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"Whether intentionally or not, it sends the message that these athletes’s gender identities shouldn’t be scrutinized and debased not because doing so is flat-out wrong, but because they’re simply not trans, and therefore these beliefs don’t concern them."

This is a strong point. It's like when McCain addressed "criticism" of Obama being Arab by saying, in essence, no he's not he's a good man! As if those two things are mutually exclusive.

It's also something I overlooked in so far as I'm too narrowly focused on the facts of the matter (Khelif isn't, in fact, trans) and I miss the bigger picture as a result. Thank you for keeping the focus broad.

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