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2024-08-02 02:31:24 UTC
“This is unjust!” yelled Italy’s Olympics boxer Angela Carini after
being twice punched in the face hard by Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and
calling it quits in tears 46 seconds into a women’s welterweight bout.
Hard hits aren’t unusual in boxing, of course, but Khelif is suspected
of being a biological male — and was disqualified at last year’s World
Championships after testing positive for high levels of testosterone.
Thursday’s fight offered a taste of what could happen when biological
males are allowed to compete against biological women.
Another women’s boxer, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, who was also disqualified
from the 2023 world championships — and stripped of her bronze medal
after failing to pass gender-eligibility tests — is set to fight Friday.
Cross your fingers that her opponent, Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova,
doesn’t suffer too badly.
Both Khelif and Lin have passports ID’ing them as female; neither has
claimed to be transgender or intersex — and both competed as women in
Tokyo in 2021.
Intersex athletes in the past have had to maintain a certain
testosterone level to compete against women.
But biological males clearly have an anatomical head start. And that not
only makes competition unfair, but it poses huge risks that their female
opponents may be seriously hurt.
After all, trans women have injured women in sports events before:
In 2022, a North Carolina transgender high-school volleyball player
severely injured a female opponent with a spike to the face.
Last year, a female Massachusetts field hockey player was injured after
being struck off a shot by an opposing transgender player.
In the last few years, the governing bodies of cricket, cycling,
athletics and swimming have tightened eligibility for elite women’s
competitions.
Other sports allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports if
they can show reduced levels of testosterone.
Will it take a female boxer left with life-altering injuries — or worse,
a female boxer killed — before the Olympics governing board (and even
some lefty US towns and states) to ban transgender athletes, or at least
set strict testosterone levels for intersex ones?
We pray not.
Sports leagues must adopt sensible gender-eligibility standards —
including establishing verifiable hormonal levels.
Doing nothing, as Angela Carini said, is “unjust.”
Conversation
Love It Or Leave It Hippies
3 hours ago
This is the most disgraceful and disturbing thing I’ve seen in a long
time. Boxing is the most dangerous barbaric sport in the world and this
freek should not be allowed anywhere near girls boxing. Why not let it
fight children next? Who’s the ESG woke committee member who was more
afraid of being sued than of risking this poor girls life. They should
be arrested and prosecuted fully!!!!
ShawnWild
3 hours ago
The unfortunate irony is that woke suburban women, who claim they are
feminists, have been championing for years. Karma.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/opinion/that-olympics-boxing-match-offered-a-scary-taste-of-possible-harm-when-males-compete-against-females/
being twice punched in the face hard by Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and
calling it quits in tears 46 seconds into a women’s welterweight bout.
Hard hits aren’t unusual in boxing, of course, but Khelif is suspected
of being a biological male — and was disqualified at last year’s World
Championships after testing positive for high levels of testosterone.
Thursday’s fight offered a taste of what could happen when biological
males are allowed to compete against biological women.
Another women’s boxer, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, who was also disqualified
from the 2023 world championships — and stripped of her bronze medal
after failing to pass gender-eligibility tests — is set to fight Friday.
Cross your fingers that her opponent, Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova,
doesn’t suffer too badly.
Both Khelif and Lin have passports ID’ing them as female; neither has
claimed to be transgender or intersex — and both competed as women in
Tokyo in 2021.
Intersex athletes in the past have had to maintain a certain
testosterone level to compete against women.
But biological males clearly have an anatomical head start. And that not
only makes competition unfair, but it poses huge risks that their female
opponents may be seriously hurt.
After all, trans women have injured women in sports events before:
In 2022, a North Carolina transgender high-school volleyball player
severely injured a female opponent with a spike to the face.
Last year, a female Massachusetts field hockey player was injured after
being struck off a shot by an opposing transgender player.
In the last few years, the governing bodies of cricket, cycling,
athletics and swimming have tightened eligibility for elite women’s
competitions.
Other sports allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports if
they can show reduced levels of testosterone.
Will it take a female boxer left with life-altering injuries — or worse,
a female boxer killed — before the Olympics governing board (and even
some lefty US towns and states) to ban transgender athletes, or at least
set strict testosterone levels for intersex ones?
We pray not.
Sports leagues must adopt sensible gender-eligibility standards —
including establishing verifiable hormonal levels.
Doing nothing, as Angela Carini said, is “unjust.”
Conversation
Love It Or Leave It Hippies
3 hours ago
This is the most disgraceful and disturbing thing I’ve seen in a long
time. Boxing is the most dangerous barbaric sport in the world and this
freek should not be allowed anywhere near girls boxing. Why not let it
fight children next? Who’s the ESG woke committee member who was more
afraid of being sued than of risking this poor girls life. They should
be arrested and prosecuted fully!!!!
ShawnWild
3 hours ago
The unfortunate irony is that woke suburban women, who claim they are
feminists, have been championing for years. Karma.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/opinion/that-olympics-boxing-match-offered-a-scary-taste-of-possible-harm-when-males-compete-against-females/