In 2013, a lawsuit was brought by former NFL (National Football League, USA) players against the league, alleging that it had failed to protect them from the risks of head injuries and had concealed the dangers of repeated concussions. This legal action focussed on the link between these injuries and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a debilitating brain condition. The case culminated in a 2015 settlement of $765 million, designed to compensate affected players, fund research and support those suffering from cognitive impairments related to concussions. Moving to the present we have a (2020, unsettled) lawsuit against New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU), also regarding head injuries. Former players have filed a class-action lawsuit, alleging that the governing bodies, including NZRU, failed to minimise the risks associated with head injuries and concussions.
In a related matter, the funding for the Olympics comes from television rights and commercial deals negotiated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC secures these rights globally and distributes the revenue across various stakeholders, e.g., the national Olympic committees (NOCs) of various nations to support athlete development and national sports programmes. For instance, during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics cycle, the IOC generated approximately three billion USD. The IOC operates very much like the NFL or the NZRU…
The Olympics has various contact sports similar, if not almost identical, to American football or rugby: rugby 7s, but also wrestling, taekwondo, judo, ice hockey and boxing. These are all sports during which significant injuries can be realised by players in competition with other players.
Regarding boxing, in the 2024 Olympics we had the situation where a biological male engaged in the competitive contact sport of boxing, a sport very prone to head injuries – a matter that is well known. For example, a fighter named Jerry Quarry, a prominent heavyweight boxer in the 1960s and 1970s received numerous head injuries, leading to a condition known as “dementia pugilistica”, i.e., CTE, and in 1999 he passed away at the early age of 53. Another potential example is Muhammad Ali (diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but the repeated head trauma is probably a contributing factor).
In our 2024 Olympics case, the fight took place between Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Italy’s Angela Carini. It took place on August 10, 2024, at 7:00 pm. That’s about it – the fight didn’t even make it to 7.01pm – rather it lasted only 46 seconds, despite Angela Carini being an experienced fighter with a record of 18 wins (12 by knockout) and only three losses.
Her opponent had already been disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championships in 2023, for failing a gender eligibility test administered by the International Boxing Association (IBA). The test indicated that Khelif had male (XY) chromosomes. Despite this, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed ‘her’ (?) to compete – stating that all athletes participating in the boxing tournament complied with the competition’s (contested) eligibility and medical regulations.
This will not protect them from any potential lawsuits such as those brought by players against the NFL or the NZRU. In fact their situation is considerably worse, due to the fact that other professional organisations have ‘seen the light’ and recognised that biological males and females are not the same: we are a dimorphic species and just because you ‘identify’ as a sex (conflated by ‘gender’ ideology), in contrast to your biology, does not make it so.
On April 20, 2014, MMA fighter Tamikka Brents suffered a severe injury during a match against Fallon Fox, a transgender woman (?). Brents sustained a broken orbital bone, which required significant medical attention. She could have been killed. Tamikka Brents made a notable comment about the fight with Fallon Fox:
I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight with Fallon. I can’t answer whether it’s because she’s transgender or not, but I do know that I’ve never felt that kind of strength from any other female fighter.
On 21 April 2022, a female wrestler sustained severe injuries after competing against a transgender woman (?) in a high-school wrestling match. The incident resulted in a significant concussion and exacerbated related issues, including persistent headaches, dizziness and cognitive impairments.
On 21 October 2022, a North Carolina high-school volleyball athlete (Payton McNabb) sustained severe head and neck injuries resulting in long-term concussion symptoms after a transgender woman (?) player spiked the ball at her head at an estimated 70 mph, with witnesses describing the hit as ‘abnormally’ fast. The female player is still experiencing long-term concussion symptoms, including vision problems and has not been cleared to compete again.
This list will only get longer until the hammer falls with someone dying, or it is accepted that biological sex is a reality and no amount of ‘identifying’ will change that.
The solution is that lawsuits (or legislation) need to be moved thick and fast against any and all organisations and individuals, as is currently happening to the Tavistock Clinic and some staff in Britain – an institution that has been closed and the principals are now in the courts.
Regarding sports organisations, they need to act decisively to address the issues surrounding ‘gender vs sex’ participation. The harm is tangible and significant: not just emotional or abstract. There's a real risk of serious injury or death if reality is ignored in favour of ‘ideological inclusion’.
Governments need to pass clear and precise legislation regarding the distinction between what is ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ and make it an offense to conflate the two.
Gender and sex are not the same and should not be pitted against each other in women’s ‘safe spaces’, particularly if that is the arena of sport.
