• ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The ‘accusation’ is that Imane Khelif is a ‘biological male’, which is absolutely some bullshit she just made up. Maybe there’s an argument to be had around testosterone levels in female athletes (although again, the allegation that Khelif has higher than average levels has not actually been corroborated) but I personally don’t think so, and I don’t think this is an example that necessitates that conversation.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not though, it first came from the head of her own boxing league quite some time ago.

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        3 months ago

        But it didn’t. She was disqualified from the competition, it wasn’t clearly stated why. And as previously mentioned, there are huge questions of trustworthiness regarding that organisation. I also have my doubts that Lauren Boebert has any awareness of previous allegations, but suspect she has just jumped on an assumption as many online seem to have done.

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          3 months ago

          See the Wiki linked above:

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

          “In 2023, IBA president Umar Kremlev said that the disqualifications were because DNA tests “proved they had XY chromosomes”.”

          I’m not going to get into the accuracy of the allegations, the IBA refused to prove them, but the fact is the allegation itself has been around for more than a year, long before the current Olympics and Bobo’s statement.

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            3 months ago

            I’ll grant you, Boebert wasn’t the first person to make the claim. But I doubt she’s got an awareness of historical allegations from an association that most people who don’t follow boxing won’t have heard of. I suspect she’s either jumping on a bandwagon of other people making the claim, or making a claim based on her ‘feeling’ that Khelif doesn’t look traditionally feminine.