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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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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just like penis inspection day in gym class

[–] lando55@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Ah good times. I wonder why coach needed to take pictures though.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 71 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days 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.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 3 days 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.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What? Really? Didnt know this.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_and_intersex_athletes_at_the_Olympic_Games

The history of sex testing for sports is really interesting, for me it's interesting because despite almost 100 years of the practice not a single "male imposter" has ever been found.

And I was mistaken. Like another comment on this post says they just stopped testing in men's sports.

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 days ago (30 children)

Looks like I need to post this again.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 161 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (16 children)

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.

[–] ALilOff@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days 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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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 7 points 2 days ago

The peak of being afraid of girls

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 15 points 3 days ago (16 children)

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

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[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 119 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 56 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 60 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days 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.

[–] match@pawb.social 44 points 4 days 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

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