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She also said she has female hormones in that interview. So fair enough she almost certainly has something going on medically but that quote isn't enough to say that whatever she has is enough to fail the standards, then or now, of competing in boxing contests.

Azath Vitr (D, on 05 April 2026 - 07:50 PM, said:

This would require me to believe that through her whole career (I've watched a few of her fights) that Khelif was so carefully able to control her strength that she wasn't blasting her opponents out even when she did appear to be sitting down on her punches, but forgot herself one time and damaged Carrini with a nothing shot.

That Carrini got into her own head because she'd been told beforehand that Khelif had failed those tests and freaked out over a weird, painful, but not especially notable connection is a way more plausible explanation to me.

I didn't see this discussion as it was happening on Khelif, but as someone who follows boxing a lot and saw her box at the games:


if she has 'male advantage', it's very minimal, so much so that it's essentially irrelevant. Her fighting her competitors looks nothing at all like a man fighting women would look- she isn't unusually strong, fast or powerful for a woman in her weight class and is in fact less so than other woman fighters.


If the rules say that someone with her alleged condition (it should not fail to be remembered that the organisation who initially failed her is comically, grotesquely corrupt, has been removed from administrating boxing at the Olympics, and even the application of that supposed failed test didn't follow any application of their own rules, and the other boxer at those Olympics with the same controversy has now been cleared to fight under the new rules of the new organisation, so I'm gonna be sceptical until she takes a test administered by someone else, but let's operate under that assumption) can't box then it's something she's gonna have to deal with, but it simply isn't the case that she has a huge physical advantage that's insurmountable for or dangerous to her opponents, and the idea that it is is something created by bigots and spread by people who don't watch boxing, didn't watch a single second of Khelif apart from that moment Carrini quit, and don't understand fight sports.

As an illustration, here is Khelif fighting:






Here is Albina Moldozhanova, a woman in the same division (albeit fighting here as a pro), who has no controversy or hint of a question about whether she has any kind of condition that would give her male advantage:


https://youtu.be/P1vOGs3WQOE?t=163


That just isn't what a man, or someone with all the physical, athletic advantages of being a man, fighting a woman, would look like.








Separately to all that: regardless of what one believes about the situation around Khelif, Rowling's language and demeanour when talking about Khelif, and about trans people, has been vile. In fact as QT was pointing out in the other thread Rowling has been weaponising her demonisation of Khalif - not trans, but now stigmatised to a certain crowd- against trans people. It's awful.

Through chapter 14.




Yeah this is entertaining.

Once again begging everyone to play UFO 50.

Through chapter 11: wow, that's a lot of factions.