Taiwan tries to force everyone to pretend the guy is not a guy.

Taiwanese authorities are attempting to censor leading UK women’s rights campaigners from raising concerns about the Olympics gender furore. Nicola Williams, director of Fair Play For Women, has alerted the Foreign Secretary after being asked by the state to delete posts on social media.

London-based officials from the Taiwan embassy also wrote to The Telegraph to claim reporting “wrongly” referred to their nation’s boxer Lin Yu-ting, along with Algerian Imane Khelif, as “biologically male fighters”.

Since when do countries try to micromanage other countries’ journalism on matters of sport? The Telegraph is not a government body and not answerable to Taiwan. Taiwan has no jurisdiction over UK newspapers.

“President Thomas Bach of the IOC has made it clear that Ms Lin Yu-ting is born as a woman, raised as a woman, has a passport as a woman and has competed for many years as a woman,” officials added.

Ffs. People saying things is just people saying things. It’s just assertion. It’s not self-evidently truth. President Thomas Bach of the IOC is not in a position to know that Lin “is born as a woman”; being “raised as” X is meaningless; “competing as” X is also meaningless.

Williams, meanwhile, was warned of Taiwan’s “gravest concern” after her campaign group posted “the IOC has failed women” after “a second male boxer” became female Olympic champion. Lin, who represented Taiwan under the title “Chinese Taipei” at the Games, is described in the post as “XY”, with Fair Play For Women adding that “male power smashes female talent AGAIN”.

The “Taipei Representative Office in the UK” has now also written to Williams to accuse her of attacking “a biological female based on unfounded accusations, misinformation and her appearance”.

“Such action will only jeopardise the solidarity of women and undermine the genuine spirit of feminism,” the author added. “Therefore, we sincerely urge you to pull out those inappropriate posts on social medias such as X.”

Therefore we sincerely urge you to mind your own damn business. You’re not the boss of us.

The letter to women’s campaigners came as other leading figures to speak out also faced threats. Laura Woods, the ITV and TNT host, has received death threats since complimenting an article on the furore by The Telegraph’s chief sports writer Oliver Brown.

Yeah well. She’s a woman. Women deserve death threats. Unless they have dicks, of course.

Williams, meanwhile, said she was “genuinely shocked to receive this email from the Taiwanese embassy”. “Not only are the Taiwanese authorities wilfully ignoring that established facts about Lin’s male biology are in the public domain, but it is outrageous for it to label well-founded and legitimate concerns as ‘harmful’ and an ‘attack’,” she told Telegraph Sport.

“Our posts stated that Lin is a male and XY, and I would challenge Taiwan to find anything genuinely harmful in that statement. It’s laughable that a country which put a man in the ring to punch women feels entitled to lecture a women’s rights organisation about the ‘solidarity of women’ and ‘spirit of feminism’.

“The fact that a foreign government is trying to strong-arm a British civil society group for not going along with its propaganda should send shivers down the spine of anyone concerned with UK autonomy and freedom of thought and speech.”

It does. Also turns my stomach.