Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.

Your post is meaningless without links to what you are talking about.

Who is the far right and can you give us a links to their posts?

Imane Khelif is not trans, that's correct, but nor was he "born a woman". Like Caster Semenya, she is a male with a male-specific disorder of sexual development that resulted in the genitals remaining indeterminate at birth (testes not descended and malformation of external genitals), such as this: https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8538/46xy-disorder-of-sex-development .

a condition in which an individual with one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each cell, the pattern normally found in males, have genitalia that is not clearly male or female

But, like Semenya, the testes were still present, albeit internal and therefore Khelif went through male puberty with all the advantages in terms of muscle mass etc that this entails.

I don't consider that Khelif is deliberately cheating, in the sense that the problem is medical misdiagnosis at birth/childhood. Nevertheless, the fact remains that physically, putting a woman up against Khelif is the same as having her fight a man. It makes a mockery of the concept of male and female categories. Khelif should be fighting men, or else should just do like the rest of us and accept that we are not Olympic material. There's no shame in that.

The IOC only acknowledged that she isn't trans a couple of hours ago. Up to that point they were saying nothing - just that her passport said she is female. They are drip feeding information in damage control mode, it seems.

RTE even have a report on it, basically questioning the result of the gender test by the IBA, despite quoting the head of the IBA saying she had XY chromosomes. It's easy to throw around claims of "far right disinformation" when confusion and misinformation abounds.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0731/1462837-explained-the-gender-controversy-miring-womens-olympic-boxing/

the International boxing association made a statement yesterday to say that Khelif was not disqualified for Testosterone levels, rather had failed a gender test.

Gender testing used to be common place in the olympics up until the 80s but was abandoned more recently, hence Khelif managed to get through to and compete in the last olympics.

Before DNA tests were a thing, it probably did happen more often than we realize.

There was also the middle distance South African runner Semenya.

It's definitely a major problem for world sport : anyone overloaded with male chromosomes and hormones (even if supposedly 'naturally' occurring) would have an inbuilt advantage over females, probably similar to the effects of talking performance enhancing drugs.

Personally, I would ban such athletes from competing in international sport - but it is a completely different topic to the whole 'transgender' thing and people having surgery and taking massive amounts of hormones in order to change their gender.

Yes I agree, and perhaps my twitter algorithm just isn't "far right" enough to see them, but I haven't seen many tweets saying that these are transgender athletes (other than the odd "passer-by" who is happening on this issue for pretty much the first time and hasn't yet got their head around it all).

What I'm seeing are people explaining that it's ok for Imane Khelif to fight Angela Carini because Khelif is NOT transgender. But that's a false argument IMO, which presumes that opposition to transgender women participating in female categories is based on dislike of trans women, rather than on a desire to protect women.

IOW, it's exactly the lie that trans rights activists are propagating about women such as Joanne Rowling.

That this is not what happened here at all.

They've been told by the IOC not to say anything about a person's sex. We all have to pretend there's nothing different about these male people competing against females. Pure gaslighting at this stage

Technically this seems to have happened due to a bureaucracy mess-up. The IBA which was meant to run Olympic boxing had tested and disqualified the two athletes but the IBA itself was then removed from managing the event (qualifying, refereeing, rules) due to concerns with how the IBA was run (related to russian influence) so the IOC stepped in and defaulted to the rules from previous Olympics which allowed them to compete (possibly as they couldn't get all the correct procedures in place in a short amount of time).

The IOC does not do well at taking criticism (mostly to protect their cronyism) so double down in these cases.

No it’s not you with your hysterical nonsense. It’s a person who appeared female when born and was raised female. You should f right off with your wedge nonsense.

Should they have been allowed compete, probably not, but this is a medical issue around the individuals despite all attempts to equate to the trans issue

you’d have to wonder do they do it for the banter.

It would have to be a personal vendetta against an Algerian and a Taiwanese boxer, both of whom do actually look like men. Kind of a weird coincidence if so.

No I think it's more likely that, while the IBA is undoubtedly corrupt - as is the IOC, TBF - it is unrelated to the gender issue, and the IBA, like most, but by no means all, governing bodies were in the process of repairing the disastrous mistake the IOC made a few years ago when it ditched gender tests (against the wishes of something like 82% of female athletes asked) allowing anyone who identified as female to participate in the female category of their sport.

As a side effect, this simultaneously removed the thorny issue of how sports bodies should consider DSD/intersex athletes, but it was actually done principally to placate the trans lobby.

Only of course now that the IBA is no longer accredited by the IOC, there is no world governing body to take the responsibility that the IOC had "bravely" delegated to each sports governing body to make these decisions, so that for boxing, the IOC took no decision at all, and just stuck with the status quo of Tokyo.