With the start of the Winter Games, a story this week resurrected a controversy from the last Summer Olympics. Previously, Olympic officials and pundits denounced those who objected to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif competing as a woman, saying that she was born a female. Female boxers withdrew from the competition rather than fight Khelif. Now, the boxer has admitted to having XY chromosomes and is taking hormone treatments to lower testosterone levels for the next Olympics.
At the time, IOC chief Thomas Bach said: “We have two boxers… who were born as women, raised as women, who have passports as women, who have competed for many years as women. And this is a clear definition of a woman.”
In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev explained the IBA’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from the 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships. While there remains confusion on the testing used by the IBA (or the reliability of those tests), it issued this statement:
“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition.”
Various media also did their own “fact checks” with outlets like USA Today stating that the “outcries from anti-trans celebrities and politicians” were based on false claims and the boxers were born women.
NBC also cited “attacks from anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives online who claim they’re transgender.” It stressed that the IBA could not be trusted since the IOC banned the group. (IBA was banned for corruption and financial-related issues).
I wrote about the controversy, criticizing the lack of consistent testing and simple confirmation of the XY chromosomal allegation.
Khelif still insists on competing against female boxers and added:
“Doctors and teachers decide. We all have different genetics, all different hormone levels. I’m not a transsexual. My difference, it is natural. I’m like that. I did nothing to change the way nature did to me. That’s why I’m not afraid. For the next Games, if you have to take a test, I will submit to it. I have no problem with that. I already did this test. I contacted World Boxing, I sent them my medical record, my hormonal tests, everything. But I had no answer. I’m not hiding, I’m not refusing testing. What I don’t understand is why we want to make my story so bigger.”
Notably, Khelif previously filed a criminal complaint against JK Rowling and Elon Musk for cyberbullying. It is another example of how free speech is being eviscerated in Europe through the criminalization of political speech. I cannot find a record of the complaint’s status.
Do XX females benefit from this medical confusion? Not if you listen to Riley Gaines. There is no apparent rush by XX females to get into sports for men. Why is that? Perhaps in boxing XX females have no interest getting into the ring with a Mohamed Ali. Even if you heed Dr. Marc Siegel’s take, XY is the flag, test for testosterone level, how do you test the level of an XX female’s enjoyment in competing in the sport with non XX females? Or is that interest- again- unimportant?
“. . . is taking hormone treatments to lower testosterone levels for the next Olympics.”
Here’s a better idea for leveling that playing field:
Cut off an arm and a leg. Then you can box against women.
Call it “gender-equity care.”
A good friend recently was taking some medication to reduce testosterone levels—apparently a routine therapy for prostate cancer. He did not enjoy the experience: total lethargy and profound depression. That may be only a little less desirable than removing an arm and a leg.
Isn’t it “basic” biology: females are (XX) and males are (XY)? Does Khelif really think Hormones are going to change him … into a woman?
Do you know for a fact it can’t?
Testosterone (or lack thereof) doesn’t alter chromosomal differences. More importantly, it doesn’t change the musculoskeletal differences between males and females, which are very relevant to performance in sports.
No one who has a “Y” chromosome is a woman, or should be permitted to compete in an athletic event against one. Whether one was born that way (I’m doubtful, but not 100% convinced it is impossible) or the condition has been induced makes no difference. Rules of athletic contests are traditionally designed to produce relatively equitable levels of competition, and the traditional rules are consistent with that goal for nearly all events. Within that domain, there always have been and always will be genetic variations that will mitigate for or against individual success in athletics, generally, or for specific endeavors. I have much more slow twitch than fast twitch muscle mass. When I was younger, I was fairly good for longer track competitions; my 100 yard dash time sucked. The gender classification for athletic games has worked pretty well for centuries; there is no reason or justification to suddenly change it. If it was to be changed (which I oppose), then it should be made 100% equitable by having completely open (no gender classifications at all) competitions with extensive individual handicapping. That would likely reduce events to boring drivel that I don’t think anyone would trouble themselves to watch.
“No one ” huh?
You clown … muscle twitch? Sucked you say? That about sums it all up about you. Or should we say they?
These moments in world history will be remembered as a time when the mindless virtue seekers of cultures and nations came to the fore and attempted to subsume the rest through a Woke Volksnitiativ enforced by a Cancel Culture Gestapo seeking to impose its will for the benefit of what, in the USA, accounts for 0.95% of the population. Lives and reputations were destroyed for the sake of this lot. The need for wise, saner minds went begging for the fear of not stepping into line and we are not beyond it yet.
Males posing as females are liars and their destiny will be eternal:
Revelation 21:7-8 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (8) But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
https://sumofthyword.com/2025/04/07/he-that-overcometh/
Crackpot.
Once again those who pointed out the obvious were correct, and the leftwing trans supremacists were lying. If there was no athletic advantage to being born male, there would be an equal number of people born women competing as trans men at the highest level in sporting events in men’s events. There aren’t. For the one simple reason that honest people admit. XY chromosomes confer a performance advantage over XX, in general. Deal with it, leftist ideologues, protect girls and save women’s sports.
“XY chromosomes confer a performance advantage over XX . . .”
Exactly!
The physical advantages (e.g., muscle mass, bone structure, lung capacity) were long ago set by those genetic facts.
Quotes? So, who are you quoting?
Forfeit your gold medal. SHAM!
Khelif’s medals should be stripped from him, and awarded to the woman he dishonestly beat. But probably the IOC will still cater to the trannies in whatever ways are available to them.
“dishonestly”. The IOC allowed her to compete. So you’re calling that dishonest?
One can only imagine how you mentally torture your spouse.
Allowed HIM. Call a thing by its name.
One can only imagine how you mentally torture your spouse.
The difference is in their mind. No amount of hormonal treatment or surgical alteration will change their musculoskeletal makeup that gives them a significant advantage in the real world of athletics. They are free to live their lives as they wish but their self perception does not grant them the authority to trample the rights of others or to force their delusions on the rest of us.
“self perception does not grant them the authority to trample … ” Wha?
What a heap of gobbledygook.
You try to hard to sound philosophical. You failed. Sill commenter.