O'Keefe: The 'cold truth' about athletes with biological differences 04:52

Now, this outrage about supposedly biological men competing against women at the Olympics, it's taken off again today. I don't know if you caught any of the boxing last night, but there was an Algerian boxer by the name of Aman Khalif, and she boxed in the women's category, and she punched the absolute daylights out of her Mexican opponent. Now, Aman Khalif...

was previously disqualified from competing in elite women's boxing, not because she was a biological male, but because she was born with a variation of the usual XY male chromosomes. So she was categorized as a DSD athlete, which is known as a difference of sexual development athlete.

Now, World Athletics, it's interesting. So World Athletics bans DSD athletes from competing in the women's division in the 400 metre to the one mile events. And these are events that require speed and endurance. The only way they are allowed to, the DSD athletes, compete is if they have testosterone levels below a certain threshold. Now, Aman Khalif...

She was banned at the Women's Boxing World Championships because her biological makeup was deemed unfair in a combat sport like boxing.

But at the Olympics? No worries, says the IOC. Now, the Daily Telegraph reports that there is an Australian academic working for the International Olympic Committee, and she is advocating for biological men to be able to compete at women at the Olympics. Now, her name is Madeline Pape. She competed herself. She's a former middle-distance Olympian, and she sits on the IOC Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She's a specialist.

And this is a quote, ready, when it comes to all this stuff. The IOC recognises that trans women are women. Now, this is a fraught topic, of course, because depending on the sport, it is nuanced. And testosterone, of course, it naturally occurs in female bodies. It's not just a male chemical. It occurs in female bodies.

And in some instances, there are blokes who have very little testosterone. They compete in Olympics and competitive sport against men who have much more testosterone. Now, I know what I'm about to say may sound cold, but I just don't think there's any other way around this. Biological men cannot compete against biological women in sport. They cannot. Especially combat sports, but really any sport.

And it doesn't matter when said person used puberty blockers, what their levels of testosterone are, yada, yada, yada. Because being a trans adult is absolutely fine. And that person should be supported by the community. Every person, regardless of their gender identity, deserves respect and dignity and the opportunity to be happy. And if transitioning from a biological man to a woman makes someone happy as an adult, then be my guest. Be whoever you want to be.

However, you cannot balance fairness in sporting competition with inclusivity. It doesn't work like that. Biological differences such as muscle mass, bone density, hormonal profiles, impact athletic performance. Of course they do. These differences are significant and have been well documented in sports science. We all know that. When individuals with male physiology compete in women's categories, there is a chasm between

between what is fair and what is not. And each and every one of us, every single human being on earth has been dealt a different hand of cards in life. Physically, psychologically, environmentally, economically. Every human has a different makeup and that allows us to excel at some things and prevents us from doing others. That is just life. If you're a trans woman, your lot in life is you can't play competitive sport against biological women.

That is your lot in life. You might not like it, but that is just how it is. And if you have a variation of the usual XY male chromosome, which gives you a major physical advantage, well, maybe you can't box at the Olympics either. I know this is cold, but it is just true. We all know it's true, and we're trying to squish the square diversity ideology into the round hole of common sense. And I'm sorry to say, it just doesn't work.