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In light of plans to introduce this policy and the particular circumstances surrounding some boxers that competed at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, World Boxing has written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to inform it that Imane Khelif will not be allowed to participate in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes sex testing.

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[-] [email protected] 160 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Olympics testing sex means they will be testing women, and never men, it means they'll come up with a test that requires different representatives of different competing nations to agree a woman doesn't technically qualify as a woman despite her fully functioning uterus, and again they'll be invasive and humiliating and poor countries will have twice or more disqualified athletes, they will go after women of color twice as hard, and the more extreme countries they send these women back to live in will treat these women horrifyingly bad.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

In a way they do testing on men in sports all the time. They test for testosterone levels for one to see if the athlete is not utilizing Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs).

But I also haven’t read the article on the methodology they will be going to be utilizing.

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[-] [email protected] 119 points 2 weeks ago

I had a sex test done recently. The results were negative.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

Nice; how much sex do they need to have to pass the test?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It isn't about the quantity. Its about the quality.

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago

Unlikely, but it would be hilarious if some self-proclaimed alpha male found out the hard way that he is in fact intersex.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And those tiny number of edges cases need to be highlighted to show it does indeed happen. With biology, there is rarely ever truely binary. Biology is too mushy.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago

The only kind of sex testing I am okay with, is making sure condoms and sex toys work properly by actually using them on myself.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Alright, this one still fucks! Congratulations! Noe get out there and punch somebody!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Should I be wearing a condom on my fist when I punch Nazis? I don't wanna catch whatever they have...

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Brass knuckles are ribbed for your pleasure.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

Looks like I need to post this again.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

World Boxing has written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to inform it that Imane Khelif will not be allowed to participate in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes sex testing.

Phew, that was close, they almost had to pick a pronoun.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're gonna discover the same thing they did in the Olympics that made them stop testing.

It was making people uncomfortable how many of them had the wrong sex assigned at birth.

Women and men who had lived their entire lives as one sex realized they actually had the chromosomes for the opposite sex.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

There were stages and layers of sex testing within Olympics history, and every time they got mis-classifications they weren't expecting.

We figured out by the 50s that a gender binary was not imperically proveable. Too many variables that varied seperate from each other and often conflicted with each other.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago

Sex testing should be allowed but any time someone calls for sex testing and gets it incorrect the boxer 2should get one good punch in on them

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

"None of these guys can fuck, it's over for this sport."

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

You joke but this sort of shit does tend to lead so sexual harassment at the very least.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Just like penis inspection day in gym class

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not sure how the WBO is still recognized as a legitimate operation. They're horribly corrupt already and this is just another opportunity to fix fights rather than any commentary on current politics.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Wtf are they gonna do? Check if there is a vagina? Uterus? DNA? If you are insensitive to testosterone but with SRY (the gene responsible for sexual differentiation during fetal development), you end up AFAB, but without uterus. Is this woman enough? (You even lack testoserone)

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

You could read the article, it states it's a chromosome test. Not that I agree with this, but its a bad look to react without doing the bare minimum

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

They are going to find out chromosomes are super complicated. There are XY AFAB cis women and we don't actually know how common they are because we don't test for it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure there's XX AMAB as well. But what are they going to do with XXY or XYY?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

FTA:

The PCR test is a laboratory technique used to detect specific genetic material, in this case the SRY gene, that reveals the presence of the Y chromosome,

So it seems as though the test will basically be

if y_chromosome:
    return Male
else:
    return Female

I assume in both XXY and XYY, those would be classified as male under their criteria.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

So much pointless and cruel bullshit over fucking sport, and one of the stupidest sports no less.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile in the near future: world boxing to end needless sex testing to save costs.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Fucking assholes. From what is known about their sex test, it is similarly scientific to the "I know it when I see it" rule from the 1960s to determine if something is obscene. In other words, utter bullshit.

And all of this pretending to care about women while at the same time you have abuse scandals in sports every five minutes that never seem to have real consequences or result in positive change for the athletes.

Yeah, I don't believe you one bit when you say you want to protect women.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Athletes that are deemed to be male at birth, as evidenced by the presence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a difference of sexual development (DSD) where male androgenization occurs, will be eligible to compete in the male category.

Athletes that are deemed to be female at birth, as evidenced by the presence of XX chromosomes or the absence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a DSD where male androgenization does not occur, will be eligible to compete in the female category.

Oh wow. What's social construction? *points*

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The international rise of the Cult of Naturalism and the growing prevalence of their ur-eugenics pseudoscience is horrifying to watch. Like so many other actively harmful ideologies and policies I don’t see any non-violent solutions.

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