As supposed concerns about fair competition provided an excuse for scrutinizing and (with casual cruelty) assessing Imane Khelif’s embodiment of femininity, the Olympic boxer became even more of a public spectacle than such powerful women athletes usually do. The most ignorant commentators assert an atavistic, counter factual attachment to binary essentialism—“men are men and women […]

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