All boxers, including Algeria's Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well frankly, there's a whole can of worms to be had about how people should be categorized. A different league for distinct height ranges? Different leagues based on ACTN3? There's a whole bunch of uneven biological factors that competitors had no control over, should gender be the only one so broadly recognized?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Almost every sport does actually have only "women" and "free for all" categories, very few have a "men" only one.

    And it usually exists only because otherwise there simply would be no female competitors. One example is chess - the three best women have world rankings of #143, #250 and #271.

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