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excellent article @RonnieOatmilk
another angle the article skims is misoginoir, and how that's intrinsically tied to transphobia; how it has been used within sports to attack or push our competition.
there has been a reccuring focus coming from sore losers, radicalised gender criticials; oppertunistic right wing fundamentalists, targetting, often, black and brown atheletes on the world stage when they show signs of beating (usually white) women. it's not dissimilar to caster semenya, the williams sisters and so forth. it's heavily tied up in transphobia, misoginoir, and general reactionary opinions from people seeking to police womens bodies. seemingly to do anything other than train and get better at sport. this noisy empty pipe has been recently emboldend by sports bodies heading to their protests over trans women . protests and changes many warned would lead to greater policing of womens bodies as a whole, as we see here.
some articles on similar caes, discussing misoginoir:
https://gal-dem.com/athletics-war-of-transphobia-and-misogynoir-black-african-women-losing/
https://www.sludge.online/caster-semenya-when-fairness-is-false
https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/what-the-caster-semenya-case-says-about-misogynoir-and-transmisogyny-in-sport-and-beyond/264821
https://www.newsweek.com/serena-williams-greatest-player-all-time-and-classic-case-misogynoir-opinion-1119510
worth noting the male catagory faces no such limits on naturally occuring body diamorphism (it's in fact celebrated). noone would dream of blaming a loss in mens boxing on naturally occuring body physiology of their opponent. they'd be laughed out the room. this paternalistic attitude of "risk" and "danger" in womens sport is is itself rooted in misoginy.