The case of two female fist fighters, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria, competing in the women's events at the Paris Olympics, has heated up the discussion about their gender. There have been harsh comments, memes and made-up facts of life. Meanwhile, the issue of physical gender differentiation is not at all as simple as it may seem to some commentators.
- Our process of physical gender differentiation is complex This is not a zero-one issue. We don't know exactly what medical situation we are dealing with in the case of exactly these two female athletes, because their medical data has not been made public. As a result, there is a lot of speculation," says Sebastian Goncerz, a doctor in the process of specializing in psychiatry.
The fact is that female athletes were not allowed by the Internation...
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