Khelif won her(sic) first Paris bout on Thursday when her(sic) Italian opponent, Angela Carini, emotionally quit after just 46 seconds and a few punches.
Even though Carini said she wasn’t making a political statement about Khelif, Carini’s tearful abandonment of the bout became a worldwide sensation on social media and in Western culture wars.
Criticism of the two boxers is based partly in the policies and decisions of the IBA, which has been out of the Olympic movement since 2019 after years of IOC concerns about its leadership, integrity and financial transparency.
The IBA disqualified Khelif from its world championships because of what it said were elevated levels of testosterone, and it stripped Lin of a bronze medal because it claimed she(sic) failed to meet unspecified eligibility requirements in a biochemical test.
Why the “sic”? It is possible that Khelif is an intersex person (i.e. not even trans) who was assigned female and grew up socialised as female and has never been anything else. It is incredibly rude to use slurs like this (‘sic’, labelling her a man). Indeed, the international attention and scrutiny to which she has been subject would also be traumatising, as it was, back then, for Caster Semenya. If this is all that Feminist Legal Clinic is going to go for, I’m disappointed. You’re also quite misinformed. Perhaps read Anne Fausto-Sterling’s _Sexing the Body_. Less rhetoric, more actual sensitivity.
There are always possibilities of abnormal bodies or biological force capacities, but rules have to be based on a general scientific fact of the biological differences between the two human sex species
Sic is used to denote a quote known to be false, such as calling ANY XY human a woman, despite what their passport says, which appears to be the basis upon which the IOC allowed these two men (there is another floating around too, Lin) to bash women.
Feminine child hood photos exist for lots of men who’s ‘progressive’ (sic) parents have got onto the trans circus wagon.
The fact is that Khelif is XY, looks like a man and, more importantly, punches like a man.
As a heterosexual male who is XY genetically, it amazes me that women’s rights are trampled in deference to this strange new trend of ‘self identified’ women. I note that it’s only in the west this has happened.
I mean, the IBA has already banned these men from bashing women. So why has the IOC re engaged in this Frankensteinian madness? From the start France was desperate to show the world it’s woke credentials, note the ‘Last Supper with drag queens’ or what ever that obscenity was. So that obviously set the scene for the boxing.
This decision by the IOC was political, not done for any special feelings for intersex people, that tiny percentage of the population who are deformed thus. The facts are that no one who wants to protect their careers in the IOC would dare to question this decision. Just imagine that you worked for the Victorian public service and came out and said that men can’t be women?
A scientific fact is that males have a stronger physical strength than females. To allow males to compete in female sports is not a scientific act but proof that the culture is phallocentric, ie. what males say is the truth is the cultural norm!
The IOC needs to be disbanded and adults put in charge, clearly. Below is IOC boss Thomas Bach informing the world of his profound ignorance of basic year 12 biology or, more likely, trying to hand on to his fancy job and huge income:
“Most scientists categorise females, genetically, as people born with XX chromosomes. But under the IOC’s rules gender and sex have been conflated.
The image of the Games has been impacted by this issue, as well as Bach allowing the Dutch officials to select a convicted child rapist Steven Van de Velde to compete in beach volleyball.
Bach, a man, said: “Let’s be very clear here, we are talking about women’s boxing, and we have two boxers born as women, have been raised as women, who have passports as woman and competed for many years as women. This is the clear definition of a woman, there was never any doubt about them being a woman, what we see now is some want to own the definition of who is a woman.’’
(The Australian 04/08/2023)
Victoria has the ridiculous law that ‘gender identity’ is a legal aspect of sexual biological identity
Further to that, childhood photos and history of her life have been released. People are fond of knee-jerk reactions and could hold off to find out more.