It is interesting that on trans women athletes we have some practical verification—they just don’t get to win much even when allowed. One could speculate “till the cows come home” on just why that happens but their triumphs are limited to university sports, senior amateur cycling, and the like. (A trans man boxer, Patricio Manuel, also got a degree of success in the male leagues).
The big debate about the big wins is happening not about trans athletes (for lack of object), but about intersex ones, like Caster Semenya, or the allegedly intersex ones, like Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting.
The entirety of the “evidence” for the latter two being intersex at all (let alone “male”) is the very definition of “fruit of the poisoned tree”, coming from a disgraced former boxing association (“IBA”) that is closely associated with the Russian regime to the point of banning Ukraine in 2022; its leader Umar Kremlev, some days before the scandal, reacted to the Olympic opening with “The 2024 Olympic Games are outright sodomy and the destruction of traditional values throughout the world and Thomas Bach is responsible for this” https://x.com/umarkremlev/status/1818633618371076546
In the case of Lin Yu-Ting, an actually trustworthy body, the Chinese Taipei Boxing Association, says that she has tested female.
And yet the anti-trans crowd is very invested in these two women being “male”. I wonder why they would be.
It is interesting that on trans women athletes we have some practical verification—they just don’t get to win much even when allowed. One could speculate “till the cows come home” on just why that happens but their triumphs are limited to university sports, senior amateur cycling, and the like. (A trans man boxer, Patricio Manuel, also got a degree of success in the male leagues).
The big debate about the big wins is happening not about trans athletes (for lack of object), but about intersex ones, like Caster Semenya, or the allegedly intersex ones, like Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting.
The entirety of the “evidence” for the latter two being intersex at all (let alone “male”) is the very definition of “fruit of the poisoned tree”, coming from a disgraced former boxing association (“IBA”) that is closely associated with the Russian regime to the point of banning Ukraine in 2022; its leader Umar Kremlev, some days before the scandal, reacted to the Olympic opening with “The 2024 Olympic Games are outright sodomy and the destruction of traditional values throughout the world and Thomas Bach is responsible for this” https://x.com/umarkremlev/status/1818633618371076546
In the case of Lin Yu-Ting, an actually trustworthy body, the Chinese Taipei Boxing Association, says that she has tested female.
And yet the anti-trans crowd is very invested in these two women being “male”. I wonder why they would be.