Tovarich EmmyNoether on Nostr: First off totally false analogy. There is no reason to believe that male puberty ...
First off totally false analogy.
There is no reason to believe that male puberty conveys a 160% advantage in political debating skills. It does, however, give boxers a 160% advantage in punching force.
Second, it's more likely that Khelif has 5-ARD than Swyer's syndrome.
Sport is played with bodies, not minds or socialisation. We have women's sport because male puberty and its associated adrogenising effects convey such a massive sporting advantage that women would never have a chance of winning anything. Khelif has XY chromosomes. (The IBA is quite clear on this, and however dodgy their financial transactions may be, the lab they used is internationally recognised. Khelif's coaching team had the tests repeated by a second lab, and chose not to appeal.)
It is undoubtedly sad for Khelif (though the DSD must have become apparent at puberty, and Khelif has spent 10 years continuing to box despite knowing about the DSD so my sympathy is distinctly limited in scope). But the key thing is that women - those of us with XX chromosomes who have spent hundreds of millenia getting the shitty end of the stick - are not support humans, non-playing characters in the life stories of men. We exist as humans in our own right.
And if the price to be paid for us having fair, safe sporting competitions of our own is a few XY individuals feeling sad, that's a price I'm prepared to pay.
There is no reason to believe that male puberty conveys a 160% advantage in political debating skills. It does, however, give boxers a 160% advantage in punching force.
Second, it's more likely that Khelif has 5-ARD than Swyer's syndrome.
Sport is played with bodies, not minds or socialisation. We have women's sport because male puberty and its associated adrogenising effects convey such a massive sporting advantage that women would never have a chance of winning anything. Khelif has XY chromosomes. (The IBA is quite clear on this, and however dodgy their financial transactions may be, the lab they used is internationally recognised. Khelif's coaching team had the tests repeated by a second lab, and chose not to appeal.)
It is undoubtedly sad for Khelif (though the DSD must have become apparent at puberty, and Khelif has spent 10 years continuing to box despite knowing about the DSD so my sympathy is distinctly limited in scope). But the key thing is that women - those of us with XX chromosomes who have spent hundreds of millenia getting the shitty end of the stick - are not support humans, non-playing characters in the life stories of men. We exist as humans in our own right.
And if the price to be paid for us having fair, safe sporting competitions of our own is a few XY individuals feeling sad, that's a price I'm prepared to pay.