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Claus Højbjerg Gravholt, a professor of genetic endocrinology, said it is impossible to state everyone with a Y chromosome is a male and everyone with an X chromosome is a female.

Professor Højbjerg Gravholt, who is based at Aarhus University in Denmark and works with patients who have differences in sex development, added: “If I showed you pictures of my patients without any clothes on, you would say, well, these are females that I'm looking at.

“But, in fact, they actually have a Y chromosome. And so it’s really coming back to, what is sex? Is sex something you can see out of the chromosomes? No, it’s not. Is sex something that you can see depending on which hormone, estrogen, or testosterone you preferentially produce? No, it’s not. Sex is much more complicated.”



…for me she’s definitely a female and I don’t know whether I’m completely off base in thinking in terms of ‘advantaged athlete’ and elevated testosterone levels but……ughhhhh, this is a contact sport and it would be careless and lacking in safety to consider there may be an advantage that would make for an ‘unfair fight’…I don’t know if that could be said or not with this case because I have been considering that she’s had losses as well and some really quite convincing ones…/…and that’s part of what makes this all so layered in confusion….