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Opening paragraph of the article: Introduction In 2024, a Tunisian man defeated a Chinese woman for the Olympic women’s boxing gold medal. The spectacle of a biological male pummeling a female athlete shocked many and led to renewed calls to keep men out of women’s sports. However, under today’s civil rights regime, efforts to define and uphold the physical differences between men and women are dismissed as reflections of benighted stereotypes. Even Supreme Court nominees famously seek to evade answering the simple question, “What is a woman?” To protect single-sex women’s sports, we must therefore revisit the deeper feminist settlement that has governed athletics for decades.