Questions For Evolutionary Biologist On The Olympic Boxer Controversy
Hi everyone,
This week I’ll be chatting with my friend
from Substack about the viralized Olympic boxer controversy:
It’s a polarizing issue that happens to have more nuance and complexity than both the Left and Right acknowledge.
Colin is an evolutionary biologist and has been writing on this issue for years. He’s the perfect guest to discuss this with.
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Only dropping a comment and not a question. Carini, the Italian Olympian who stopped the match for her own protection, she made the call that the Olympic Committee should have made for combat sports. Fairness aside, this was an issue of safety, even though they had helmets and a ref, this match was stacked and wildly unsafe for her
My question
Imane was born with only female reproductive organs. She has the XY chromosome and naturally high testosterone. and subsequent masculine development. I believe this made the match unfair and should never been allowed. But what does Imane do? How does she compete? I don't know if she could be competitive with male boxers though she has likely been doing that until the woke olympics came along. Is that her arena, then?