How Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting—two women boxers fighting in the gender category they were assigned at birth—became the targets of trans panic and subject to another round of “but is she woman enough?” at the Olympics. 

Guest: Rose Eveleth, reporter and host of the podcast Tested, from NPR and CBC.

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