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All boxers, including Algeria's Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.

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[-] eyelevel@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

FYI, Intersex people (those born with nonbinary sex characteristics such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns) are approximately 1.7% of the general population.

By comparison, red hair occurs at similar rates, and accounts for between 1 - 2% of the general population.

When you consider how many people with red hair you may have met in your life, on average, you have also met a similar number of intersex people, whether you knew it at the time or not.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

The 1.7% figure is generally considered inaccurate, with most of that 1.7% being anomolous, but not out-right counter to the genotypic sex. LOCAH can cause infertility/reduced menstrual cycles as well as excessive body hair or balding in women, but wouldn't generally be considered phenotypically male. The second biggest one is a male having their urethra open in the wrong spot, which while anomolous, is certainly not going to make someone think they should be considered to be sexed female just because their penis has the hole in the wrong place.

The syndromes more like one would expect, like AIS, amounts to somewhere around 0.02% to 0.05%.

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

But that's why we don't let people with red hair compete in sports either.

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