What's odd about this is everyone keeps saying "it could be" ... and "if this is true then" ...
The facts we know on the ground:
1. The organizing body for this event did not (apparently) do any testing
That's on them, not on the athlete.
2. Two organizing bodies who tested this person said they have XY chromosomes and high testosterone levels
Conjecture and rumor, as of now.
3. This person is taller than the (male) judge, and stands head and shoulders above any of the other competitors
All women are short? All men are tall? Hardly. There are women out there who are easily over 6-feet tall. Height means nothing.
4. This person has body hair similar to a man's, and doesn't shave it (legs, etc.) ... most females with this kind of body hair shave to achieve a more feminine look
Not so! Yes, it is in America
nowadays. But in most countries, women don't shave below the waist. Not even their legs.
5. There are pictures of this person in Algeria, a Muslim country where dress codes are strictly enforced, wearing male clothing, in public
Unfortunately with this person's looks, had they dressed like a woman, they would have risked being physically attacked.... mistaken for a cross-dresser. Would have been safer just to wear men's clothing while out and about.
6. This person's actions before the match appear to be very masculine (adjusting body parts a female does not have, not adjusting body parts a female does have, like most of the other women competitors).
Proves nothing. You think women don't touch themselves?
7. This person hit an experienced female boxer so hard she gave up and cried.
No matter how good you are, there is always someone out there better than you. Learned that lesson early in Life. Some women are just bigger and stronger than other women.
This is, AFAIK, what we _know_.
All the bits about their possible being born this way or that is speculation.
Exactly!
No-one has said "I saw their genitals, and they are female." No-one (that I know of) has said "I have proof from a doctor this person is female," or "they have this condition." It's all "gotcha, proved you wrong."
You were doing so well in that last part. Speculation? Where's the hard evidence that she's not a biological female? Apparently she has to get pregnant to prove it. Even then, there will be detractors.
One thing that does upset me--the people treating the woman who "gave up" as some sort of idiot, someone who'd never been in the ring before, someone who'd never been hit. She's in the Olympics. She's been hit before. She's been in the ring before. She knows how hard other women hit. Progressives want to say "believe all women," but when she says "I've never been hit that hard before," we totally disregard her testimony and speculate about how to justify this situation.
She was afraid of getting crippled against a stronger opponent. No shame in giving up, and not wanting to get hurt.
We're so busy defending this person we are forgetting there was someone else in the ring. Someone who was badly hurt. We're forgetting about the women who have been physically disfigured or disabled, permanently, in other situations (apparently) similar to this.
I'll say it, some sports should be gender-specific.... Boxing definitely one of them.
So I don't buy the whole "this person might be ..." Prove it, and then prove why--even if they have such a condition--they should be in the ring hitting a woman in the face.
It's up to the Olympic Committee and the doctors working for them to make that determination. Which, as you pointed out, they have failed miserably to do so. There are biological females who won, or perhaps lost, the biological lottery and can
almost hit as hard as a similarly-sized man.
