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Algerian boxer filing legal claim over online harrassment

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GoogleWhacking · 10/08/2024 22:26

news.sky.com/story/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-at-centre-of-olympic-gender-row-files-legal-complaint-over-online-harassment-13195264

She could have put this to bed by sharing DNA tests. I'm struggling to feel sympathy, although it must be horrid.

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Fariha31 · 12/08/2024 18:13

RethinkingLife · 10/08/2024 22:36

Rough translation of original document posted on another thread with some paraphrasing.

After the time for sports, comes the time for justice.

Having just won a gold medal at the 2024 Olympics, the boxer Imane Khelif has decided to begin a new fight, a fight for justice, dignity and honour.

Madame Khelif has filed the complaint for aggravated online harassment to Paris prosecutors.
The investigation will determine who was behind this misogynist, racist and sexist campaign, but will also have to concern itself with those who fed the online lynching.
The iniquitous harassment to which the boxing champion had been subjected will [persist?] as the greatest [free translation: shameful] stain on these Olympic Games.

Best efforts with some freedoms.

Edited

Wont this lawsuit mean the boxer will have to disclose their biological state?
Truth is a defense after all

InvisibleBuffy · 12/08/2024 15:08

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/08/2024 14:20

I didn't use any sort of detector, it was completely obvious that someone used AI to write that. And the poster appears to have vanished now.

Sorry, wasn't pointing at you particularly. Someone screenshot a detector somewhere upthread. I agree its likely it is AI though!

MoltenLasagne · 12/08/2024 14:52

InvisibleBuffy · 12/08/2024 13:58

With regards the AI stuff, I'd be very careful about relying on AI detectors for text. They are notoriously unreliable
That said, I was curious about what people were saying on FB about this and looked up the Olympics boxing tag.
It threw up multiple instances of people saying the same thing. See collage. My phone only let's me combine six screenshot but there were more than that.
Ever since I looked at those, my FB has been littered with these in my recommends and suggested posts. All the same kind of language and length of text. I'm not sure who's churning them out but it's definitely interesting

There's a meme that shows Putin phoning up Kim Jong Un and laughing about the latest issue in the US. I've seen it with many variations, but one that sticks in mind is the one with R. Levine and the non binary staffer that ended up arrested for stealing women's luggage. It makes me wonder how much this issue is being driven by bot farms.

ScrollingLeaves · 12/08/2024 14:28

any009 · 11/08/2024 02:21

What is it with you saying ‘he’ when SHE a woman? I don’t understand how you can be so horrible! she IS A WOMAN not a transsexual a WOMAN. she is from Algeria under Algeria law they do not recognise ANYONE changing their gender so her gender has NOT been changed her dad came out and provided proof of documents everything to show she is female. What is it with everyone? Lies have been spread and everyone is so quick to believe it. Just because she looks like a man does not mean she’s a man. Do more research.

Do more research.

But have you done research? If you look at some excellent articles explaining DSDs posted over the last week, you can understand how a child born in Algeria some years ago with a certain DSD would be understood, from the baby’s body formation, to be female by those around, yet ultimately go through male puberty - because they are essentially male.

This would mean it gave them a physical advantage over females in the boxing competition as well as be a danger to them..

You say, Just because she looks like a man does not mean she’s a man. Likewise, just because she looked like a girl at birth, it does not mean her body inside (DNA, chromosomes, hormones) was female.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/08/2024 14:20

I didn't use any sort of detector, it was completely obvious that someone used AI to write that. And the poster appears to have vanished now.

InvisibleBuffy · 12/08/2024 13:58

With regards the AI stuff, I'd be very careful about relying on AI detectors for text. They are notoriously unreliable
That said, I was curious about what people were saying on FB about this and looked up the Olympics boxing tag.
It threw up multiple instances of people saying the same thing. See collage. My phone only let's me combine six screenshot but there were more than that.
Ever since I looked at those, my FB has been littered with these in my recommends and suggested posts. All the same kind of language and length of text. I'm not sure who's churning them out but it's definitely interesting

Algerian boxer filing legal claim over online harrassment
AutumnCrow · 12/08/2024 13:57

OuterSpaceCadet · 11/08/2024 11:07

Mainstream media, yes agreed.

Normal people, much less so (although TBF much as I strive not to have a twitter echo chamber I do block outright misogynists).

I don't do politics on FB cos it upsets some men in California.

I don't do politics on FB cos it upsets some men in California.

I have a lot of catching up to do on this thread but I just wanted to acknowledge this comment written yesterday from @OuterSpaceCadet.

Cailleach1 · 12/08/2024 13:13

yourhairiswinterfire · 11/08/2024 18:37

You all are not real women

How do you know this Helen hun, have you been peeking at our passports?

I’ll be putting a sticker with ‘Tortoise’ on my passport. Is there a tortoise race anywhere? I’ll be the fastest tortoise in the west. East, south, and north, too. Just a difference in my chromosomes (and species). But what is biological fact when it is inclusion that matters.

sunburnandsangria · 12/08/2024 13:02

@Frasers
"I think that’s quite snide, I wouldn’t either if I was them, just so people can get kicks facts out of their private medical information."
(Fixed that for you.)

When there is public domain information that your biology may convey unfair advantage and possibly undue harm, and you are in receipt of an international world class gold medal having taken advantage of such biology - I'm afraid your 'private' medical information becomes very much public interest.

If Khalif worked in a shop in Algiers and was not a boxer no one would be the slighted bit interested in their medical information.

Frasers · 12/08/2024 12:46

BeyondOlympicLevelProcrastinator · 12/08/2024 12:21

If someone were harassing me online with a lie, I'd probably claim libel as well as harassment.

Interesting that khelif hasnt... 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️

I think that’s quite snide, I wouldn’t either if I was them, just so people can get kicks out of their private medical information.

BeyondOlympicLevelProcrastinator · 12/08/2024 12:21

If someone were harassing me online with a lie, I'd probably claim libel as well as harassment.

Interesting that khelif hasnt... 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️

Twistybranch · 12/08/2024 11:05

Where has the case been filed?

Depends the legal system on whether if it’s the boxer that has to prove it’s a lie or those that called them a man can prove that it’s true.

WeaselCheeks · 12/08/2024 07:22

annejumps · 11/08/2024 23:42

"XY females/women" was the story I was seeing from as soon as this became a story (complete with people telling everyone to educate themselves on this condition they'd only heard of today). People hear that "biological sex is complicated" and assume there must be a lot they can't grasp.

This is so true. People talk of human sex being a spectrum, but it's not - it's binary, male and female, with a tiny minority of people who have medical disorders.

The people with DSDs who end up at the Olympics are always framed as "women with DSDs", when they're actually men with DSDs. Even if they genuinely believe with all their heart that they're women with a condition, ultimately biology and science needs to take precedence over feelings - women are generally at a physical disadvantage to men in terms of strength, etc, that's why we have segregated categories in the first place.

The IOC have really fucked this up. It'll be interesting to see what happens going forward, because we're already seeing males with DSDs - a tiny, tiny percentage of people - massively overrepresented in women's sport, getting podiums. If this isn't resolved, then it'll send out the message to Olympic committees across the world that they need to hunt out people with these conditions if they want medals, killing sport for boring old biological women.

Catsmere · 12/08/2024 02:49

They never hear that the "complicated" cases are extreme outliers. The vast, vast majority of people are simply XX or XY, and the men with DSDs are only prevalent at things like the Olympics because coaches etc go looking for them to foist on women's events. Cheating all the way.

annejumps · 11/08/2024 23:42

wrongthinker · 11/08/2024 23:28

There's no such thing as an XY female.

The people who are fooled by this are insane. And the people who aren't fooled but pretend to believe it are MRAs.

"XY females/women" was the story I was seeing from as soon as this became a story (complete with people telling everyone to educate themselves on this condition they'd only heard of today). People hear that "biological sex is complicated" and assume there must be a lot they can't grasp.

Catsmere · 11/08/2024 23:33

MRAs and TRAs, same thing. Male supremacists.

wrongthinker · 11/08/2024 23:28

duc748 · 11/08/2024 22:52

I thought it was more a case of "Yes, she's XY. And had male levels of testosterone (until we reduced them a bit). But she's still a woman, according to this definition of a woman that I just made up in my head".

There's no such thing as an XY female.

The people who are fooled by this are insane. And the people who aren't fooled but pretend to believe it are MRAs.

duc748 · 11/08/2024 23:14

Yes, he'd clearly given some thought to exactly what he was going to say, and how he was going to say it, in advance.

RedToothBrush · 11/08/2024 23:12

littlbrowndog · 11/08/2024 20:53

Watching Matthew pinset on bbc. He knew exactly what was going on.

I thought that segment was VERY interesting.

He was tactful but spelt it out to those who understood.

Helleofabore · 11/08/2024 23:02

Yes. That is the crux of it.

duc748 · 11/08/2024 22:52

I thought it was more a case of "Yes, she's XY. And had male levels of testosterone (until we reduced them a bit). But she's still a woman, according to this definition of a woman that I just made up in my head".

Helleofabore · 11/08/2024 22:50

wrongthinker · 11/08/2024 22:43

Hasn't Khelif's trainer admitted that he has a DSD?

And that Khelif was ‘suppressing their testosterone’.

No female on the planet has to ‘suppress their testosterone’ to play sport. It is a sure sign that despite all these gaslighting officials, they all know that this boxer is male. Because only male athletes have to suppress their testosterone to play sport in the female category.

wrongthinker · 11/08/2024 22:43

Hasn't Khelif's trainer admitted that he has a DSD?

SinnerBoy · 11/08/2024 22:31

Ingenieur · Today 12:46

Kremlin-Bicêtre is, quite literally, talking bollocks.

littlbrowndog · 11/08/2024 20:59

Watching Thomas Bach tonight. That dude does not have a clue what an arse he was towards women boxers and he didn’t care. INCLUSIVITY