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If you stay behind ... What is there to do? All the outlets in the concourse are closed. I have a wheelchair passenger. The stewards clearly want you to leave and it's too cold and wet in winter to hang around. Are we to just sit in our car, in Car park A for half an hour?

There are lots of people with DSDs. Just as there are lots of people with other conditions that means they can't participate in many activities. Not sure what you're asking of me or women's sport.

The IOC can do their own tests. Why don't they? Could it be too much bother to actually protect women's sport? This problem is not going away. There will be more until they do their job by looking at the evidence and being strong enough to make tough decisions.

https://www.iba.sport/news/statement-made-by-the-international-boxing-association-regarding-athletes-disqualifications-in-world-boxing-championships-2023/

Worth noting that neither boxer appealed against their disqualification, nor presumably, put themselves forward for other tests. This should be simple for 99.9 per cent of us. As they didn't can we surmise that they know they have a DSD which could, or should, make them ineligible? IOC...

What I meant is it's a red herring when used in the context of 'this is just a woman with high testosterone' - there's no such thing in healthy women, only in those with a disorder or doping. If you're trying to argue that this is a female with unusually high testosterone, you're wasting your...

The normal range for testosterone in a female is well below the range in a male. So this is a non starter. A male cannot reduce his testosterone to a female level.

Irrevelant. We're talking about a sex classification. If we have to guess and speculate, the governing bodies have failed.

The real story is that this person is male. The regulating bodies prefer to silly shally around without having robust categories for sex. Without these there is no women's sport. It appears these 2 boxers have been wrongly classed as girls since birth, like Caster Semanya was. Tests have...

Clueless

Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan—

A birth certificate might say "female" ... Is that enough, in your view, or should there be medical criteria? It is a failure to govern and exclude male advantage in women's sport. Did you support the ban on Oscar Pistorius for having an unfair advantage with his blades? Do you support athletes...

If the 2 boxers failed the gender tests how do you conclude that they are women? Please explain. Try to do so without mentioning the red herring of testosterone.

Sex discrimination presented as entertainment. Shameful lack of governance from the IOC. The IOC have a history of excluding, marginalising and trivialising women's sport. If they don't want to have a robust women's category step aside.

This stuff is cringe though

Wtf is this social media stuff?

Of course there may be the one in a hundred million person to whom this does not apply. But that's what regulation in sport is for, to exclude unfair advantage.

This high testosterone bit is a blind alley. Women only have high testosterone if they have a medical condition or if they're doping. It doesn't happen naturally in healthy females. Even when it occurs due to a medical condition it is nowhere near as high as normal male range. It's an excuse not...

Caster has an intersex condition and is correctly categorised as male with a DSD. Not female or trans. So is this Algerian apparently. Nothing to do with trans. It's simply poor regulation and blatant sex discrimination against females. IOC disgraceful lack of integrity.