World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxers - World Boxing
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World Boxing will introduce mandatory sex testing, to determine the eligibility of male and female athletes that want to take part in its competitions. The introduction of mandatory testing will be part of a new policy on “Sex, Age and Weight” to ensure the safety of all participants and deliver a competitive level playing field […]

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.

  • mel ♀@jlai.luEnglish
    196·
    2 months 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)

    • 474D@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      2 months 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

      • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 months 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.