Khelif and another boxer, featherweight Lin Yu-Ting of Chinese Taipei, have been fighting under a cloud in France after the Algerian’s opening victory over Angela Carini, who quit after 46 seconds.
But that’s literally every condition. Thats everything a top physical athlete has - their entire physique is a physical advantage over others. How is it different than say, Michael Phelps producing less lactic acid which allows him to have greater endurance? Why is lactic acid okay to be different with, but not testosterone? Both are genetic abnormalities that confer an advantage.
The reason is that they can’t be transphobic about lactic acid.
There are sports that are designed in a way that give estrogen dominant people advantages. Testosterone isn’t an advantage for every sport, and Testosterone in isolation isn’t an “advantage men have over women,” because it comes with a cost including lower lifespan. Cool that you think that way?
The way many sports are designed gives testosterone dominant people an advantage. That’s patriarchy for ya.
Height isn’t that important for swimming or even running - ShaCarri is like 5’1".
Lactic acid is not related to gender, that’s my point. But you clearly believe in gender determinism and think sex chromosomes make up a huge part of genetic makeup when it is quite tiny. Women and men have more in common than we have different.
My criticism is that categories based on gender are unscientific. Which you agree with but say you can’t be bothered with the details so its good enough. Well, some of us are smart enough to actually analyze this and know enough about medicine to criticize the heuristic of Testosterone as a metric for athletic competitions when there’s more involved than just T.
My argument is that if testosterone is considered an advantage in a sport, then athletes shouldn’t be banned for their anatomy, but instead the sport should adapt and sort athletes by T levels if it truly matters. Men shouldn’t be getting hurt by other men with higher testosterone, either. And we should be MORE inclusive of athletes who don’t fit the gender binary by getting rid of these men’s/women’s categories that aren’t really helpful or accurate anyway.
If a sport included both men and women at the higher level, then they will compete at lower levels. It’s not like we’d be asking women to box men for the very first time in an Olympic setting, if we organized the groups by testosterone and some women and men ended up competing.
Some sports including fighting sports can have rule changes or be redesigned to give women advantages. If we look at those warrior challenges, many of that has to do with center of gravity. If women can get their hips over stuff, they are good, but for men it’s often their shoulders. If women run the course a little differently, they can often do really well. That’s not because they are “worse” athletes, they are just athletes different than men.
So which is it that’s an issue? Is it sex or is it testosterone? And how do you define sex? What if someone has testosterone but isn’t responsive, in the case of people who are XY and appear to be cisfemale and are simply nonresponsive to testosterone?
We weigh people continously.
We aren’t asking for other parameters. Stop strawmanning. I asked for testosterone and weight for combat sports.
Why must this fully be accurate and correct when you’re completely fine with the less precise heuristic we have currently going based on gender?
It’s not a problem in practice because we force a false gender dichotomy that literally disqualifies these specific athletes.
They are only “corner cases” because you define gender as red and yellow and thus leave out orange, green, and purple.
Women athletes think a variety of things because they are a variety of people.
There are advantages to men when the only men allowed to represent men are high testosterone and the only women allowed to represent women are low testosterone.
Did you read the article I linked? I am aware of these issues with testosterone. But this is the issue people have with men competing against women - testosterone. It’s what they do blood tests for.
So your solution to this issue is to be regressive and keep the bad gender heuristic which forces an arbitrary gender binary on us and excludes otherwise legitimate athletes from competing because they don’t fit this arbitrary mold? Tell me what’s ideal here. What’s fair?
But that’s literally every condition. Thats everything a top physical athlete has - their entire physique is a physical advantage over others. How is it different than say, Michael Phelps producing less lactic acid which allows him to have greater endurance? Why is lactic acid okay to be different with, but not testosterone? Both are genetic abnormalities that confer an advantage.
The reason is that they can’t be transphobic about lactic acid.
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There are sports that are designed in a way that give estrogen dominant people advantages. Testosterone isn’t an advantage for every sport, and Testosterone in isolation isn’t an “advantage men have over women,” because it comes with a cost including lower lifespan. Cool that you think that way?
The way many sports are designed gives testosterone dominant people an advantage. That’s patriarchy for ya.
Height isn’t that important for swimming or even running - ShaCarri is like 5’1".
Lactic acid is not related to gender, that’s my point. But you clearly believe in gender determinism and think sex chromosomes make up a huge part of genetic makeup when it is quite tiny. Women and men have more in common than we have different.
My criticism is that categories based on gender are unscientific. Which you agree with but say you can’t be bothered with the details so its good enough. Well, some of us are smart enough to actually analyze this and know enough about medicine to criticize the heuristic of Testosterone as a metric for athletic competitions when there’s more involved than just T.
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My argument is that if testosterone is considered an advantage in a sport, then athletes shouldn’t be banned for their anatomy, but instead the sport should adapt and sort athletes by T levels if it truly matters. Men shouldn’t be getting hurt by other men with higher testosterone, either. And we should be MORE inclusive of athletes who don’t fit the gender binary by getting rid of these men’s/women’s categories that aren’t really helpful or accurate anyway.
If a sport included both men and women at the higher level, then they will compete at lower levels. It’s not like we’d be asking women to box men for the very first time in an Olympic setting, if we organized the groups by testosterone and some women and men ended up competing.
Some sports including fighting sports can have rule changes or be redesigned to give women advantages. If we look at those warrior challenges, many of that has to do with center of gravity. If women can get their hips over stuff, they are good, but for men it’s often their shoulders. If women run the course a little differently, they can often do really well. That’s not because they are “worse” athletes, they are just athletes different than men.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNG16aYg/
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So which is it that’s an issue? Is it sex or is it testosterone? And how do you define sex? What if someone has testosterone but isn’t responsive, in the case of people who are XY and appear to be cisfemale and are simply nonresponsive to testosterone?
We weigh people continously.
We aren’t asking for other parameters. Stop strawmanning. I asked for testosterone and weight for combat sports.
Why must this fully be accurate and correct when you’re completely fine with the less precise heuristic we have currently going based on gender?
It’s not a problem in practice because we force a false gender dichotomy that literally disqualifies these specific athletes.
They are only “corner cases” because you define gender as red and yellow and thus leave out orange, green, and purple.
Women athletes think a variety of things because they are a variety of people.
There are advantages to men when the only men allowed to represent men are high testosterone and the only women allowed to represent women are low testosterone.
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Did you read the article I linked? I am aware of these issues with testosterone. But this is the issue people have with men competing against women - testosterone. It’s what they do blood tests for.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men
So your solution to this issue is to be regressive and keep the bad gender heuristic which forces an arbitrary gender binary on us and excludes otherwise legitimate athletes from competing because they don’t fit this arbitrary mold? Tell me what’s ideal here. What’s fair?