Boxer Imane Khelif appeals to Court of Arbitration over World Boxing’s genetic sex test decision
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/01/imane-khelif-appeals-cas-boxing
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/01/imane-khelif-appeals-cas-boxing
11 Comments
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 65 pts · 1y
Isn’t this chick, like, not trans at all? I don’t get why shes being dragged into this culture war insanity, unless I’m wrong.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y
Yes she is cis. Conservatives only care about women in sports as long as they turn them on
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 34 pts · 1y
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 1y
Jesus. Imagine being this girl. Seriously fuck the people harassing her right now.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
This isn’t an example of transphobia getting out of hand. This is what it is. Just an excuse to bully people.
It's gatekeeping femininity. Think — when was the last time a TERF got upset about a cis woman being harassed or beaten-up for using a women's restroom but appearing too butch? Why aren't they upset when trans men (that they think are confused women) get beaten up for using the women's restroom?
The cruelty is the point.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
Yep a lot of these "trans-investigations" are an unholy mix of weaponized racism and sexism mixed with wrongly targeted transphobia.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 1y
Because people are way, way worse at spotting trans people than they think they are. And they’re really bad at statistics.
Cis women are literally half the population, so even if you assume 95% of cis women look so feminine that nobody could mistake them for male, that still means you’re roughly 10x more likely to run into a ‘masculine looking’ cis woman than a trans woman period, regardless of how masculine or feminine she looks to anyone.
Zacsau@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 1y
It would be tough to be any women in sports right know because depending on what they dictate a women is will determine if she can compete. Like sports are all about genetics advantage at the highest level, be a women and have a bit to much testosterone oops to bad banned!
Laser@feddit.org · 22 pts · 1y
It's funny how the bigots insist that only what your birth certificates states is relevant for anything except for when they don't like what it says.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Poor woman. This must be awful for her. These corrupt assholes should be ashamed of themselves.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 9 pts · 1y
Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.
Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
If I remember correctly the tests themselves were questionable, with sketchy Russian interests involved. She might not even be intersex, simply caught up in a fucked up intersection of geopolitics and culture war bs.