He doesn’t want to talk about it
Round and round we go with the same old obfuscations.
Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity,” and she called for an end to bullying athletes after being greatly affected by the international backlash against her.
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The vitriol stems from claims by the International Boxing Association, which has been permanently banned from the Olympics, that both Khelif and Lin failed unspecified eligibility tests for the women’s competition at last year’s world championships.
Khelif declined to answer when asked whether she had undergone tests other than doping tests, saying she didn’t want to talk about it.
Ah, well, that’s it then. If he doesn’t want to talk about it we just have to trust him when he says he’s a woman. What possible reason could he have to lie about it?
She expressed gratitude to the International Olympic Committee and its president, Thomas Bach, for standing resolutely behind her while the banned former governing body of Olympic boxing stoked a furor around her participation in Paris.
For standing resolutely behind him for no apparent reason. All they’ve told us in that it’s “in their passports.” To all appearances the IOC does not actually know that Khelif is a woman, so it’s peculiar at best that they’re so resolute about insisting he is.
Khelif started her Olympic run last Thursday with a victory over Angela Carini of Italy, who abandoned the bout after just 46 seconds. Carini later said she regretted her decision and wished to apologize to Khelif.
That unusual ending raised the chatter around Khelif into a roar, drawing comments from the likes of former U.S. President Donald Trump, “Harry Potter” writer J.K. Rowling and others falsely claiming Khelif was a man or transgender.
How does the AP know? How does it know it’s “false” to claim that Khelif is a man? What makes the AP so confident that it knows?
The IOC repeatedly declared her and Lin qualified to participate in the Olympics, and it has decried the murky testing standards and untransparent governance of the IBA, which was banished entirely from the Olympics last year in an unprecedented punishment for a governing body.
But it hasn’t tested them! It cites their passports instead of tests! The IOC can “declare” any old thing, even repeatedly, but that doesn’t automatically make it true.
You’d think journalism could do better than this.
Reverse forced-teaming strikes again. Claiming that 45 and JKR are of the same “like” is a vicious lie, and one that wouldn’t stand any scrutiny more intense than looking out the window to see if it’s raining, but it’s an utterly necessary one to the TRAs, because without it, someone still on the fence might look at JKR’s actual writings on the issue, and above all, they can’t have that.
I am so over the apologists for the IOC claiming that the IBA is both corrupt and Russin controlled. It may well be both, but FFS, have they not paid attention to the corruption of the IOC over the 40 years as well as the corruption in so many national Olympic Committees?
JK Rowling has lots of money. Scrooge McDuck swimming pool full of greenbacks amount of money. JKR plainly called this guy a man. Now, if he could provide a chromosome test result of XX, he could sue her for lying and get all kinds of money out of her. Of course, if he tried to sue her, her lawyers could demand another chromosome test in their view with them being able to observe the chain-of-custody of the sample.
He could do a new chromosome test for himself if he thinks the IBA did him dirty. Since the test results would be his, he would be free to show the results to the world. No “medical privacy” claims could be made.
Yet he (and the other male boxer) just doesn’t seem to want to do this one thing that would tell the truth. Guess they are truthphobes.
Good point!