Sometimes you just hate being right. It was back in 2017 that Jim Goad, discussing the mad push for ‘inclusion’ in women’s sports, predicted, ‘expect a lot of crying’.
And, lo, it has come to pass.
Female Italian boxer Angela Carini says she stopped her Olympic bout against her ‘biologically male’ opponent to ‘save my life’.
The clash between the 25-year-old and her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif lasted just 46 seconds, with Carini yelling ‘this is unjust’ before she fell to canvas and wept having had her Olympic dreams snatched away from her.
Carini was rocked by two punches from Khelif – who had been banned from a major boxing contest before the Olympics – and said the savage force of the blows made it ‘impossible to continue’.
Khelif was thrown out of last year’s world championships after failing testosterone tests carried out to establish gender qualification.
Now, whether Khelif is ‘transgender’ or not is a matter of contention. It appears that earlier genetic tests on Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting established that both have XY chromosomes – in other words, they’re genetically male. But Khelif also apparently has rare condition classed as ‘differences in sexual development’ (DSD).
Looking at some of Africa’s ‘female’ athletes this Olympics, it’s a bit like Isaac Butterfield’s joke about transgender Aborigines: “They’re a bit hard to spot, because the ladies already look like blokes.”
Carini’s bruised and swollen face might be shocking to look at, but frankly, she got off lightly.
A volleyball player left partially paralyzed by a transgender opponent has slammed the Olympics over its boxing controversy.
Payton McNabb was 17 when a ball spiked by a trans opponent with force struck her in the face, threw her to the ground and shut off her consciousness.
The 5ft 11in trans player cackled in delight, Ms McNabb said, after sending her to the floor. As did other players in the opposite team.
Ms McNabb was left with brain damage and paralysis on her right side, which ended her dreams of getting a volleyball college scholarship and has made it difficult to walk without falling.
She told DailyMail.com it was ‘disgusting’ that two boxers who failed gender tests had been cleared to fight women at this year’s Games in Paris.
But Lin and Khelif were previously banned from female boxing, precisely because their male genetics gave them a brutally unfair advantage.
So, why were the previously banned blokes allowed to compete this year?
Prior to 2021, the IOC set thresholds for the maximum amount of testosterone – the ‘male’ sex hormone – competitors in women’s events could have. These were picked up in blood tests, similar to ones for doping […]
IOC’s own testosterone monitoring policies were halted three years ago and replaced with a policy of ‘fairness, inclusion and non-discrimination on the basis of gender identify and sex variation’.
Ah, yes, fairness, inclusion, non-discrimination… how often have we heard these vacuous phrases wittered? Disproportionately by ‘progressive’ women. Well, now they’re getting punched in the face (literally) by the ‘fair’ and ‘inclusive’ world they built.
And suddenly there’s a whole lot of crying. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
