Olympics, Paris, 2024

[John Wright]

I enjoy the Guardian. But it’s daft sometimes.

GB is allegedly joint top of the medals table. ( No medals awarded yet - Friday at 19.15 BST )

[Passing Time]

1 hour ago, John Wright said:

I enjoy the Guardian. But it’s daft sometimes.

GB is allegedly joint top of the medals table. ( No medals awarded yet - Friday at 19.15 BST )

Not keen on alphabetical order then🤷‍♂️

[2bees]

The gymnastics are amazing. The American team are solid, they’ve got legs like kangaroos! The tiny Chinese girl was flying between the asymmetrical bars, totally insane - love it!

[Bobbie Bobster]

Elation and despair.

 

[The Phantom]

It seems I just watched a dude beat up a girl in the Womens boxing. 

[When Skies are Grey V2]

Factor 50 vs Factor 1

[Passing Time]

2 hours ago, The Phantom said:

It seems I just watched a dude beat up a girl in the Womens boxing. 

IOC have a lot to answer for

[Anyone]

Interesting one this. It’s obvious that the Algerian has a manly powerful build therefor an advantage. What about darts? Female player has refused to play a transgender. But where’s the advantage ? Apart from birds can’t count backwards ( that was a joke by the way so calm down). 

[The Phantom]

Since when did Algeria become so trans progressive?

[Anyone]

I think it’s more complicated than that. As  understand it she/he is not trans but has , well I don’t understand it’s medical in that she / he has an overload of male testosterone thus giving she/ he an advantage in terms of endurance and strength that is more male than female.

[Anyone]

I think.

[Chinahand]

Not trans, Intersex. Complex issue.

Androgen Insensitive Disorder of Sexual Development. 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/androgen-insensitivity-syndrome/

[HeliX]

The fact that the "you don't know what a woman is!" GC crowd are all jumping on the bandwagon of calling the boxer who was born a woman trans would be funny if it was less sad.

[Anyone]

I did not say that. I think china hand has put us right there , as usual . You’re just a cunt as usual.

[Chinahand]

Hard cases make bad law.

Sexually reproducing animals have basically two development pathways and only a tiny subset of animals (clown fish etc) are able to move from one pathway to the other.

In humans sexual development is almost entirely bi-modal with developmental abnormalities that do not follow one or the other of the development pathways numbered in the single digits per tens of thousands.

Testosterone is a dominant factor in driving the physical differences between male and female and it makes a huge difference:

It is perfectly reasonable to say the particular genital characteristics of a person are not the deciding factor in trying to make sport fair between the sexes, but rather the amount of testosterone the body has been exposed to during pubity and as a competing adult.

These boxing matches are inherently unfair.