> The actual issue was that this athlete, Imane Khelif, is male.
No, she’s not, even in terms of assigned gender at birth, and she represents an Islamic country in which she would be imprisoned if she was and was living as a woman.
> despite having previously been deemed ineligible by the International Boxing Association for this reason, after a karyotype test revealed XY chromosomes.
The IBA had already been stripped of its role as a governing body with regard Olympic boxing due to the rather extraordinary and flagrant corruption in that organization (and for that to reach a level intolerable to the IOC is saying quite a bit), but even if the IBA’s claim of karyotype testing wasn’t fraudulent or carried out under unreliable conditions, a detected XY karyotype doesn't mean you are male, even in nonsocial medical terms, or phenotype without intervention terms. Swyer syndrome can result in a female phenotype with exclusively XY karyotype, and chimerism (possibly combined with Swyer) can result in a female phenotype where XY karyotype would be detected (potentially exclusively, without sampling different tissue in a way that a simple test would not).
No, she’s not, even in terms of assigned gender at birth, and she represents an Islamic country in which she would be imprisoned if she was and was living as a woman.
> despite having previously been deemed ineligible by the International Boxing Association for this reason, after a karyotype test revealed XY chromosomes.
The IBA had already been stripped of its role as a governing body with regard Olympic boxing due to the rather extraordinary and flagrant corruption in that organization (and for that to reach a level intolerable to the IOC is saying quite a bit), but even if the IBA’s claim of karyotype testing wasn’t fraudulent or carried out under unreliable conditions, a detected XY karyotype doesn't mean you are male, even in nonsocial medical terms, or phenotype without intervention terms. Swyer syndrome can result in a female phenotype with exclusively XY karyotype, and chimerism (possibly combined with Swyer) can result in a female phenotype where XY karyotype would be detected (potentially exclusively, without sampling different tissue in a way that a simple test would not).