A genetically male boxer (XY chromosomes, male-typical levels of testosterone, but not anatomically male) competing as a woman in the Olympics despite failing a gender test won today against an Italian woman, who conceded in just 46 seconds as she cried out “this is unjust“. The Mail has more.
The fight took 46 seconds and [the victor’s] Italian opponent threw her helmet onto the floor as the fight was abandoned.
She refused the handshake, fell to the canvas sobbing as the emotional Italian broke down in tears after just two punches.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, 25, fought Italy’s Angela Carini, 25 despite being banned from a major boxing contest before the Olympics.
After the match was stopped, the referee raised Khelif’s hand in the air. But a visibly furious Carini yanked her hand away from the fight official before exiting the ring without shaking her opponent’s hand.
Ignoring the Algerian, the Italian fighter then dropped to her knees and burst into tears as she said she had never felt such strong blows in a contest before.
Speaking after the match, the heartbroken Italian said: “I have always honoured my country with loyalty. This time I didn’t succeed because I couldn’t fight anymore. So I put an end to the match.'”
She said she did not walk away from the fight as a protest against her opponent’s inclusion, but that was a decision for the Olympics to consider.
She was taken away for medical assessment to examine the seriousness of her facial injuries which included a bruised nose.
Carini’s coach in the mix zone after the fight later said: “I don’t know if her nose is broken. I have to speak with the girl. But many people in Italy tried to call and tell her: ‘Don’t go please: it’s a man, it’s dangerous for you.'”
Worth reading in full.
Sharron Davies, Liz Truss and J.K. Rowling have waded into the controversy:
GB swimming hero Davies has now lashed out at the International Olympics Committee (IOC) for allowing the fight, raging: “This is shocking. The IOC are a bloody disgrace. In effect legalising beating up females. This must stop!!! What the hell’s the matter with them?”
She was joined by former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who wrote on X: “When will this madness stop? Men cannot become women. Why is the British Government not objecting to this?”
While Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling branded the contest “insanity”. In a post yesterday, the gender-critical author wrote: “What will it take to end this insanity? A female boxer left with life-altering injuries? A female boxer killed?”
Posting a video of the fight today, Rowling added: “Watch this (whole thread), then explain why you’re OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn’t sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women.”
In the Spectator, Debbie Hayton says “the International Olympic Committee (IOC) needs to find some far better answers to the transgender question if it is to restore its credibility in eyes of those who care about women’s sport”.
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She should have kicked him in the nuts, which presumably are still attached.
Fight fire with fire.
Why women ever agree to compete with men is beyond me. The solution lays in women acting collectively.
I don’t understand this either. If all women refused to participate in sports and other events with gender-benders participating, it would soon stop. Some women do, but they are a small majority.
Why do women complain then go along with it anyway?
I think a lot of it may do with money. Athletes these days are dependent upon corporate sponsorship to fund them. Say anything “gender-critical” (i.e. tell the scientific and biological truth) and all the companies and corporations which sponsored you will pull out because they have been taken over and intimidated by the woke brigade. That’s the reason.
Yes I suspected it was something to do with that, I just never actually saw it written anywhere nor have I seen a statement by a female athlete alluding to that being the reason. I’ll always apportion blame where it rightly belongs and in this scenario it’s very clear. As I’ve no grievances to air or axe to grind against the opposite sex ( unlike many ) I am clearly able to see here that it was not Angela Carini’s fault she was beaten by a man with a vagina, but the Olympic committee who allowed him to compete with women in the first place. Does a female athlete need to land in hospital before anyone sits up and thinks this may be a bad idea?! If these ‘faux women’ were banned from the world championships then why were they allowed in the Olympics? One would assume that the bar would be even higher. Probably a glimpse of the shambles that was the opening ceremony gives one enough of a clue.
Even odder is the mentality of someone who knows he/she is competing on unfair grounds, and still thinks that their career means something. It suggests either misogyny or a hatred of humanity in general.
I also wish women would take a stand and refuse to compete, though I think it’s more complex than that in that they may lose out on sponsorships, funding, future opportunities etc…not sure of the details, but I think at such a high level it’s not so cut and dry as ”just refuse to do it”. Lots of victim-blaming by the usual people, who continuously feel the need to reduce things to an over-simplistic male vs female issue, such is their obsession with the topic, but I’d say it’s as plain as day where the fault lies and that’s with the Olympic committee, especially if these two boxers were previously disqualified from other big competitions. Surely the higher the level the stricter the entry criteria? I’m just amazed this was allowed to go ahead in the first place because the whole thing reeks of being corrupted by the Woke mind virus;
”Italy’s Angela Carini gave up 1 minute into the fight with Algeria’s Imane Khelif
Carini took a blow to the face & said she “had never been punched that hard before”
Imane Khelif failed a sex test at the World Championship but was allowed in the Olympics.”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1818974965007372625
Seriously, how was this even allowed to go ahead? Absolutely crazy. But keep blaming the female athletes, misogynists…
”The International Olympic Committee has defended its decision to allow two boxers who failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests at the 2023 world championships to compete in Paris.
Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) were disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships with the International Boxing Association president, Umar Kremlev, saying DNA tests had “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded”.
https://x.com/ProvokedGoat/status/1818990167023382755
Indeed, but it would be a good start if men like Mark Adam’s, the BBC, Davos, WEF mouthpiece who is now at IOC didn’t put them in the position in the first place, perhaps?
The simple fact, which is evident whenever an article regarding gender appears, is that some men will always blame women, no matter the context, because they have an innate hatred of the opposite sex. Pure and simple. Doesn’t matter that Adams and other members of the IOC are men, blame the victim, rather than apportioning blame where it belongs.
“You asked for it” seems to be the concensus. And where’ve we heard that before? Where did these female competitors “ask for it”?
I sense they get pleasure out of seeing women get beaten, both physically and with regards to their sporting ambitions being stolen, or any other ambitions, come to that.
Let’s just hope none of them are fathers of daughters because having a parent with such a hostile attitude towards them based purely on their sex would be rather worrying.
I’ve a daughter who plays sports competitively and over my dead body would I have her play against boys. She’s even commented on all of this herself and sees the unfairness without me influencing her. Interestingly, she’s not in a rush to blame the women athletes either. None of this should be normalised or accepted. We’ve made enough sacrifices, spent enough money, time and effort on her sports to have her dreams go up in smoke due to some social contagion that is the Woke mind virus.
Exactly! Women competitors need to grow a pair
Wasn’t this sort of inevitable when society decided legally men and women are equal in all respects, then socialists started demanding women receive equal pay in sports. Go against the laws of nature and one creates perverse incentives for perverse ppl as is the case here. I recall the brilliant Novak Djokovic bemoaning equal pay in tennis and being decried as Hitler.
Schadenfreude – women are equal and just as physically capable as men.
Who says that? Women want an equal playing field, e.g they want to compete against other women. Nobody’s stating that men and women are equal in strength, therefore they can go ahead and compete against each other. Those two boxers in question are more men than women, and yet that’s somehow the problem of the female athletes? It’s the relevant sporting body’s fault for allowing these imposters to enter the women’s event in the first place. I’ve shared this previously;
”While neither have stated they identify as transgender, it is suspected that both are impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), a category of medical conditions encompassing any problem noted at birth where the genitalia are atypical in relation to the chromosomes or gonads.
DSDs in elite sports first came to public attention during the meteoric rise of South African runner Caster Semenya. Semenya’s rapid improvements in performance beginning in 2009 initially triggered suspicions of drug use, and World Athletics (then called the IAAF) was internationally denounced for requesting Semenya take a test to ascertain his biological sex.
Most women, including elite female athletes, have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L), but Semenya has XY chromosomes and male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L.”
https://reduxx.info/breaking-two-female-boxers-set-to-compete-at-paris-2024-were-previously-disqualified-from-womens-world-championship-for-having-xy-chromosomes/
I think it was Sharon Davies who wryly observed that if, as a woman, she had tested for testosterone levels as high as Semenya’s, she would rightly have been banned for doping…
Yes, I agree, a massive part of the problem is the cake and eat it brigade, who want equality in absolutely everything until that equality is disadvantageous. And then it’s “well, there are some differences, but we dictate what’s allowed to be recognised as a difference”. We mustn’t mention that though of course, because, well, that spoils the festival of cake eating.
When did ”society” decide that men and women are equal in sports, in regards to them competing *against* each other? That must have past me by. As I recall, historically females have always competed against other females, males against other males, with the only obvious exception being in racquet sports when they play mixed doubles. In such cases it has *always* been a level playing field. How is a female boxer fighting somebody who has the testosterone levels of a man, but identifying as a woman, ever been acceptable? And given the fact that you can never trans away your sex chromosomes, this just says to me that the Olympic committee should never have allowed these two imposters to compete in the first place because they’re allowing cheating/fraud to take place, preventing the women of reaching their full potential and attaining their rightful sporting achievements.
The cake eating in the comments is always fun to watch – “it’s not cake, it’s a pie. And look, the pie means I can’t eat cake”. Hilarious.
You sound vaccinated to me
Just watch as the woke left who repeatedly said “why do you care?” and “there are only a tiny tiny number, why be so annoyed about it?” head for the hills.
But the really interesting thing this shows IMO, isn’t that it happened. It is the confirmation we have got that “the establishment,” the politicians, the Guardian and Times readers, the “great and the good” the “experts” the bureaucrats and civil servants are in general a bunch of utterly cowardly, myopic fools.
The train has been heading down the track. It had no brakes. We pointed out where the track ends and what the result would be. And they drove the train anyway. Did nothing. Hit the buffers. Now no doubt there will still even be some continuing to try to say we haven’t just witnessed the train hitting the buffers. It’s our lying eyes again!
“…despite failing a gender test…”
Was this test conducted by an “expert”, by any chance?! You’d have to pay me £100,000K a month to pull down blokes’ pants to check if there is (or was) a willy and balls.
F me.
In fairness, MA, there probably weren’t any – he worked his balls off to get to the Olympics. I’m sorry … I’ll get me coat.
Surely they mean “despite failing a sex test”. Over and over “gender” is used where sex is the correct term. Yes, we all know should know the difference, but the ubiquitous use of “gender” instead of sex – even by critics of the whole trans debacle – constantly muddies the waters. He wouldn’t have failed a “gender test” if he put on a dress, some heals and a bit of lippy, would he?!!!
I guarantee that this utter CRAP will stop if women refuse to participate. It will stop very very quickly. In every sport this MUST STOP. Not only here in this all inclusive Woke Fest but in every sport. The Olympic organisers would flip their all inclusive equality political bullshit on its head if their games were in danger from non participant women.
If all the women at the olympics just said, “sorry, we’re not playing any more”, this nonsense would be over tomorrow. The men should too, of course but self-interest suggests they won’t.
”Every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination. As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passports.” IOC statement.
So not based on tests at all then. Also, I’ve just been watching women’s basketball and there’s some very dubious looking ‘women’ in the US team. Even my 12yr old was remarking on these strange-looking women, without any influence on the subject from me.
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1819085503561715755/photo/1
This nonsense will stop if ALL female athletes walk out of the Olympics and refuse to compete.
And that goes for the rest of sporting activities as well: from school onwards.
I’m not sure I agree with the idea suggested by JK Rowling (I think) that this is a case of “men” lording it over women, controlling them, abusing them etc. Most men really aren’t interested in doing those things. Really. No, I think that everyone involved is bewitched by the prevailing woke ethos, and that they’re simply no longer capable of detaching themselves from the blob, of having some cojones (no joke intended) and exercising what we used to call ‘common sense’. Result – a slack-jawed IOC guy insisting that this bloke met their criteria of femininity – an idea than which it’s not possible to invent a sillier one.
Meloni should recall the entire Italian team.
A boxer with XY DSDS (XY chromosomes, male-typical levels of testosterone, but not typically male???? What is that, does he/she have nuts or what?
Morphological she’s a bloke