The discussion online about this issue is borderline retarded. Women's rights, trans rights, yadda yadda yadda. The actual situation is a more interesting.
Imane Khelif was born a girl. She's not trans. Hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming care just isn't a thing in Algeria.
This isn't a situation like the college swimmer Lia Thomas who decided to change from male to female and compete against other women..
Now here is the interesting part: The olympic committee bases athlete eligibility on what gender their passport says and doesn't do genetic testing.
Another committee, the IBA tested her last year. She was disqualified from that tournament because it was believed the tests showed she was genetically male, but the IBA didn't release the results.
Here's the most likely situation:
She was born a girl, has a female anatomy, but also has something like Swyer Syndrome which gives her presenting female features, and male XY chromosomes. As she has grown, she didn't go through normal female puberty but instead exhibited more masculine development including more muscle and testosterone, etc. My guess is she doesn't have periods and is infertile. She's essentially a dude in a female body.
So, like 90% of the athletes in the olympics, she's a genetic freak. I mean Labron and Usain Bolt are both genetic freaks in their own right. Except we have a division for her type of genetic freakiness, it's called the male division.
It can't be a biological woman and have Y chromosome, because only males have an Y chromosome - it's how gender is determined. It's a guy with some genetic syndrome. If the debates online showed anything, it's that people failed biology hard.
What if you have a Y chromosome but are born with a vagina and no penis. How do you square that circle? Historically (at least before genetic testing) gender was determined by what you have between your legs.
What if you have a Y chromosome but are born with a vagina and no penis.
That's possible only if it is XXY, X0+XY or XX+XY mutation. In any case it could not be a woman. Woman is XX. Man is XY. Everything else, regardless of havimg vagina or penis or both, or none is a deviation. Mutant. And 100% not a woman.
There is no such thing as what now named "gender". There is only two biological sexes and rare mutations.
But really, completely another thing is important. It is absolutely clear and obvious that fucking "professional sports" slave owners intentionally search and enslave that rare mutants with a goal to cheat in "competitions" using advantage (larger strength, so much less training and mediacation necessary) of such mutants over woman. Having two of that extremely rare mutants in one competition proves undoubtedly that such search and enslavement done purposedly and intentionally.
Interesting that both mutants was not very succesfull in previous competitions with women, like they was brought to competition without any serious training in the hope that their advantage will be enough to win. But now looks like they are much more succesfull. This also proves that even a little (only few years) training allow mutants defeat normal women who spent all their life in endless work-outs.
Such mutations are extremely rare, around 0.007%, but they are thoroughly searched and used in "professional sports" since beginning of 20 century when sport become busines.
As for me, this is absolutely sick and disgusting. Search for people with such mutations and force them into sports to cheat over normal women.
The discussion online about this issue is borderline retarded. Women's rights, trans rights, yadda yadda yadda. The actual situation is a more interesting.
Imane Khelif was born a girl. She's not trans. Hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming care just isn't a thing in Algeria.
This isn't a situation like the college swimmer Lia Thomas who decided to change from male to female and compete against other women..
Now here is the interesting part: The olympic committee bases athlete eligibility on what gender their passport says and doesn't do genetic testing.
Another committee, the IBA tested her last year. She was disqualified from that tournament because it was believed the tests showed she was genetically male, but the IBA didn't release the results.
Here's the most likely situation:
She was born a girl, has a female anatomy, but also has something like Swyer Syndrome which gives her presenting female features, and male XY chromosomes. As she has grown, she didn't go through normal female puberty but instead exhibited more masculine development including more muscle and testosterone, etc. My guess is she doesn't have periods and is infertile. She's essentially a dude in a female body.
So, like 90% of the athletes in the olympics, she's a genetic freak. I mean Labron and Usain Bolt are both genetic freaks in their own right. Except we have a division for her type of genetic freakiness, it's called the male division.
It can't be a biological woman and have Y chromosome, because only males have an Y chromosome - it's how gender is determined. It's a guy with some genetic syndrome. If the debates online showed anything, it's that people failed biology hard.
What if you have a Y chromosome but are born with a vagina and no penis. How do you square that circle? Historically (at least before genetic testing) gender was determined by what you have between your legs.
That's possible only if it is XXY, X0+XY or XX+XY mutation. In any case it could not be a woman. Woman is XX. Man is XY. Everything else, regardless of havimg vagina or penis or both, or none is a deviation. Mutant. And 100% not a woman.
There is no such thing as what now named "gender". There is only two biological sexes and rare mutations.
But really, completely another thing is important. It is absolutely clear and obvious that fucking "professional sports" slave owners intentionally search and enslave that rare mutants with a goal to cheat in "competitions" using advantage (larger strength, so much less training and mediacation necessary) of such mutants over woman. Having two of that extremely rare mutants in one competition proves undoubtedly that such search and enslavement done purposedly and intentionally.
Interesting that both mutants was not very succesfull in previous competitions with women, like they was brought to competition without any serious training in the hope that their advantage will be enough to win. But now looks like they are much more succesfull. This also proves that even a little (only few years) training allow mutants defeat normal women who spent all their life in endless work-outs.
Such mutations are extremely rare, around 0.007%, but they are thoroughly searched and used in "professional sports" since beginning of 20 century when sport become busines.
As for me, this is absolutely sick and disgusting. Search for people with such mutations and force them into sports to cheat over normal women.