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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Waiting with baited breath...

https://x.com/NicolaAdamsOBE/status/1819103872616747311

Exactly. I cannot understand how the Democrats can't see that. But I suspect they are on a purity spiral and don't want the votes of "bigots" anyway.

See I just accidentally end up cupping his balls!

But I suspect they are on a purity spiral and don't want the votes of "bigots" anyway.

I feel for American women voters. To even contemplate voting for Trump... the options are awful. It's a whole other level from holding your nose and voting Tory here.

Fucking A. How sinister can the get!

Also they sooo picked the wrong woman to censor

This is a slightly different take

www.thetimes.com/sport/olympics/article/boxing-ioc-gender-khelif-carini-olympics-paris-owen-slot-hcmrv3fmv

https://archive.ph/maSUL kindly bypass the paywall

Khelif is a victim too, you see 😕

Yes. The America situation is just the shitty icing on a shitty cake. It really does suck.

See I wondered whether the breast pat was yet another moment of male obliviousness. If she had been male as well, that might have been a natural gesture. It’s because she’s female it’s assault. And he isn’t so it slips his mind. Maybe.

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@datun it was Shelagh Fogarty, she is brilliant! She’s on every weekday 1 till 4, well worth a listen.

I have zero sympathy for Khelif. He may be playing by the rules, but he knows he's a man and he knows it's wrong.

Oh, and I see that article mentions Semanya too, "you had Semenya herself, a teenager whose gender was suddenly global headline news. Truly heartbreaking. Everyone loses here." Teenager or not, Semanya must have known exactly what he was doing, and what advantage he had.

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I have massive sympathy for anyone who spent their childhood thinking they were a girl and when puberty hits they realise they are male. That must be fucking horrific. A lot of kids find normal puberty very hard, to have puberty change the sex you thought you were would be a living nightmare for quite a while.

And that would be bad enough if the kid's passion in life was art or computers. But if it was sports. If they really, truly thought they were a truly talented athlete, then they would lose that too. That's heartbreak on top of horror.

However, as utterly shit as that is for them, my sympathy stops when they decide to ignore reality at the expense of women.

And when they paw at a woman's breasts.

So a violent male sex pest gets rewarded. Again. Sigh.

I was wondering what Nicola Adams might have to say, I worry it will be all #bekind.

I think she previously called for separate categories for transgender athletes so 🤞 hopefully she will have something sensible to say.

Thanks for the tip !

Agreed. I think many will vote for independents or just not vote and Trump will get back in by default.

Has anyone just seen this reported on the BBC news? I was surprised at the tone, which seemed to suggest that Khelif shouldn't have been eligible and that the IOC has questions to answer. A departure from how the BBC usually reports on this.

I'm pretty sure they also avoided referring to Khelif as she.

That's right. Very carefully worded.

Was it Dan Roan reporting? He seemed fairly honest in his report earlier.

I just saw the BBC news too. Much more critical and questioning in tone than earlier reports during the day. Although I noted the reporter still talked about an issue of inclusivity and put it before the issue of safety. Twice.

I thought the BBC report was unusual in its tone and seemed to avoid explicitly stating the problem. The reporter was skirting around the issue e.g. by stating that Khelif had failed the 'eligibility test' but not saying what for. However, the report did give the strong sense that the IOC had questions to answer and the row was not going to go away.