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Olympics Pres: We Would Screen Out Men if Science Could Tell Men and Women Apart

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks on men and women in the Olympic Games.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks on men and women in the Olympic Games.

Science has a foolproof way of telling you whether someone is a man or woman — chromosomes.

If they’re XY, you’re looking at a guy.

Apparently, that memo didn’t make its way over to the office of the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, because he seemed to be a little more confused on the subject in recent comments.

The comments came in response to Bach being pressed by a reporter on the female boxing controversy currently dominating Olympic discourse.

The two finalists in the women’s boxing final, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, failed a chromosome test last year, according to the International Boxing Association.

By implication,

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