Female boxer taps out after two punches against biological male in the Olympic boxing

She is likely correct. "It's the way she was born". Male.

This Italian woman is a sore loser. I guess accusing women who defeat you of being men and crying about it is her best shot of getting a moment on the world stage.

Getting hit by a man seems like something you wouldn't expect in women's boxing.

What’s the basis for your claim that “just about every female athlete at the Games has higher than average testosterone”?

Also, when you say nearly every female athlete at the Games has “higher than average testosterone” are you suggesting most are doping? Or do you mean they have natural testosterone that’s higher than average for females?

If you’re talking about natural T, are you saying that just about nearly all the female athletes at the 2024 Paris Games have natural T at or above the top end of the normal female range (0.12-1.68 nmol/L)? Or that they have more natural T than the mean levels found amongst the general female population (0.6–0.7 nmol/L)?

If you’re talking about natural T levels, your contention contradicts previous findings about elite female track & field athletes competing at the highest levels.

In 2011, extensive hormone testing was performed on blood samples taken from 849 of the 855 athletes who competed in the women's category as the 2011 IAAF World Championships. Ten athletes were determined to be XY DSD or doping, so their results were separated from the rest.

The 839 remaining athletes were found to have T levels “close to those reported in sedentary young women.”

The median level of T for the world's top female athletes in track & field in 2011 was found to be 0.69 nmol/L. 75% had T under .94 nmol/L.

Only 9 out of the 839 best athletes in women’s international track & field had T levels above 3.0 nmol/L - and the researchers suspected that 6 of them might be doping or have undisclosed XY DSDs and testes.

academic.oup.com

Serum Androgen Levels in Elite Female Athletes

Objective:. Prior to the implementation of the blood steroidal module of the Athlete Biological Passport, we measured the serum androgen levels among a lar

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I think it’s unlikely that the natural T levels of the female athletes competing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are markedly different to the T levels of the female athletes who competed at the 2011 IAAF World Championship.

But if you have evidence showing otherwise, I’ll be happy to change my mind. So please share your “receipts.”

I’ll be waiting with bated breath.

thank goodness seb coe banned women with testes from athletics

The algerian woman isn't a man you dumb hick.

Except, he didn't.

Dems support this.

Thanks for sharing this data - I find it very interesting because it seems counterintuitive. If the whole argument is that higher testosterone elevates a woman’s athleticism, then I would’ve guessed that most Olympic women had naturally elevated testosterone levels compared to the general population. But this testing is essentially saying that testosterone doesn’t not have a statistically significant impact on the aptitude of these athletes. Or at least, testosterone specifically is not what makes these women great runners / field athletes compared to the general population. Doesn’t that seem interesting? I wonder if there’s a different biometric that is statistically significant (VO2, lactic, etc).

You seem reading comprehension deficited too.

It seems counterintuitive to me, as well. I wonder whether the results would be different if they tested these elite women during non-peak training times?

We know that heavy training volumes can suppress hormone production, which is why amenorrhea is a common condition among elite female runners. So can high training volumes do the same thing to testosterone, meaning that even though these women have "average" T levels at the Olympics, that this is a result of the training, and that their natural T levels were much higher before they started serious training? After all, aren't "low" testosterone levels common among elite male runners, due in part to the training?

Before the anti-trans people lose their minds; just here to remind everyone that she was born a woman. This is a complicated subject.

XY chromosomes and a failed gender test suggest "she" is.

It's so complicated it appears she was born a man. That's how you get male levels of testosterone.

This is all over the political right wing talk circuit, which is fine. But somewhere Ajee Wilson and Coach Thompson are chuckling "Oh, NOW ya'll care. Where you been?!"

You haven't read the post above from "runragged" that explains that top female athletes don't have elevated t-levels.

This is how stupid letsrun has become.

She's not "biological male" (which isn't actually a thing)

She's NOT transgender (which shouldn't even be a problem)

She's NOT even DSD (which shouldn't even be a problem)

She's been tested like a dozen times over the past years, no problems by any governing group.

She has competed for years without any problems.

BUT she beat a Russian boxer and Russia decided to sew some propaganda

And look who is falling for all that, hook line and sinker.

This is as bad as the Ledecky morons.

Meanwhile, here is the Dana White (an actual man) who introduced Donald Trump at the RNC. We’re cool with him striking his wife but the right wing nut jobs are coming out of the woodwork for Khelif. Where were you people in 2021 when she competed and no one said anything?

Wrong. Khelif was thrown out of last year's world championships after failing testosterone tests carried out to establish gender qualification.