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Khelif is male with a DSD
Where's the evidence of that?
There have been several leaks of medical results, here's a Snopes article about one of them:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/11/20/imane-khelif-medical-records/
Note that the article confuses sex and gender such as here:
Gender is of course not binary, but sex is. The leaked findings show that Khelif is unambiguously male, and has the same condition as Caster Semenya, who is also unambigously male and has fathered several children.
Note that nobody is disputing the leaked findings, merely talking around them, such as saying that it was unethical to leak them. It may have been, but that doesn't change the findings. The IOC itself confirmed that it was a DSD issue. Khelif has refused to take a simple, cheap, non-invasive test that would put the issue to rest, and has even attempted legal action over implementation of sex testing for women's sports.
Is this not enough to stop you from going around claiming she's a male?
Why would it? Note that nobody is saying that the leak is fake or edited. The silence is deafening, but also not the only evidence. There's another undisputed leak the confirms the same:
And the IOC itself saying that it's a DSD case:
In total, there are exactly zero people saying "Khelif is female based on medical records", and several different people saying "Khelif is male based on medical records", combined with the IOC stating that it's a DSD issue, which means that Khelif is male. Khelif could remove all doubt with a simple, cheap, non-invasive sex test, so why hasn't that happened?
The IOC did not state this, they just conflated DSD with transgender in the initial statement. Why do you keep saying the leaks are undisputed? Read my initial quote about Snopes trying to corroborate the claims and being unable to.
What doubt is there exactly, you're pretty convinced that they're a male with nothing but conjecture, smoke and mirrors.
They corrected themselves after stating that it wasn't a DSD case. If it wasn't a DSD case, then why correct it? Why not say "it's not a transgender case either"?
The leaks are undisputed in the sense that nobody is saying "these are fake/edited/whatever". People are refusing to comment on them, which is why Snopes says that they're uncorroborated. That's a "no duh" though, of course they're not going to comment on something that they might get sued over.
Here's a thread that goes over more evidence
An example:
Another:
Notice that they won't say "female". Notice also that Khelif has refused to take a sex test, even though it would be simple, cheap, non-invasive, and put to rest all doubts. Why not?
This is exactly why organizations are instituting sex testing, so that we don't have to have a silly culture war and can just focus on sports. Khelif is welcome to compete in women's leagues after going through the same sex test that everyone else will go through as well.
Look, I'm kind of mad that you're dragging me back into this stupid year old argument. Quoting a bunch of reddit comments is not particularly convincing "evidence". There's plenty in there that address some of your points and I'm not going to sit here and have a proxy argument with you through other's comments. I don't believe there's enough evidence to say they are a male, nor do I know enough about genetics to say anything worthwhile about whether she's intersex and what sort of implications that brings. Based on what you've said so far, I'm guessing you're no geneticist either.
You're the one standing up for the people waging the culture war here, JKR doesn't give a shit about women's sports. Khelif's lost a quarter of her fights, she's good but she's no Mike Tyson.
If you're going to dismiss evidence simply because you don't want it to be true, that's fine. Seems kind of silly to me, but you do you.
I dismissed it because it can't be corroborated, which is the same reason you should dismiss it as well. Sure, life would be a lot easier if I could be swayed by random bullshit on reddit and turn off all critical thinking skills and logic at a whim, but I can't. God it would be easy to decisively talk about the sex of a random amateur boxer halfway across the world while simultaneously decrying the "culture war", but I can't. Man life would be so much simpler if I could just be that goddamn stupid 👍