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.
XYlophony
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Conceived as male, relabeled as feminine gender, perhaps to accommodate a homo transition near viability. The structural differences between the sexes are progressive, persistent and disadvantage the female sex in physical competition.
This can be corrected within the sport. At the beginning of this up in Canada, there was a tranny male beating the crap out of female MMA fighters. A womens’ coach finally had enough when nobody would stop it. He declared himself to be female, entered an event the tranny was fighting in despite weighing in at a lighter weight class, and methodically brutalized the tranny like he was beating a teenager until the referee decided he couldn’t let it continue and declared the tranny unable to continue. Fixed.
There was a recent event also in Canada about the time of the last Olympics. A male tranny was easily beating all women in his weight class. A womens’ lifting coach at the event similarly declared himself to be tranny, walked into the ring and with barely any effort beat the tranny’s Canadian womens’ record by over a hundred pounds. Again; fixed.
Bearded male powerlifter enters women’s event, breaks record
https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/male-powerlifter-enters-womens-event-breaks-record/
OT, but makes sense, Gen Z — the first generation officially dubbed dumber than the last
https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/us-news/gen-z-the-first-generation-officially-dubbed-dumber-than-the-last/
Gender confusion goes full Monty!!
“Algerian boxer Imane Khelif competing as a woman, saying that she was born a female…….the boxer has admitted to having XY chromosomes and is taking hormone treatments to lower testosterone levels for the next Olympics.”
Protect women, protect women’s sports!
Uh . . . you can’t change your chromosomes with hormonal treatments. You can’t change them, period.
Really, this madness (and it is madness) needs to end, the only mystery seems to be whatever the decision makers’ did with their spines.
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?
@Mike
Exactly. They suspect, and rightly, they could be maimed or even killed. It is all ludicrous to the point of disbelief.
“. . . 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.
Or he compete against males since he has male chromosomes and presumably male muscles and skeleton.
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?
@Anonymous
Actually, yes. Just as the Nazis couldn’t breed women with dogs no matter what they tried.
Should have said, ‘cross-breed’
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.
Ah, here’s the science. So you ‘ve been taught. Chess is a sport, so should males and females compete together?
We get it. You support men cheating against women in sports. Why keep changing the subject with your psychopathic comments that only you believe?
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?
You’ve done enough here for one day… let’s go home. I want to show you my really cute “Hello Kitty” Furry Tranny suit!
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.
. Jeez, past tense as WWII. I know you’re looking forward to it, psycho, but it’s passed. 😏
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?
Quotes? So, who are you quoting?
You were far more entertaining before you escaped the Democrat circus where the ringmaster had you perched on a stool clapping your flippers and barking on command while balancing a beach ball on your nose. Back to the Democrat circus you go!
Sealioning:
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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.
Your flexing and preening to own these MAGATS has gotten me SO HOT!!!! Call it a day so we can race home and get into bed!!!
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.