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So how do you decide who fits in a womens sports team?

If all people and genders are welcome in sport what does that mean for women's sport? Is it the right thing that women give up their sporting achievements?

That wasn't my perception. The IOC were the ones that stated Khelif was included in the female category under their rules because that is what the passport said.

I'm pretty sure Mustafa was referring to the issue of people being both male and female simultaneously. Hence the rarity. AFAIK there are no such examples but I'm prepared to be wrong.

Title IX is American legislation that protects female sports. It used to use a defintion that was based on biological sex but has now been extended to include transgender males. The Flying Bats are an Australian women's football team that plays with 6 transgender males. Australian legislation...

If there isn't a lobby it certainly feels like it. From the IOC's work on allowing sports to prioritise fairness, the US government's changes to Title IX, and the Australian legislation that allows the Flying Bats to be successful it must feel like a lobby to female athletes. Governing bodies...

... on both sides of the argument. There is a rational discussion to be had but it's almost impossible. In the meantime female athletes are being treated unfairly with little recourse or sympathy.

That final paragraph does not follow from the previous one.

Could you suggest how this could be resolved sensitively to the former goalkeeper that has lost their place. Or is it OK because they are only part of a tiny, tiny proportion?

It isn't completely separate. This is about male advantage in a female category. If there's no significant male advantage then you don't need female categories.

Gone for a 7. It's too easy to rate the new players. Regardless of how they have done elsewhere they have to fit with the coach's style and the other players. I'm disappointed to be losing Barco, Gilmour, and Buonanotte. I still have concerns about the depth in defence and we haven't done a lot...

Ours in Lincolnshire have gone. Still feels a bit like summer.

Kent to Buffalo NY to see Celine Dion. The then wife was very keen to see her. All tickets were sold but some gigs got cancelled and a few tickets became available when they rescheduled.

Me too. I've enjoyed watching him develop.

And nobody objects to testing that boxers are in the correct weight class.

That isn't quite the point of a female category. You open it up to a suggestion that any male athlete whose genetics did not afford a massively unfair advantage should be in the female category. And somewhere there is a female athlete who could have been at the Olympics but has been stopped from...

The truth is in very short supply on this story. As far as I can tell the only organisation that has tested Khelif has decided they are male (and presumably have always been male) based on chromosomes and excluded them from female competition. The IOC doesn't like the idea of testing for this...

I, then 16, was in the North right at the front with a friend. When it all started Spurs fans piled in from the East. We hung on for a while but gave up and went to check on my Dad and younger sister. They were in their usual place, the little walkway on the west side of the North stand. They...

Absolutely. Anywhere else that's a foul. Late with foot well off the ground and contact made with the player after the ball has gone. Foul and yellow card. Easy to spot with VAR and easy for a ref to miss from behind in real time.

That Wales game was dreadful. Sat on the terraces watching it!