TWO “Female Boxers” Set To Compete At Paris 2024 Were Previously Disqualified From Women’s World Championship For Having “XY Chromosomes”

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Surely this cannot be true. In boxing of all sports. I thought boxing had told men they needed to compete with other men?

”Two athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as “women” were previously disqualified from a women’s world championship for having “XY chromosomes.” Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing next week despite past questions surrounding their biological sex.”

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https://x.com/UTOTALBELLEND/status/1818971531466149991?t=ILabNWgVMMWxbZRj5bOlRQ&s=19

I hope there will be so much sunlight on this that it will not be possible to do the “just move on … nothing to see here”. This is so wrong and needs to stop right now.

https://x.com/AjaTheEmpress/status/1818976060391735414?t=5PhGeAw4BA5Ig9Wo7m2qQQ&s=19

"This is a man punching a woman at the #Olympics2024Paris
This is where we are in the world.
Male violence against women is officially a sport. 🏅
And this isn't over because he has more women to beat up.

#IStandWithAngelaCarini
#BoycottOlympics2024"

Has a rather distressing slowed down version of the punch

From Reduxx but my screen refreshed before I could copy the link

Report in the Guardian via Reuters

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/01/angela-carini-abandons-fight-after-46-seconds-against-imane-khelif

Lovely quote from Carini. Obfuscation over the cheat.

Thank you. Don’t hate to post it. They do better than the BBC, which usually has no integrity when it comes to mentioning matters of sex vs. gender.

The BBC has an internal trans activist censor, or did until recently.

The Guardian has no integrity.

And the BBC are currently misreporting the issue again. Imane Khalif is being reported using female pronouns and the Italian boxer's withdrawal and Khalif's exclusion from previous competitions is being reported as an issue regarding testosterone levels. No mention of Khalif being a man or even transgender. Disgraceful!!!

This is on The World at One.

Was going to say, the IOC may be able to muzzle sporting media, but surely the issues can be covered in news and current affairs programmes?

In the live sports Guardian coverage there were a LOT of comments basically stating the obvious that it was a man beating up a woman. They have all now been moderated when I refreshed the blog. Wish I'd screenshot it.

The guardian are a disgrace. Some comments still remain for those to read between the lines but it's still a disgrace.

And now they've closed the live blog comments!!!! I wonder why??? Cowards...

duc748

You would hope so, but it won't do any good if they continue to talk about the "females" Khelif and Lin, "her" gender, "accepted as female", etc etc. If they use the ideological language they are almost making it worse. Makes it look like sex is a spectrum, depends on how you measure it, etc. What's all the fuss about? Poor things, having their "gender" questioned. We can blame the IOC but media outlets are arguably worse. They are trying to get clicks by whipping up a storm that will anger both sides equally. By and large, they aren't trying to help us.

Edited for clarity and to tag in duc.

I heard this in the car. Complete bloody misdirection. It makes it sound like the issue is performance-enhancing testosterone doping by a biologically female athlete. Talk about missing the mark!

Just seen on BBC that the Italian female boxer withdrew after 40 seconds. They carefully mentioned the two male---- boxers and that they had been disqualified from previous competitions due to ineligibility

I thought their testosterone levels weren't tested?

Are they assuming it's high testosterone, because their sex was tested?

I’m unbelievably furious. How could they allow this to happen (rhetorical question, of course…)? I really feel for Carini who was forced to quit to protect her body from that man

More coverage of the match and the issues (from their perspective) in Time magazine. This bit caught my eye. https://time.com/7006338/imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting-gender-controversy-olympics-women-boxing/

"For her part, Khelif, who became a UNICEF ambassador earlier this year, has said she is most proud of her ability to overcome obstacles, including finding success in a sport that her father didn’t approve of girls participating in. “My dream is to win a gold medal,” she said in March. “I particularly want to inspire girls.”

I’m in Italy at the moment and most people I’ve heard commenting on this (all?) are so angry.

I heard this in the car. Complete bloody misdirection.

Better on telly. Same words but they also showed a clip which makes the situation very clear!

I put his name in YouTube last night. From the thumbnail captions, most seem to think he's trans. Although a caption doesn't give much room for nuance.

Assuming he's got a DSD that affects only males but he insists that he's female then afaic he is trans.

That patronising pat on the shoulder. 🤐

He's male. He knows he's male. He identifies as female.

That's trans, surely?

I am too angry to comment coherently.

This is horrifying, I'm absolutely furious and disgusted at everyone who enabled this.

I thought broadcasters were being their usual mealy-mouthed selves over not mentioning men were competing against women, I had no idea the IOC had actually gagged them. That is absolutely fucking sinister in a way that goes beyond sport and even women's rights.