OK sure, but... that's why weight classes exist. Boxing and other martial arts are already set up to allow for separating different types of competitor based on physical strength.
Plus:
1) Imane Khelif
is a woman, and has competed as one for years, including
losing a bunch of fights. She's clearly not uniquely dangerous, even within her weight class.
2) The "testing" done to ascertain whether she might have intersex traits is pretty dodgy - the IBA has never revealed publicly what, exactly, was tested, nor what the results were, and they continue to stonewall any requests to publish details. (This is especially relevant because not all intersex traits correlate with, let alone determine, athletic performance.)
3) The IBA is notoriously corrupt, and it's suspicious that the "test results" were first published last year by the organisation's Russian president, who has a vested interest in pushing his government's anti-LGBTQ+ position.
For all the frothing from the usual "women's rights" bigots - who are so concerned with protecting women that they want to test them, inspect them, shove them into a rigidly defined box labelled "REAL WOMEN" and discriminate against anyone who doesn't meet those criteria (and intersex people so often are collateral damage here) - people actually in sport are actually often capable of a much more nuanced perspective:
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