I believe this runner is biologically female. If so, I don’t have a problem with her competing against other women. She’s got issues, but being a man competing against women ain’t one of them....
I believe you are right.
The craziness runs deep here, and I am not referring to Nikki Hiltz herself/themself. I was not familiar with this case so I did a search to check it out. The first half a dozen articles at which I glanced were tying themselves up in knots to avoid any direct acknowledgment of Nikki's biological sex (female). I gather that Nikki rebelled at dressing like a girl while still pretty young and that she now regards herself as having been a closeted lesbian through high school. She was actually the homecoming queen in high school; I have no idea whether she was sexually active at that point in her life, with whom, and what her friends and boyfriends knew or thought. A closeted homosexual high school kid is not much of a story. She finally came out as gay in college. A couple of years later, the out and proud lesbian decided that she didn't identify as a woman, at least not all the time, so she's now come out as non-binary and fluid. But somehow, the leftworld press thinks that acknowledging her biological sex is now taboo.
The thing is, the BLTQXYZ activists and most of the media now use labels to confuse, not explain. We are supposed to regard her as trans and her labels as they/them, and the trans label gets conflated with everything else. She's still a biological woman competing in women's sports. I have not seen any indication that she is taking testosterone or any other medications, and my understanding is that she wouldn't because she doesn't identify as a man either.
FWIW, women's soccer had a case similar to this. Rebecca Quinn played girls and women's soccer in Canada and now plays in the NWSL in the U.S. She is a top tier women's player and a longtime workhorse for the Canadian National Women's Team. Her sexuality was never an issue, and it should have never been a matter for public comment except that we now live in the era of nonstop rainbow flag advocacy, so the activists insist it is important we know about the sexual preferences of athletes. So Quinn was a lesbian playing women's soccer. Nobody cared. Then she decided to come out as trans -- but she stayed right where she was, in women's soccer, and settled for a short haircut, changing her pronouns, and dropping her first name. But she still plays women's soccer, so the rainbow coalition PR hype is entirely artificial. Nikki Hiltz is the same.
The point of this nonsense is to condition the public to accept "trans" without question -- so then, if and when Lebron James (to pick an arbitrary example) decides to transition, change his name to Letitia, and play for another 20 years as a top international women's player, he will be unquestionably accepted because the trans label is all we have to know.
“I believe this runner is biologically female.”
No, it is a dude.
Utter, craven, unforgivable stupidity on the part of officials.
Hopefully, he will be banned from competition in Paris.