All boxers, including Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.
All boxers, including Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.
Well frankly, there’s a whole can of worms to be had about how people should be categorized. A different league for distinct height ranges? Different leagues based on ACTN3? There’s a whole bunch of uneven biological factors that competitors had no control over, should gender be the only one so broadly recognized?
Almost every sport does actually have only “women” and “free for all” categories, very few have a “men” only one.
And it usually exists only because otherwise there simply would be no female competitors. One example is chess - the three best women have world rankings of #143, #250 and #271.