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I know fcuk all about boxing and even less about genetics* - so I’m perfectly placed to comment it seems.

Surely the issue here is that if someone who genetically has the strength of a man fight someone that is 100% a woman, that woman is at a disproportionate risk of serious injury. This isn’t tiddlywinks or the 800m, it’s punching each other in the head until the opponent can’t stand up. So whist it’s clearly going to be rotten not to be allowed to compete for something that isn’t a fault (let alone your fault), it’s not as rotten as, say, increased risk of brain damage or, like, death?

Or am I missing something? Boxing already has weight limits, so if we are saying that generics don’t matter should there be gender categories at all (of course there fcuking should, but the logic prevails).


* I do seem to have become a bit of an expert in insomnia recently though.