Selective information
NBC News is pretending Khelif and Lin are actually women, not men pretending to be women.
Two boxers who were disqualified from competing with women at a global event last year have been permitted to fight in the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee confirmed.
Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Taiwan failed to meet gender eligibility tests at the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year, prompting their disqualifications. But they have been cleared to compete in the women’s 66-kilogram and women’s 57-kilogram matches in Paris this week, the IOC confirmed in an email Tuesday.
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“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women,” the association’s president, Umar Kremlev, told Russia’s Tass news agency at the time. “According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition.”
Khelif and Lin have both always competed as women, and there’s no indication that either identifies as transgender or intersex, the latter referring to those born with sex characteristics that don’t fit strictly into the male-female gender binary.
Shifty. Very very very shifty. They’ve always “competed as women” – well what does that mean? And the issue isn’t really whether they identify as trans or intersex, but whether they are trans or intersex.
The reporter is an LGBTQ++++ reporter, but if he’s right in his insinuation that Khelif and Lin are not trans then why is this his beat?
This piece isn’t reporting but manipulation.
Okay. So they are male, with male DNA, with male hormones, and, apparently, with male puberty. They are competing as women, against competitors without their male advantages. They have always competed as women, but do not identify as transgender or intersex (which isn’t a good category, and isn’t an identity, it’s a biological reality).
The conclusion one can draw, if one so chooses is that they have lived as men, presented as men, are men, and were allowed to compete against women.
Any other conclusion is just…confusing and incoherent.
I want to find out exactly who drew up the entry criteria for women’s boxing in such a way that men could enter – and then make them personally liable for the consequences. Morally and financially.
Tell them that if a woman is permanently injured by one of the men, they will be forced to pay a substantial amount in compensation and for her lifetime care medical expenses, and rehabilitation (if possible) or adaptations to her home. If she dies, they’re on the hook for compensation to her family, and financial support for her children.
How dare they be so cavalier with the lives of women. Perhaps if they have to put their wallets at risk, they might reconsider.
That’s a point, actually – has anyone notified the insurance companies covering the games that the risk is many times higher than they might have been told? Perhaps they have the clout to get the madness stopped.