It’s really just her haircut and her physique that’s different.
Lin Yu-ting’s interview just prior to this Olympics.
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I love the “punches [name I am NOT going to type] in the face” being the thrust of this edition of Daily Mail’s trash populism twist on that
Like yeah… It’s called boxing, that’s known to happen 
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Here’s some real girl on girl boxing
林郁婷 beat Turkey’s Kahraman to advance to the gold medal round. After Yu-ting had left the ring, Kahraman made the X sign to protest her defeat.
I watched the entire bout and recorded the final decision and exit from the ring. I threw it up on my Google Drive if anyone wants to watch it.
Featherweight gold medal bout
Welterweight gold medal bout
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I don’t believe this athlete ever failed a gender test.
The IOC needs to make a new rule and require genetic testing for all athletes, then allow them to complete in the appropriate divisions.
Yeah, but she has probably failed a lot of eye tests, and those are the ones that count. 
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Highlight of the fight.
The Turkish boxer is actually more buff than Lin. Lin is just taller and faster.
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That is how weight classes work. Would be quiet amazing if a boxer was taller and more buff for the same weight.
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Taller sure, not that doesn’t always mean faster. Lin’s reaction time was also way quicker.
Shes got more muscle definition too. Not common for women.
Also long reach, big hands. Tall. Its not just packing on muslce that makes you look like a man.
Men, on average, have quicker reactions than women so if you are trying to make the point that she is of course a woman, the other girl is more buff, she is just taller and faster, it kind of goes against your argument.
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It only goes to show top athletes at this level are not going to fall in your cluster for average people.
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It’s a bit distasteful for a person to quit mid fight, cry, complain rant and insult because she isn’t as good as her competitor…then still get price money. Is this the new erosion of a participation trophy. That Italian female boxer is as cringey as it gets. Especially in a competion that is solwly abor beatung the absolute snot out of the other person. Even if a person doesn’t want the woman to be called a woman, her way about it was truly atrocious and a good example of what poor sportsmanship means. She ought not to bother signing up for world class competitions moving forward until she grows up a bit.
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Kamila Konotop also fails my eye test…
Now competing in 
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She failed mine too. The Mexican and Venezuelan passed. The Venezuelan getting full marks.
If women’s sports are to continue and grow. There needs to be some rules that might make some people unfortunately ineligible. I don’t have an exact answer on what these rules are but it needs to be revisited.
At the current rate. I don’t see many girls wanting to participate if certain chromosomes give you a competitive advantage. And certainly not if trans people are allowed to participate.
These are not issues in men’s sports.
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General comment, not gender related: I’ve been athletic all my life, and have a pretty athletic child. At all levels, there are people who are never, ever, ever going to win. But they go out and compete anyway. Sports wouldn’t exist without them, as the pool would be awfully shallow. And we preach the benefit of sport and competition, even if you don’t win. Winning as the ultimate goal should only be a thing at the pro levels (I know that’s not how it works in real life). As long as fanatics don’t fuck it up, girls will participate.
But we are both guys. More men are interested in sports and are happy to be able to participate.
I don’t think it’s the same for girls in terms of the general enthusiasm towards playing sports.
And I’m not even talking about high levels of competition. I think more people should participate in sports because of the many benefits from health to facing adversity to team work. I’m sure you’ve worked with someone before and thought this person has absolutely no clue how to work in a team before.
To me it seems like a lot of this will be off putting to girls wanting to play sports.
When she was young. Clearly a girl.
Its weightlifting, how you gonna compete if you ain’t on something? Even that famourse Taiwanese girl who is plastered freaking everywhere has a bassy voice.