Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
No it wouldn’t have forced the IOC to change their stance. This is why you had a biological male in the female weightlifting category in Tokyo.
The weightlifter met the testosterone requirements outlined by the IOC. There’s certainly a fairness issue in weightlifting - it helped that in this case she wasn’t actually much good. But there’s no safety issue in boxing. So yes, it would certainly have put a lot of pressure on the IOC had results been released proving these boxers have male genetics and testosterone levels - again, the second of those was simultaneously claimed and refuted by the same organisation.

Khelif and Lin equally could have undergone tests to affirm or deny the results of these tests.
They could, but the burden of proof isn’t on them. The IBA are the ones making the claim.

The TL;DR of that Atlantic article is “it’s complicated”, which it is