…I could have told you that 🤷
Source: https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1984574165643403370
Not my usual kind of source (Xitter), but I want any centrists out there who ask trans people to “just get along” / compromise with actual hate groups that want them eradicated to know that it doesn’t work.
There is no such thing as a reasonable bigot, by definition.
This is a lie. Wikipedia links to no fewer than 3 sources that confirm this is a lie. I will be blocking you.
“Those cheering fans have embraced Khelif throughout her run in Paris even as she faced an extraordinary amount of scrutiny from world leaders, major celebrities and others who have questioned her eligibility or falsely claimed she was a man.” – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-fights-for-olympic-gold-after-enduring-abuse-fueled-by-misinformation
'The participation of Algeria’s Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin has proved controversial given they were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships.
“Let’s be very clear, we are talking about women’s boxing,” said Bach at Saturday’s daily IOC briefing.
"We have two boxers who are born as a woman, who have been raised as a woman, who have a passport as a woman and who have competed for many years as a woman.
“This is the clear definition of a woman. There was never any doubt about them being a woman.”’ – https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c28e88jdprno
'Khelif and a second boxer, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, fell foul of IBA eligibility rules […].
[…] a March 2023 IBA board meeting stated that “the athletes do not meet one of the eligibility criteria”, without stating which one.’ – https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/who-is-algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-2024-08-03/
Right, they were incorrectly assigned female at birth and raised as women but are biologically male, because
I’m confused as to why you think those quotes support your point. The sex testing was done by an accredited lab, and is the eligibility criteria they do not meet.
The sources people cite for Imane Khelif being biologically male are:
People have claimed sex testing was done by an accreddited independent lab, but chasing that citation just leads to the IBA saying she was disqualified without elaborating why, which doesn’t support the claim.
There’s no actual evidence to support the speculation. That doesn’t mean it’s untrue, but does mean it’s unreasonable to present it as fact - there’s just as much evidence for alternative speculation, e.g. that she bribed the opponent to forfeit and was disqualified by the IBA because they found she’d bribed people to forfeit in the past, and it would be just as unreasonable to spread that rumour I just invented around as if it were fact.
JK Rowling/IBA/etc don’t matter, they’re just noise. The sex test is what matters. Chasing that citation shows this
https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2025/6/1/xxyetyl1aewfij823hnfdrsbi1sqjm
And note this correction (from the IOC!), which straightforwardly implies that it’s a DSD case
The weight of evidence strongly points towards Imane Khelif being biologically male. It doesn’t mean the IBA isn’t corrupt, JK Rowling isn’t terrible etc, but none of that matters.
An article with half a screenshot and a claim that they’re the only media outlet that’s seen the half a screenshot isn’t the slam dunk you’re presenting it as. There’s no way to verify or debunk it, as they could have made it up or their source could have made it up, and if it weren’t made up, the legal consequences for publishing medical information like that would be worse than the consequences for just making it up.
If it is real, the article’s still disengenuously pushing its own narrative, as the medical profession would still consider someone with those results a woman when the rest of their phenotype resembled a woman, but the article claims otherwise. There’s no single test that definitively determines biological sex as there are too many factors that influence it, and about 1% of people are some kind of intersex, so would exhibit a mix of traits or have something they could be tested for that gave an obviously wrong answer.
Either way, this whole discussion only strengthens my original point about the integrity of women’s sports not being undermined by trans athletes - they’re still permitted and not winning anything despite that, and other people generally recognised as cisgender women have bigger advantages while still being able to compete and having been able to compete since the inception of women’s sport.
I don’t think that’s the takeaway, unfortunately. As stated above, no cis woman won any medals in the 2016 Rio 800m. That would likely remain true if not for the winners subsequently no longer being considered eligible for the women’s division.
The test result is a strong indicator that Khelif is biologically male, but not the only piece. As shown in the tweet above, the IOC itself corrected itself specifically about it not being a DSD case. Why would they call that out, if it wasn’t a DSD case? Also, that test result is not the only actual piece of evidence, here is a separate test specifying that Khelif has 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency, which is a male DSD.
Biological sex is actual very straightforward, it is entirely defined by gamete size. People whose bodies are organized around production of the large gamete size are female, and people whose bodies are organized around production of the small gamete size are male. People often get confused here, because there’s lots of variation in sexual phenotype and genotype that are interesting in their own right, but don’t affect how biological sex is defined. Those are just variations within a sex, which is why intersex can be a confusing term.
Which isn’t to deny that gender exists, because that’s the whole point of separate gender and sex. It captures a whole different lived experience.