I Was Wrong - Imane Khelif IS a Trans Issue - "with training and experience - Khelif has now become unstoppable. As Dr. Emma Hilton explained to me on Heretics this week, men have around 14-20 times more testosterone than women. Having a male boxer share a ring with a woman isn’t just negligent and unprofessional - it’s life-threatening. And it speaks to the utter hypocrisy of woke culture. #BeKind on crack has turned South Park parody into reality just a few years after the death of #MeToo. And that’s why this has to be seen through the lens of trans ideology. I recently wrote that this is not a trans issue. Here’s why I was wrong: Intersex is an intriguing issue that affects 0.018% of the world’s population (despite disinformation suggesting it is higher). It is complex, but commonly involves deficiencies that lead to improper development of genitalia. Regardless of appearance, all intersex people - or people with DSDs - are either male or female. It is also the least appropriate part of the queer umbrella (the I in LGBTQIA+). One of the best books I’ve read in years is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides about an intersex child growing up and experiencing life through the confusing lens of sex ambiguity. I was struck - while enjoying the book - by how little the condition has to do with trans. And yet, there it sits as a divider between the Queers and the Asexuals. As many have pointed out, the T also doesn’t fit, hence the rise of LGB groups that drop the trans. Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals are all people with atypical attractions who had to fight for civil rights. Asexual is just ridiculous, sorry. By all means don’t be attracted to anyone, but I don’t see why we need to know about it. And - depending on the individual - trans is a social contagion, a psychological condition or a sexual fetish. But intersex? It’s the only letter in the queer alphabet that has nothing to do with sexuality, love, psychology or attention-seeking. It’s physical. So - why is it there? The woke have coopted the I for good (well, bad) reason. They think it literally means that a person is born somewhere on a spectrum between the two sexes. This is why we are moving away from the term intersex, although I use it in this article for ease of understanding. This - in their postmodern minds - would imply that sex is on a spectrum. This isn’t the case, but even if it were: most trans people are not intersex. So the idea of a spectrum of sex - false though it may be - does nothing to further the trans ideology. But this is why Imane Khelif is a trans issue. The people who have bought into this woowoo extend way beyond the average woke punter. This goes deep and high up. As Dr. Hilton explained to me, it appears that the International Olympic Committee goes not by chromosomes or testosterone when defining the sex of an athlete, but by gender identity and what it says on their passport. This is gender ideology in action. It sets a precedent and clears a path for trans athletes in the future who had lately been discouraged by the bad press received by Lia Thomas. Khelif’s victory will give them renewed hope. As long as there have been humans, there have been men (and women) looking to exploit loopholes for personal advantage. You’ll have noticed the mainstream media falling over itself to state that Imane “lives as a woman, was identified as a woman at birth, grew up as a girl and has a female passport”. All of this serves to defeat the concept of sex and reality. It moves the Overton Window into utter fabrication and absurdity. It leads to what we have now - a big male boxer from a Muslim country being held up as a hero for beating the shit out of women... This is why so many of us care about the influx of trans ideology. Because if a man can win gold in women’s boxing - what’s next?"
When left wingers call for "kindness" they only mean towards "minorities"
The idea of a spectrum of sex does further trans ideology, because they can talk nonsense about it, claim sex is complicated, claim biological sex is meaningless etc
Obviously, no country will ever cheat by giving a man a woman's passport
Tracey Holmes on X - "As more details come to light in the targeting of Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif, it appears the situation has been highly orchestrated. The latest development involves the Russian delegate to UN Security Council meeting on 'Women, Peace and Security' using the stage to accuse the Olympics of being monopolised by the west and pushing an LGBTQ agenda. Khelif will fight for gold in Paris on Friday against China's Yang Liu. #politics #Paris2024 #Olympics #boxing #agenda #sport #womeninsport"
Claire Lehmann on X - "This narrative assumes that the female Olympic boxers from places as diverse as Italy, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Turkey, & Thailand are all on in the conspiracy as well... not to mention the two CAS recognised labs which ran the 2022-23 tests..."
Visegrád 24 on X - "“I can't win, it's a man” (Nem tudok nyerni, ez férfi) Hungary’s Luca Anna Hamori in despair to her coach during yesterday’s Olympic boxing match against Algeria’s Imane Khelif 🇭🇺🇩🇿"
International Olympic Committee Was Warned About Male Boxers, World Boxing Organization Vice President Says - "A Hungarian sports official has come out and stated that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is not female. István Kovács, the European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization and former Secretary General of the International Boxing Association, told Hungarian press that he had warned the International Olympic Committee about males participating in women’s boxing as early as 2022, but that nothing was done. In a shocking statement made to Magyar Nemzet yesterday, Kovács confirmed the speculation surrounding the Algerian boxer, adding that it had been known as early as 2022 that Khelif was biologically male. “The problem was not with the level of Khelif’s testosterone, because that can be adjusted nowadays, but with the result of the gender test, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” Kovács said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet, adding that a total of five boxers had been examined including Khelif by the International Boxing Association, and all of them “were indeed men.” Kovács asserted that he personally reported the shocking result immediately to the International Olympics Committee, “but as unbelievable as it is, they have not responded to this to this day.” The retired world champion boxer also commented that he recently spoke with former women’s world champion Mária Kovács, who bitterly remarked that in modern women’s boxing, “there is a 20 percent chance that one of the athletes will suffer a testicular injury.” Kovács added that he was actively discouraging Hungary’s Anna Luca Hámori from going ahead with her Olympic match against Khelif, which is set to take place on August 3. While Kovács said that he didn’t believe Khelif was a particularly good boxer, he expressed concerns that Hámori had not been properly trained to fight a male opponent. “The biggest problem is that Hámori can only realize her big dream of winning a medal at the summer games at the first Olympics of her life if she beats a man. She was simply not trained for this,” Kovács said... Marshi Smith, the co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, condemned the IOC after reviewing the shocking revelations made by Kovács. “The cover-up and championing of male athletes in women’s Olympic sports is the greatest sports scandal of our lifetime,” Smith said. The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) is a non-partisan network and advocacy group comprised of current and former collegiate and professional women athletes. Earlier this year, ICONS launched a lawsuit against the NCAA with one dozen female athletes challenging their policies allowing transgender athletes to compete against females and use female locker rooms in college sports. “The IOC MUST reinstate sex verification testing TODAY to begin to prove their commitment to the rights of female athletes. They are impostors promoting gender parity while deliberately deceiving the public and athletes about the true sex of competitors in the world’s most elite and dangerous competition.” In addition to demanding the reinstatement of sex testing at the Olympics, Smith, a former NCAA & PAC-10 Champion Swimmer, is also calling for a thorough investigation to be launched into the impact of the IOC’s policies. “A full and thorough investigation is urgently required, and heads must roll within the IOC to account for this unthinkable injustice against women,” Smith says."
What a huge conspiracy this is. The Russians are really powerful.
Maybe one left wing cope will be that not all men are more athletically capable than female athletes, so this shows that being male does not provide an incontrovertible advantage, so there's no issue with letting men and women compete together. They should just abolish women's sports, then
OPINION: It Doesn't Matter If Olympic Boxer Is Intersex—Women Should Still Be Protected, Not the Minority - "The International Olympic Committee spokesperson, Mark Adams, made a statement defending Khelif, asserting, "Scientifically...this is not a man fighting a woman."... Mark Adams said, “I hope we are all agreed we aren’t going to go back to the bad old days of sex testing.” That's a bad thing? First off, testing for doping is much more invasive and is a recognized universal way to ensure that there is no cheating. And it is considered cheating, even in male sports, to take drugs that give you an abnormal physiological advantage over your opponent. Even as we have compassion for people like Khelif, we must remember that women's sports were created to offer a protected space for the millions of females around the world who previously did not have their own arena. Inclusivity of a minority, even if well-intentioned, at the expense of the majority is injustice. Asking all women to sacrifice their safety and opportunities so that a few select women who were born either male or intersex is wrong. When there is a moral conundrum, sometimes you have to choose what is more right. It is right that people with DSD should be treated with compassion and be able to find their place in the world. It is more right that women's sports be protected for biological females everywhere. This is why the Right is often called anti-trans, or in this case, anti-DSD. In reality, it's not that we are anti-anything, but rather pro-woman. Who are the people making these decisions for female athletes everywhere? Have the female athletes been consulted? Where are the feminists defending women's rights to a safe and fair playing field? As women, we have a responsibility to advocate for our rights and the protection of our spaces. We must also debunk the lie that doing so means we are unfairly excluding others. But truly, only a woman would be expected to include others at her cost anyway, right? Inclusivity of a minority at the expense of a majority is not equality -- it's preference, and it has no place in women's rights. The Women’s World Boxing Championships took place in March of 2023 and was hosted in New Delhi, India. A total of 324 boxers from 64 nations competed during the 10-day trial, marking the largest participation in any iteration of the championship ever recorded. However, the grand event was marred by controversy after Umar Kremlev, president of the IBA, announced the disqualification of multiple boxers from the championship. Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the championship’s grand finale to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism,” after concerns were raised about the biological sex of some participants. Speaking to TASS News, he added that after “a series of DNA-tests,” the IBA “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”... Male athletes with DSDs are sometimes actively sought out by national coaches because of their tremendous “natural” advantage over biological females. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, male runners with DSDs won all three top spots in the Women’s 800m race."
Left wingers do want to include minorities at the expense of the majority, though
The Dangerous Olympic Boxing Gender Experiment - "Despite uncertainty about the precise qualifications and testing monitored by the IBA, it is clear that the Olympic Games have far less stringent requirements. The International Olympic Committee decided in 1999 to end sex-verification screening for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney because, according to a 2000 article published by Genetics in Medicine, the chromosomal testing was expensive, was discriminatory, and emotionally harmed female athletes. In 2015, the IOC effectively removed the “woman” requirement for women’s sports by allowing male competitors who (1) “declared” to be female, and (2) maintain testosterone levels at or below 10 nmol/L for one year, although such a threshold is well above the average female levels. Later, the IOC updated its “inclusion” policies and deferred eligibility considerations to the respective governing body of each sport. The IOC set forth the “principles” that “eligibility criteria” should “not systematically exclude” on the basis of “gender identity” or “sex variations,” and evaluations should not include “medically unnecessary procedures” or “invasive physical examinations” such as “gynaecological examinations.” The Paris 2024 Boxing Unit and IOC released a statement on Thursday about the ongoing controversy and asserted that, like previous competitions, “the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport.” The International Olympic Committee’s “Portrayal Guidelines” argue that “a person’s sex category is not assigned based on genetics alone.” But genetics do determine sex — regardless of what we “assign” or what letter is printed on a passport. The issue isn’t whether the IOC violates its own rules. The issue is that those rules are unjust. Abolishing chromosomal testing and other forms of examinations allowed athletes with rare disorders that provide competitive advantages to participate in women’s divisions... Those of us who have defended women’s sports did not merely state that “trans women” should not be able to compete in those divisions. The argument was that males should be entirely excluded from women’s divisions — and all the available evidence suggests that Semenya, Khelif, and Lin are male, regardless of how they were perceived at birth, how they were raised, and how they identify. We have seen men claim positions on women’s podiums too many times: In July, every two-competitor relay team that medaled in the elite women’s division at the Marymoor Grand Prix in Washington State included a male athlete. Although neither Khelif nor Lin (who coasted to victory on Friday by unanimous decision) has publicly identified as “transgender,” the Olympic Games’ expansive transgender-inclusion policies have enabled battery against women under the guise of “sports” rather than “violence.” Carini is suspected to have a broken nose; she said that “after years of experience, I felt a strong pain in the nose” and she has “never felt a punch like this.” A previous competitor against Khelif, Mexican boxer Brianda Tamara, made similar remarks and stated that Khelif’s “punches hurt me a lot” and, “I don’t think I had ever felt that way in my 13 years as a boxer, not even in my sparring with men.” Make no mistake: A male swimmer might outpace his female competitors and claim their trophies, but a male boxer can put a female boxer in serious danger. The IOC should revise its guidelines before the Games turn into a tragedy."
Meme - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @Rob_ThaBuilder: "I cannot stress enough how absolutely inappropriate it would be for a man to be touching an Algerian woman in this way in public. There is simply no way an Algerian woman would be touched like this by men in public, Its the literal definition of haram #ParisOlympics2024"
Sharron Davies encourages Khelif and Lin’s opponents to challenge defeats - "The former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has encouraged the women beaten by the two boxers embroiled in the Olympics gender eligibility row to challenge the results of their bouts... Davies, a silver medallist at the 1980 Olympics in the 400m individual medley behind Petra Schneider from East Germany, who subsequently admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs, said she feared that the defeated opponents of Khelif and Lin were too scared to challenge the fight results. Speaking on a panel for Sex Matters, a campaign group on issues relating to women’s rights, she said: “You’d like to think that there ought to be [a route to legal challenge], from a duty of care perspective. “It is the job of any organisation, whether that is a school or a sports club or a governing body, or, in fact, a world governing body like the IOC, to have a responsibility to safety. “At the moment they are definitely negligent in this area when it comes to female athletes. They are not considering the damage, the potential damage, of putting a male athlete in with a female athlete. So if I was one of those female athletes, I would be trying to pursue this for sure. “The problem we’ve got is that these female athletes are very young. They are very intimidated. They are very silenced. And the IOC puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the government and the national associations to make their athletes sign documentation which stops them, which takes away their voices. And that is also a problem that we have.”... At the end of Lin’s past two bouts, her opponents have made an X shape with their fingers in an apparent protest relating to the IBA’s alleged discovery that Lin – and Khelif – had male XY chromosomes. The IBA has said it is unable to publish the results of the gender tests carried out on Khelif and Lin, who are fighting on Friday and Saturday respectively, because of non-disclosure clauses. Chris Roberts, its secretary general, said the two women had a “duty” to the sport to be open and called on them both to be tested again and to make public the results. He said: “They owe it to their opponents and their community to be upfront and to be honest about all of this. They owe that to their opponents. And, you know, I call for for them to have another test, if that’s the case.” Davies said the IOC had failed women throughout her own career and was doing so again. She said: “People have to look back at the history of the IOC and their horrendous history of looking after female athletes. “The reason I speak out is, for 20 years, they allowed the East German state to dope young women, 11, 12, 13 years old, full of testosterone. Every single person in the track, in the swimming pool, at the rowing venue, knew exactly what was going on. The IOC did nothing. “For 20 years they allowed female athletes to be cheated out of their medals and they allowed these young East German girls to be poisoned, to the state that all of them have health issues, and many of them have died. The history of the IOC defending female athletes is atrocious.”"
Colin Wright on X - "MEDIA: "Image Khelif was assigned female at birth and identifies as a woman, making her a cisgender woman."
"Assigned female at birth" ≠ Female
"Cisgender woman" ≠ Female
Enough with this ideological language engineered to avoid contact with reality. Imane Khelif is male."
Are the Olympic Boxers’ XY DNA Test Results ‘Russian Disinformation’? - "Imagine you are a female boxer who has become the target of a Russian disinformation campaign. This campaign aims to prevent you from competing against other women by falsely claiming that multiple DNA tests have proven you are biologically male. This disinformation is used as grounds to disqualify you. Now, consider your possible responses. Would you A) Do absolutely nothing; B) Immediately appeal the decision and make your lab results public to clear your name and continue competing as a woman; or C) Refuse to appeal your disqualification and demand that the DNA test results never be released, allowing false rumors about your sex to proliferate unchecked? If you chose B—appeal the decision and prove your sex—you align with approximately 98 percent of women who responded to an informal poll on X, stating they would take the same action in such a situation. This thought experiment may seem absurdly hypothetical, but it actually reflects a current controversy involving Olympic boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting, who were disqualified by the International Boxing Association for not meeting the IBA’s XX chromosome requirement to compete as women. In response, activists and media outlets have been fervently scrambling to defend their inclusion in the female category at the Paris Olympics. Initially, the narratives sought out rare developmental conditions known as differences of sexual development, or DSDs, which could potentially result in a woman having XY chromosomes... However, as the public has learned more about why DSDs like Swyer syndrome or partial androgen insensitivity syndrome do not support their preferred outcome, they’ve switched to a new line of attack. They now claim that the assertions about Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting having XY chromosomes are “Russian disinformation.”"
Khelif defenders are claiming the IBA is suspect because it's not releasing the test results. But if it had, they'd be bashing it for violating the athletes' privacy and releasing protected medical information. There's no way to win
Fact vs Fiction: Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Is Male and Should Not Be Allowed To Fight Women - "While progressive activists generally support allowing males who identify as women to compete in women’s sports, the Left’s assault on language surrounding sex and gender has led to widespread confusion across the political spectrum. Misinformation has rapidly filled this vacuum of understanding. It appears that nobody is entirely sure what’s going on and, in the absence of clear facts, each side has opted to slide into the well-worn grooves of tribal political discourse they’re accustomed to. The narratives from the political Right have been predictably volatile, referring to Khelif as a “man,” a “cheater,” and someone who perhaps enjoys harming and abusing women. Of course, this reaction is somewhat understandable given the rise of men being allowed to compete against women, with some, such as Fallon Fox, seeming to relish such abuse. After fracturing woman’s skull during a fight, Fox provocatively posted on social media: “And just so you know, I enjoyed it. See, I love smacking up TERFS in the cage who talk transphobic nonsense. It’s bliss! Don’t be mad.”"
Does Imane Khelif Belong in the Women’s Ring? - WSJ - "The International Boxing Association disqualified Imane Khelif from the 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships for failing two laboratory tests. The IBA didn’t specify the tests but said they weren’t related to testosterone levels. In 2023, IBA President Umar Kremlev stated that several boxers had been disqualified from IBA competition following “a series of DNA tests,” later clarifying that these athletes “had XY chromosomes”—that is, they were genetically male. IBA rules define “Women/Female/Girl” as “an individual with chromosome XX.” We can therefore deduce that Imane Khelif was disqualified for having XY chromosomes. DSDs can prevent a person who is genetically male from developing male physical traits. One is Swyer syndrome, which occurs when the SRY gene on the Y chromosome, which directs male development, is missing or inactive. Without this gene, the body can’t develop testes. Instead, the gonads remain undifferentiated. No testes means no testosterone production, so the fetus develops female internal and external anatomy. The lack of testosterone also prevents male puberty, a process that confers masculine features and a physical advantage in sports. Given Imane Khelif’s masculine features and upper-body muscle mass, we can almost certainly rule out Swyer syndrome. Another possibility is complete or partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, known respectively as CAIS or PAIS. Persons with this condition have XY chromosomes, develop normal testes, and produce male levels of testosterone. But their cells have defective androgen receptors that respond poorly if at all to testosterone. People with complete androgen insensitivity exhibit a totally female external presentation, despite being biologically male. Given Imane Khelif’s androgynous appearance, complete androgen insensitivity can be ruled out. Partial androgen insensitivity is a possibility. Individuals with PAIS undergo a partial male puberty, which confers physical advantages in sports, justifying their exclusion from the female category. The most probable DSD for Imane Khelif is 5-alpha reductase deficiency, or 5-ARD. People with 5-ARD have XY chromosomes and testes that produce testosterone. But because of a gene mutation affecting the 5-alpha reductase enzyme, their testosterone can’t be converted to dihydrotestosterone, which is essential for developing male genitals. People with 5-ARD, though biologically male, are born with female-appearing or ambiguous external genitals, leading to potential misidentification as female at birth. Many with 5-ARD are raised as girls, only discovering their condition at puberty when their internal testes trigger male puberty. This results in masculine features and a physical advantage over women in sports. South Africa’s Caster Semenya, who won Olympic gold medals in the 800 meters twice, has 5-ARD. Transgender activists describe the runner as a “cisgender” woman with a vagina who “naturally” produces high levels of testosterone. The mainstream-media misinformation campaign was so effective that many are unaware that Caster Semenya is biologically male with functioning testes and XY chromosomes. “Cisgender” usually refers to people whose “gender identity” matches their sex, but in this case it obscures the fact that the runner’s sex was misidentified at birth. Why can Imane Khelif compete as a woman in the Paris Olympics despite having male chromosomes, visual evidence of high testosterone, and the IBA’s disqualification? Because in June 2023, the International Olympic Committee announced that boxing events at the Paris Olympics wouldn’t be run by the IBA, citing “very concerning issues” with its “governance and its refereeing and judging system.” The IOC promised a new system that “puts boxers first” by “lowering the complexity of the qualification process,” but no guidelines were ever specified. This incompetence is staggering. Allowing males to compete against females in any sport requiring strength or speed is unfair, but including them in women’s combat sports completely disregards women’s safety. It isn’t an exaggeration to say that disregarding biology in the name of ideology may get someone killed."
Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙♀️🦉🐈⬛ 🦖 on X - "The IOC says they have no idea how to tell a man from a woman any more. None. They just don’t know. If anyone knows they would like you to please help them out."
mirax on X - "If you can't tell men and women apart you fucking liars, why have male-female categories?"
Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙♀️🦉🐈⬛ 🦖 on X - "The IOC demanded that the video be removed. Even though it was less than two seconds of video. My account was locked until I took it down. I can’t show you Lin Yu Ting punching Esra Yildiz Kahraman in the back of the head so hard her throat ends up against the ropes."
IOC is actively exposing female boxers to extreme harm - "Italian boxer Angela Carini is going to be punched in the head by an opponent who has failed a sex test to fight against women. We already know the punishment that Imane Khelif is capable of inflicting: in 2022, the Algerian landed shots of such force on Mexico’s Brianda Tamara that the beaten fighter said she was grateful simply to escape the ring alive. The International Olympic Committee is aware of all this. The dispute over Khelif’s biology is recorded in its official Games notes. And yet in a sport where the danger of death is ever-present, and despite studies documenting that men punch 2.6 times harder than women, its response is simply to sit back and do nothing. It is difficult to imagine a more wretched dereliction of duty. Forget merely discriminating against female athletes, the IOC is now actively exposing them to the potential for extreme harm. In Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, these Olympics have two boxers thrown out of last year’s world championships due to concerns over their testosterone levels. So what are they doing in Paris? Mark Adams, the IOC’s spokesman, sounded irritated that anyone had the temerity to ask. “These boxers are entirely eligible – they are women on their passports,” he bristled. “It’s not helpful to start stigmatising people like this. We all have a responsibility not to turn it into some kind of witch-hunt.” The far greater responsibility, you would think, is for the most powerful governing body in world sport to protect women’s safety. But never mind holding themselves accountable, the IOC would rather shame anyone critical of the boxers’ involvement for not being kind enough. Adams’ use of the passport defence is particularly risible. In 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport formally established that human biology, rather than legal status or gender identity, was the only means of determining an insuperable male advantage. And now the IOC dares to accuse those asking questions of “stigmatising”? Barry McGuigan, the former world featherweight champion, puts it best. “Mark Adams,” he says, “wouldn’t know a left hook from a fish hook.”... Caitlin Parker, captain of the Australian boxing team here, said of the inclusion of two previously disqualified boxers: “It can be incredibly dangerous. I don’t agree with it. It’s not like I haven’t sparred men before, but for combat sports it should be seriously looked into. Biologically, genetically, I really hope the organisations get their act together.” Some hope. The IOC is so blinded by gender ideology that it appears to care far more about curating a progressive image than about ensuring female boxers are not gravely hurt. Look, for example, at how it operates on the transgender issue. At the height of the furore over Laurel Hubbard, a biological male competing in Olympic women’s weightlifting in Tokyo, Dr Richard Budgett, their medical director, blithely declared: “Everybody accepts that trans women are women.” Really, Richard? Why then, in the three years since, have several major Olympic sports – from athletics to cycling to swimming – reserved the women’s category exclusively for those born female? You would have thought by now that the IOC could see which way the wind is blowing. But it is still devoted to a gospel where inclusion trumps fairness and even, in the case of boxing, safety. This is what Madeleine Pape, its “gender equality, diversity and inclusion specialist”, said last month at their Lausanne headquarters about the transgender row: “The IOC recognise that trans women are women. We need to get away from an abstract debate that calls into question the existence of a women’s category altogether. Put that aside and really focus on the human beings at the centre of it.” What about focusing on the women ignored by these fatuous statements? Not to put too fine a point on it, what about the IOC doing its job? The controversy involving the two boxers is distinct from the Hubbard furore, in that nobody is suggesting that they have transitioned. But the fact that they have failed testosterone tests creates a worry that they are carrying an immutable advantage into the most lethal sport of all. This is a concern that the IOC is ethically compelled to address. Instead it washes its hands, punting it straight back to the federations. “Ask the individual sports,” it says. “Ask the IOC,” those sports reply. And round and round in circles we go. It is a moral and intellectual vacuum that has brought us to this point, where those in power are more preoccupied with the rhetoric of inclusion than with doing what is right for women. A striking statement was issued by the International Boxing Association on Wednesday night, directly accusing the IOC of “permitting athletes with competitive advantages to compete in their events”. Now we have arrived at the logical end game, with a woman entering a boxing ring unsure of the sex of the person she is facing. As failures of sporting governance go, this might be the most reprehensible yet."
Left wingers are mocking female boxers who are concerned about going up against male ones, claiming that they signed up to it. Presumably they want to abolish sex divisions too (since they even have a cope that sex divisions are there because female athletes perform even better than male ones)
Paris 2024 women's boxing stirs so much emotion -- can facts take back the moment? - "In boxing, asserted Gabriele Martelle, chair of the IBA coaches commission, “When there is an unfair advantage, people can die.” He also said, “We had two cases of disqualification,” adding a moment later, “They were publicly banned because of the rules.” And: “This is a sport. We have rules. If you cannot comply, I am sorry. It’s not discrimination. It’s just the rules.” 3 Wire Sports has seen the test results and a June 5, 2023 IBA letter to the IOC that says tests of Khelif, one in New Delhi, a prior test in Istanbul at the 2022 world championships, “concluded the boxer’s DNA was that of a male consisting of XY chromosomes.” For both Khelif and Lin, the New Delhi test – from, as IBA disclosed Monday, the independent Dr Lal PathLabs – consists of three pages. In part:
The first page provides, along with basic identifying information for each athlete and date and time of sample collection, result summary – “abnormal” – and interpretation – “chromosome analysis reveals Male karyotype.” The second page offers photographic representation of the 22 paired autosomes and then, for each athlete, further depicts an X and a Y chromosome. Page three makes plain that the lab is a “national reference lab” and, as well, accredited by CAP, the Northfield, Illinois-based College of American Pathologists, and certified by the ISO, the Swiss-based International Organization for Standardization...
the IOC has gone to considerable lengths in promoting the Paris Olympics as a Games of female equality. For the first time in Olympic history, on the field of play it’s 50% female, 50% male. And yet a controversy erupted over athletes testing as XY in women’s boxing. Which the IOC knew about, in June 2023. There is no dispute about that. None...
how hard is it to forge a passport? Virtually every teen girl in America knows how, and where, to get a fake ID – typically, a bogus driver’s license...
it is helpful in assessing the documents to turn to a saying that any first-year law student knows: res ipsa loquitur. This means: the thing speaks for itself. Put another way, whatever the noise, the test results say what they say. Lin has been competing in IBA events since 2017, Khelif 2018. Following “many complaints from several coaches,” IBA said in a statement it also put out Monday, the two boxers “agreed to gender testing.” At the Istanbul worlds in 2022, each gave a blood sample. Collection was made May 17, one at 1:38 p.m., the other at 1:39 p.m. The independent Sistem Tip Lab, which as the IBA statement notes carries license No. 194-MRK, issued reports May 24. For both athletes, there is a summary on page 2 that says the same thing... In its statement, IBA said the sole Istanbul test was “not enough to make a decision with respective consequences,” reasoning that with “one test, [a] mistake is possible.” It said lawyers “advised to monitor the situation and to contact the IOC.” It asserted it informed the IOC but got no response. “The situation was completely new to boxing, and IBA, following numerous consultations, decided to conduct a second testing before disqualifying the boxers”... “We are not allowed to publish these documents without the agreement of the person concerned,” the IBA said... Both athletes, meantime, were afforded the chance to appeal the DQs to the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport. Lin did not appeal. So, the IBA’s position is the disqualification in Lin’s case “became legal and binding.” To follow IBA logic – Lin is still, under its rules, DQ’d. Thus, if it were running the tournament here, Lin would not be eligible. Khelif initially appealed. On July 27, 2023, after Khelif did not opt to pay to continue the case, CAS said it was over. Same logic — here, Khelif would be ineligible."
Left wingers keep insisting that it's been "proven" that she is a woman. Clearly independent labs are compromised and are pushing "Russian misinformation" too. Odd.
REDUXX on X - "Yesterday, the International Boxing Association held a press conference addressing the concerns surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting. 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘹𝘹 has created a supercut of relevant sections.
TIMESTAMPS:
𝟬𝟬:𝟮𝟯 - Both boxers had the ability to appeal their disqualification at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with IBA covering the majority of their legal costs.
𝟬𝟮:𝟰𝟵 - The International Olympic Committee knew that Lin and Khelif were male, but did nothing.
𝟬𝟯:𝟮𝟬 - Both the Algerian and Taiwanese Olympic Committees have refused to allow IBA to release the results of the tests.
𝟬𝟯:𝟱𝟬 - "Read between the lines."
𝟬𝟳:𝟬𝟮 - Dr. Filippatos: "The biological world does not change."
𝟭𝟬:𝟰𝟬 - A ringside examination of Lin and Khelif in 2022 prompted a blood examination to seek answers about their karyotype.
𝟭𝟭:𝟮𝟬 - "Women's category must be only women."
𝟭𝟯:𝟰𝟬 - Question from a journalist regarding why the IBA waited until 2023 to disqualify Lin and Khelif.
𝟭𝟱:𝟱𝟬 - "The safety of the boxers comes as the first and most important rule."
𝟭𝟵:𝟰𝟬 - "It's not discrimination, it's just the rules."
𝟮𝟮:𝟮𝟬 - Lin and Khelif are biologically male.
𝟮𝟯:𝟯𝟬 - The women's category must be defined by those who have a female karyotype (XX).
𝟮𝟯:𝟰𝟬 - Question from a journalist on "Russian disinformation campaigns."
𝟮𝟱:𝟬𝟱 - Lin and Khelif were reported by other boxers and coaches. They were subjected to two tests in two different countries for certainty.
𝟮𝟱:𝟮𝟬 - "There is no conspiracy theory." Again reiterating that Algeria and Taiwan will not allow the IBA to release the results of the tests.
𝟮𝟱:𝟰𝟲 - Question from a journalist asking why Lin and Khelif were only disqualified after their failed chromosomal tests rather than suspended.
𝟮𝟲:𝟯𝟮 - Question from a journalist on the "timing" of the press conference.
𝟮𝟴:𝟮𝟬 -"If the athletes want to prove they were born women, they have to do it themselves. They didn't do that.""
XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained - "The Paris 2024 iteration of this debate is arguably the most explosive ever due to a confluence of at least three factors:
This time around, the athletes are boxers not runners, which means they’re going to be punching their competitors. Physical safety and gender norms, not just competitive fairness, are front-and-centre in people’s minds. After the debates about Lia Thomas and Caster Semenya... the public knows a lot more—though still not enough—about the two categories of XY athletes who might be included in female competition: transwomen like Thomas and people like Semenya with disorders or differences of sex development (DSD). DSD are also sometimes called intersex conditions or sex variations by those who prefer non-medical terms. The domestic culture wars around sex and gender have since heated up significantly to become a global battle...
Officials from the IBA have separately added that both fighters have XY chromosomes and high testosterone (“high T”) levels... male and female T levels diverge at about the age of thirteen... there’s no overlap in male and female T levels after early adolescence. Doping and being male are two ways that an adult athlete might have “high T.”... the only DSD of concern to sport affect genetic males who are also androgen sensitive—either fully, e.g. in the case of athletes with 5 alpha reductase deficiency (5-ARD), or substantially, e.g. in the case of athletes with partial androgen insensitivity (PAIS). This makes policy sense. The point of the female category is to ensure that females only compete against each other and not against those with male biological advantage, and androgens are the primary driver of sex differences in athletic performance. As rough and insensitive as sex testing has been historically, the basic goal has remained constant. Athletes with 5-ARD and PAIS have an XY chromosomal complement; they have testes; their testes produce testosterone well outside of the normal female range; their androgen receptors read and process their “high T”; and as a result, their bodies masculinise through childhood and puberty in the ways that matter for sport. Thereafter, their circulating T levels continue to have their usual performance-enhancing effects. In other words—as shown in Figure 3 below, which compares athletes with 5-ARD to transwomen and sex-typical males and females—their variations from the male norm (such as underdeveloped external genitalia) are irrelevant to athletic performance. When they enter female competition, they carry male advantage... this volatile situation is almost entirely of the IOC’s own making. It’s sending impossibly mixed messages that were to be expected given its complicated relationship to sex and gender in sport.
the IOC issued a language guide that disallows the use of sex-based language to describe athletes at the Games and that requires the treatment of gender diverse XY athletes who identify as women to be unequivocal: they are women. This language guide follows from the positions the IOC took in 2021 that gender diverse XY athletes should not be considered to have male advantage in the arena simply because they’re male, and that male T levels shouldn’t be disqualifying—despite their scientifically well-understood role as the primary driver of the performance gap between the best males and the best females.
The idea was to make the controversy about XY athletes like Caster Semenya and Lia Thomas in the female category disappear by disappearing the relevant biology and the language we use to talk about it... the IOC has acknowledged that after Khelif’s first win on Thursday, it scrubbed from its own website the notation that at least Khelif—if not also Lin—has high T. To explain this, it said in part that T levels don’t matter, that lots of females also have high T. This is intentionally misleading. Female athletes with high T—including those with polycystic ovaries—have T levels towards the top of the female range, not outside of the female range or inside the male range. Their sex is not in doubt. As I explained above, “high T” in an athlete who seeks to compete in the female category is code in international sports for either doping with exogenous androgens or being biologically male with bioavailable endogenous androgens. There’s no indication that either Khelif or Lin is doping. As an aside, the reason many federations and the IOC itself for years used T as a proxy for sex is that it’s an excellent one: neither ovaries nor adrenal glands produce T in the male range, only testes do. If you’re looking for biological sex rather than legal gender, it’s certainly more accurate than a passport. The IOC has also said that it has given up sex testing because there’s no way to get it right practically and in a nondiscriminatory fashion and because scientifically there’s consensus Khelif and Lin are women. It is impossible to reconcile the IOC’s statements here, even if you’re an insider. Either they had experts look at the files on the athletes or they didn’t. If they didn’t, there can’t be scientific consensus about anything. By contrast, the rest is internally consistent. For political reasons in general, not with respect to Khelif and Lin in particular, the IOC doesn’t want to test athletes for sex because, in its view, it’s “impractical”—meaning expensive in the multiple ways it cares about—and “discriminatory” against XY athletes who identify as women...
Olympic Movement politics are a huge factor in this story in at least two ways, both of which I’ve mentioned already. The first of these is the IOC’s fight with the IBA. The IBA happens to be aligned with the Kremlin, which is separately hostile to the IOC for its stances on doping and the war in Ukraine. The second is the IOC’s policy choice to align itself with trans-rights advocates and against advocates for a sex-based female category. Here, the IOC is not just at odds with the IBA but also with some of the Olympic Movement’s most important federations like World Athletics and World Aquatics. Unlike the IOC, these federations are determined to prioritise fairness and the preservation of the female category for female athletes. The Khelif and Lin cases demonstrate that everyone loses out when the eligibility rules are not firmly set in a way that’s consistent with the goals of the competition category. The firestorm this issue regularly and predictably causes, and the consequent damage to the organisations and athletes involved, should catalyse change. Continuing to push the matter away—as the IBA and other federations, including most prominently FIFA, have done over the years—only means that further ugly controversies will arise in the future...
the female category in elite sport has no raison d’être apart from the biological sex differences that lead to sex differences in performance and the gap between the top male and female athletes. The suggestion that we could choose to rationalise the category differently—for instance, on the basis of self-declared gender identity—or that we could make increasingly numerous exceptions in the interests of inclusion (as the IOC seems to have done to allow Khelif and Lin to compete in Paris) has no legs outside of certain progressive enclaves. Second, any eligibility standard—like the IOC’s framework—that denies or disregards sex-linked biology is necessarily category-defeating."
A left winger: "good. Bro doesn't even understand genetics anymore. Phd revoked". So much for trusting the experts. That's only when they push the left wing agenda
