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TERFs believe in biological sex - until they don't (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Imane Khelif is just the latest victim of idiotic transvestigators.

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[–] merc 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

women are not allowed to be successful on the same terms as men.

Right, because current Olympic sports are almost exclusively ones where having a male body gives you an advantage.

Imagine someone invented a new sport where women had a natural advantage. Say, some kind of obstacle course where a small body size and flexibility was the most important thing. I can guarantee that if a group of men competed in that and one of the competitors won because he had a very feminine body, people would question whether he was really a man.

So for what you’re proposing to work, the criteria must be simple, wide-reaching, and unassailable

And, I don't think that's possible. Sex and gender are simply too complicated. There will always be some arbitrary line that a lot of people think is unfair, and that disadvantages people who happen to fall on the wrong side of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And yet the IOC seems to think that these two particular women qualify for the women's class in boxing. Why is the IOC wrong?

[–] merc 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think they're wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't. You're the one complaining about Khelif competing in the Olympics but also saying we should listen to the governing body.