Those with the loudest
But how deeply sad that a global event with so, so many stories — ones of triumph, adversity, heartbreak and sheer, hard work against all odds — should focus on the back stories of these two individuals.
Everyone has their opinion. And everyone is entitled to their opinion.
But those with the loudest, people such as JK Rowling — who should really get back to Privet Drive and lay off some of the militant anti-trans stuff — need to be careful.
When the author labelled the athletes “male”, she knew what she was doing: Stirring up her cauldron of hatred and winding up the ill-informed masses.
Her “cauldron”; get it? She’s a…rhymes with “bitch.”
Yeah gee what could be more witchy and bitchy than pointing out that male people should not infiltrate women’s sports.
It was deeply irresponsible.
Because in Algeria, where Khelif is from, it is illegal to be gay, let alone trans, which, let’s face it, is what the boxer stands accused of being.
No it isn’t. He’s accused of being male.
Very unhelpfully, the boxers themselves and their governing bodies are also refusing to say exactly what tests they had done. And in this, some blame lies with them.
Do the pair have conditions such as Swyer Syndrome which means they have female reproductive organs but higher levels of testosterone? Are they intersex? How raised is their testosterone?
Of course, they shouldn’t have to drop their shorts and show the world their genitalia. But they must display more transparency.
The IOC’s ham-fisted handling of testing procedures also needs addressing. And if these women really do have a grossly unfair advantage, then this must be dealt with — and yes, perhaps they should be competing against men, albeit in a lighter weight category.
After all, the hurt feelings of these athletes mustn’t triumph over common sense and the well-being of their XX-chromosomed counterparts. Safety must come first, for everyone.
Then why the insults for JKR?
“First let me prove I’m on your side by talking shit about a woman, then I’ll say something you might not like. Please don’t hurt me.”
Basically.
Why the insults? I believe that the writer is pleading with the cult “Don’t beat me up for saying exactly the same things as JKR! Look! I insulted her (hoping that you will believe that I object to all the other things you’ve accused her of saying, and leave me alone)!”
No one other than Transactivists is claiming he is “trans”. He never has. His team never have.
He has a DSD. Transthugs know the difference, but they hope the hoi poloi don’t.
The transmafia will coopt anything and anyone in their desperation,and they do not care who is harmed by their actions.
I have empathy for him, but that doesn’t override my support of women’s sport for women.
Well, they don’t have Swyer’s, Clemmie Moodie, you Shit-for-Brains, because people with Swyer’s don’t have “higher levels of testosterone”–they have undeveloped gonads that don’t produce estrogens OR androgens. They don’t go through puberty, either kind, without hormonal treatment. The treatment is estrogen, not testosterone.
And they have low bone density–how many people with low bone density become boxers?
Honest-to-Bast how stupid and incurious do you have to be to write for the Sun? I mean it doesn’t take long to learn this stuff. Of course, you have to be able to read.
militant anti-trans suff? How is JKR militant about it?
She says stuff. In public. On X. Where people can hear.
Plus, she spells better than most of them do, and she uses punctuation. I understand periods are seen as hostility by some in the younger generation.
JKR isn’t anti-trans either, nevermind militant — this falsehood was fabricated in a smear campaign by the trans cult following her ‘dress however you please’ tweet. Accepted uncritically and perpetuated by the ignorant.
None of whom have actually read the original tweet, because they have been told it is too, too horrible, too too nasty, to be spread around.