Here is the IOC’s spokesman Mark Adams ⁦Mark D Adams⁩ Before this statement he says it would be ‘invidious’ and ‘unfair’ on the male boxers in the women’s category to comment on them individually. Just that bit clipped off the top: this is the rest.

Hi @fairplaywomen hope you saw this

“They are women in their passports. It’s incredibly complex”. No, it’s not, @Marq. It’s really not. Passports can be changed to reflect a man’s delusion that he is a woman. You know that, right? Men should compete against other men, especially in a hard contact sport like boxing. You know that too. Why are you so willing to see men punching women?

@Marq Why do men like Mark Adams hate women so much?

@Marq Some points for Mark to help him get on top of his remit: 1) It's very easy to get a passport changed. 2) Sex determination is the opposite of complicated. 3) The individual sport federation did ban these two. The IOC let them compete.

@Marq No, it is very, very simple. Do a chromosome test and if they have a Y, then we treat them as male for the safeguarding of women. Let's see how that works.

Mark, @Marq these are biological male SPORTS MEN - regardless of how they identify or what is on their passport - what a bizarre justification for permitting ANY male to participate in female sports ... gender identity is fluid, optional but sex is fact - these men simply haven't full size male genitalia due to a birth abnormality. We have come a long way from the ignorant days when we never questioned this but you MUST address it and put a stop to this dangerous insanity

@Marq So weirdo @Marq needs a federation to proclaim that BOXING is a sport that confers no inherent advantage to men. Talk about throwing women under the bus. He should be FIRED 👎👎👎

@Marq @Marq it is not ‘incredibly complex.’ Any sport that is divided by sex should be divided by sex. Anything else is unfair and in the case of boxing dangerous.

@Marq Lance Armstrong competed for many years too @Marq - he was also cheating. #FairnessForFemales #SaveWomensSports #SafeFairEqual All 3 medalists in the Women’s Rio 800m competed as women for years - all are still male.

@Marq Barefaced lying... they aren't eligible by rules of the federation. The federation said they weren't eligible, then the IOC took over from the federation and rolled back the rules to a point when men were eligible.