Imane Khelif to box women In The Netherlands' Eindhoven Cup June 6-9

Yeah, but I think you're both right!

Which isn't going to wash when female boxers from various demographics take the test.....

That’s exactly what I should have written…darn it! 😄

It'll be that there are misogynistic assumptions about brown women and how they don't fit into Western standards of feminity and, in such an atmosphere of racism and sexism, Khelif withdraws to preserve Khelif's own dignity and sanity.

Imane Khelif, won’t undergo any testing.

He’ll claim it’s dehumanising/against his human rights and any other excuses he and his team can concoct to allow him to retire from boxing with his ‘dignity’in tact.

Everyone knows he’s (DSD) male but having the test to prove it, will be far too embarrassing for Algeria. They will have to find a ‘face saving’ solution.

That’s what I think will happen.

they must all have crystal balls, unlike Imane who has the standard male issue balls.

Well yippee aye ay. Couldn’t they have said this before? Why does it take so much energy to get these people to see reason and the obvious way out of a situation.

Given they sent a convicted child rapist to the Olympics on their beach volleyball team, protected him from all the media and made his team mate deal with it, this behaviour from them is not surprising.

Next - men out of all women's sports. There's no reason women's sports would benefit from becoming unisex and multiple reasons for keeping it single sex (safety, competition, decency, men already have their own opportunity etc.)

The Netherlands appears to be captured.

Exactly. Take the 2012 Olympic womens 1500m. They chucked the most recent one out last November. British athletes who finished 10th and 11th are now 5th and 6th......

Absolutely. Which is a point that should be hammered home.

They take medals off drugs cheats in athletics, sometimes after as much as a decade post event when the testing has improved. So......

Oh, come Arabella - that's a step TOO far!

He's likely out of the contest - what more do you want?

(Other than a complete end to this bloody insanity and proper investigations about how it got so far...)

It’s fascinating isn’t it.

Well, whoop de do. World Boxing seems to have had a moment of facing up to reality, probably financial reality. It's utterly shit, but I hope sincerely that this is the end of men fighting (I don't use the term competing in such instances) women, worldwide.

There's no glory, or pride for them doing it with bad grace. They knew all along that it was horrible and unaccessible, but they forced it, as a result of their ideology, which they thought would make them popular.

Their inexcusable stupidity has damaged real people; the unfortunate women who felt that they had no choice but to fight these two fucking men.

Will they all start wailing about how terrible it was that they were deceived by a very clever cover-up where it was impossible for them to weigh up the facts?

What's interesting is all the news items assuming that Khelif will be ineligible. Almost like they all know already that he's male.

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/boxing/article/imane-khelif-boxer-barred-competitive-comeback-6c93hqs22

https://news.sky.com/story/imane-khelif-boxer-must-undergo-sex-test-to-compete-in-female-category-world-boxing-says-13377092

This is do great for those awesome female boxers who deserve a fair chance. But come on, now....

Everyone KNEW khelif had y chromosomes, they just didn't accept this made him a man. The idea that khelif was a woman with a medical condition is the one that was reported as fact and garnered sympathy and support from everyone.

We will be hearing in the next few weeks how bigoted and regressive we are, gatekeeper womanhood, bullying khelif for not being womanly enough, making us racist to boot.

And we will be told sex is a spectrum and we have progressed beyond high-school biology and then lectured on DSDs and how an athlete with a y chromosome was once disqualified in the 60s a year before she face birth......

People WANT to believe this shift and they will never believe they were wrong

But even though several opponents have complained that Khelif has immutable physiological advantages, with Mexico’s Brianda Tamara saying after a 2022 bout that she had “never felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, even in my sparring with men”

That's because men who spar with women understand the need to go easy. Unlike men trying to pass themselves off as women.

Delighted to see common sense returning

I am 100% certain IK will not submit a sample for PCR testing. If his cheating was definitively proven it would show up the shameless Algerian sporting bodies and embarrass the IOC clowns. He will slink away quietly so he retains his Paris medal. 😠

Mark Adams, I'm looking at you.

Cheers to that great news!!! It was certainly unexpected !