsd anywhere but especially in cultures that have even more rigid gender stereotypes. As a pro athlete they may have been brainwashed and fed all sorts of bollox by the teams around them, for they are often not the brightest of buttons. This is a mess if the IOC's making. But what can female boxers do? An international boycott only harms women's boxing presumably and achieves what the patriarchy clearly wants which is females not boxing for sport. These women won't get another shot as they are in their prime now.

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