#umar kremlev

[angelholme]

Vladimir Putin & The Anti-Trans Cult

So lets just sum this up, shall we?

The UK, USA and all of Europe is at war with Russia, because we think Vladimir Putin is an evil bastard who is trying to take over Ukraine. We think he is one of the most evil men in the world, and anyone who is associated with him is also an evil bastard who can’t be trusted.

Very few people disagree with this, and it is the primary reason that Russia are not allowed to take part in The Olympics.

Are you all with me so far?

Good.

There is an organisation called The International Boxing Association.

It is run by a man named Umar Kremlev. A man who is widely criticised for having very close ties with Vladimir Putin (you remember him, right?), for being associated with a Russian state owned oil company and for there being “irregularities” during the elections of 2021 and 2022. He is, in short, a very suspicious character and did I mention him being very close to Putin (the guy who is the reason Russia aren’t allowed in polite company or The Olympics).

He is also the reason why The IBA aren’t permitted to oversee boxing at The Olympics — the first time an international authority was ever expelled from The Olympics.

And — if this wasn’t enough — he was the man in charge when a woman named Imane Khelif was disqualified from the World Championships for “undisclosed reasons” just after she defeated the previously undefeated Azalia Amineva — the previously unbeaten Russian contender.

The IBA — under the direction of a Russian man who is close friends with Putin, and who disqualified someone who beat a previously unbeaten Russian contender — claimed she had “high testosterone levels” but then said “they had not undergone testosterone testing” (so quite how they knew how high her testosterone levels were is curious — did they just look at her and go “No — too high”?), then they said DNA testing proved she “had XY chromosomes” except there is no evidence that she has XY chromosomes, and the only evidence that The Russian lead IBA is willing to provide is “confidential” and shows “a competitive advantage”

So — to sum up — The IBA, which is run by a Russian who is close friends with someone most of the known world hates, and who the UK, USA and Europe is at war with, and who is suspected of being incredibly corrupt, banned a woman from The World Championship for no apparent reason other than she beat a Russian contender who was going to go for the gold medal.

Are you still with me? Because all of this is merely prologue. Now we get to the good stuff.

The woman at the centre of all this — Imane Khelif — is about to go for The Olympic Gold in Paris.

Now given everything I have just told you — that she was banned from The World Championship by a corrupt organisation run by a man with ties to the Russian regime because she beat a Russian contender who was going to fight for the gold and so far there has been no evidence whatsoever to back up the reason she was banned — where do you think the press in the UK, USA and Europe would be on her performance in The Olympics?

Yes. That’s right. They want her kicked out of the contest.

The anti-trans cult is so fucking dedicated to the bigotry that they are willing to side with a man who runs a corrupt organisation, who is in bed with Putin, who has absolutely no proof to back up any of his claims and who banned someone because they dared to beat a Russian fighter just so they can continue to target a woman who has always been a woman and who can punch harder than another woman.

It’s fucking ridiculous.

[ideeperscrittori]

IMANE KHELIF

2023. Imane Khelif viene esclusa dal mondiale dall'IBA, organizzazione controllata da un oligarca russo corrotto.

2024: il CIO sconfessa tale decisione.

2025. L'IBA esclude di nuovo Imane Khelif.

Reazioni sovraniste: "Visto? Scacco matto, radical chic! E adesso come la mettiamo? Ora non parlate più, eh? Cosa c'è? Avete la cosa di paglia? La verità fa male? Questa è la prova definitiva!".

Per loro è come se si fosse aggiunto un tassello a sostegno delle loro idee.

Ehi, sovranisti, provo a spiegarvela in modo semplice: l'IBA è l'organizzazione corrotta di prima che ha confermato la sua linea sulla base dei test del 2023. Non c'è una "nuova prova". L'unico fatto confermato è che l'IBA fa schifo. Ci arrivate?

[L'Ideota]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Bollinger at LGBTQ Nation:

A Republican candidate for Missouri secretary of state is now using slurs on social media to talk about LGBTQ+ people. Candidate Valentina Gomez is among the many conservatives outraged at the Olympics for allowing Algerian boxer Imane Khelif to participate, even though she is a cis woman who has, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), met the eligibility requirements for the 2024 Olympic games. This year’s strict eligibility rules have prevented any trans woman from participating in the Olympics.

“These fa***ts should get their own fa***t category because before if a man hit a woman, it used to land him in jail. Now, it gets you a gold medal at the Olympics,” Gomez said, wearing an Olympic sweater. “Let me remind you: there’s no such thing as a chick with a d**k,” she concluded. “Keep women’s sports female.” Khelif was assigned female at birth and identifies as a woman, making her cisgender. She was treated as a girl in her rural community when she was growing up, and it’s unlikely that a trans child in rural Algeria would have been raised as a gender that didn’t match their outward appearance.

But many on the right have latched on to a statement last year from International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev, who said that DNA tests had “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded” from competing at IBA events. He also said that countries were recruiting cis men to compete in women’s sports. There is no evidence of that. Kremlev has long been criticized as an ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, using the IBA to extend Russian soft power. Putin has been using its anti-LGBTQ+ policies to differentiate Russia from Ukraine and the West, which he believes support LGBTQ+ rights because of U.S. brainwashing.

[...] Unlike the IBA, the IOC is permitting Khelif to compete but isn’t commenting on the results of gender testing, genetics, or the hormone levels of individual competitors other than to say that they meet the IOC’s eligibility rules. The IOC pulled recognition of the IBA last year due to a lack of financial transparency, which means that the IBA–unlike other individual sports organizations–has “no involvement in either the qualification for or the organization of” boxing at the 2024 Olympics.

With the Missouri primary elections coming this Tuesday, Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez continues her anti-LGBTQ+ hatred campaign by disparaging the LGBTQ+ community as “f***ots” in response to cis women Imane Khelif’s victories at the Olympics.

Hope you enjoy getting crushed Tuesday at the polls, you vile Andrew Tate fangirl and anti-LGBTQ+ extremist!

[calacuspr]

Calacus Monthly Hit & Miss – Khelif & IBA

Every month we look at the best and worst communicators in the sports world from the last few weeks.

IMANE KHELIF & IBA

Gender has become a huge issue in sport as well as society.

Ever since South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya underwent tests to prove her gender back in 2009, and the LGBTQ+ community has found a voice in mainstream society, there have been questions raised about fairness and eligibility.

The issue was thrown back into the limelight during the Paris 2024 boxing competition when Italian boxer Angela Carini broke down in tears and quit her bout against the Algerian Imane Khelif after 46 seconds in a fight that sparked huge controversy at the Olympics.

Khelif is one of two boxers permitted to fight at the Games despite being disqualified from the women’s world championships last year for allegedly failing gender eligibility tests.

The International Boxing Association, (IBA) has had a difficult few years, with concerns over governance and integrity ultimately seeing it removed as boxing’s Olympic governing body by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)  in 2023.

Former President Gafur Rakhimov was said to by the U.S. Treasury Department to have strong links to organised crime, which led the IOC to launch an inquiry and suspend IBA initially in 2019.

Rakhimov’s successor, Russian Umar Kremlev, is said to have strong links to state President Vladimir Putin while the governing body has been backed by Russian state energy firm Gazprom, which Kremlev said had ceased to be the case since 2023.

Concerns over the integrity of bouts and judging were underlined by report by sports investigator Richard McLaren which said “corruption abounded” when he concluded his report into IBA’s governance.

IBA is also under threat from the newly-formed World Boxing, which was set up by former IBA presidential candidate Boris van der Vorst, who have already held talks with the IOC about leading the boxing at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028 and have almost three dozen nations supporting them.

So it’s fair to say that IBA’s credibility continues to be stretched.

Last year, Khelif and fellow boxer Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan were disqualified from the World Boxing Championships.

“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women,” the Association’s president, Umar Kremlev, told Russia’s Tass news agency at the time. “According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition.”

It was a pure coincidence that Khelif had beaten Russian opponent Azalia Amineva in the semi-final, her disqualification ensuring that Amineva’s unbeaten record was restored.

Fast forward to Paris and Khelif, who was born and raised a woman, and does not identify as either transgender or intersex.

The controversy over her inclusion in the women’s 66kg boxing event prompted everyone from author JK Rowling, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to pour scorn over Khelif’s inclusion.

Carini, meanwhile, expressed regret over her actions in the ring. "All this controversy makes me sad," Carini told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. "I'm sorry for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision. It wasn't something I intended to do.

"Actually, I want to apologise to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke."

The IOC made a statement criticising IBA’s governance and later IOC President Thomas Bach confirmed that the boxers were not transgender.

He confirmed: “We have two boxers who are born as women, who have been raised as women, who have a passport as a woman and have competed for many years as women. Some want to own a definition of who is a women.”

He went on to underline the IOC’s position while referring to the wider and politically motivated campaign by Russian interests against the IOC and the Paris Olympics.

He added: “What we have seen from the Russian side and in particular from the (IBA),” Bach said, “they have undertaken already way before these Games with a defamation campaign against France, against the Games, against the IOC.”

IOC Director of Communications, Mark Adams, dismissed the legitimacy of IBA’s testing and the frenzy it was attempting to capitalise on.

He said: “The whole process is flawed. From the conception of the test, to the way the test was shared with us, to the way the tests were made public, it's so flawed that it's impossible to engage with it.

“I'm not going to discuss the individual intimate details of athletes in public, which I think is quite disgraceful for those who leaked that material. Frankly, it must be terrible to be put in that position. On top of all the social media harassment these athletes have had to endure.”

Despite their lack of involvement from Paris 2024, IBA called a press conference to build upon the controversy and explain why they had banned Khelif from their own event last year.

Given their reputation as an organisation, and despite of the facts as laid out by the IOC, what IBA needed to do was show leadership, authority and professionalism.

That would send a message to the world that they are a serious organisation capable of representing the diverse boxing family and acting with integrity.

What transpired was quite the opposite.

Reporters were kept waiting for the press conference for over an hour amid technical difficulties which were to affect the translations, the live feed to Kremlev in Russia and the sound system.

One reporter described the event as “the most extraordinary, chaotic, shambolic and badly organised international sporting press conference I have ever attended,” and it was perhaps a fatal blow to IBA’s hopes of regaining Olympic Programme control for boxing.

The speakers rambled, avoided answering direct questions and there was no coherent messaging to convince the attendant media that IBA, and by extension its point of view, was credible.

IBA Chief Executive, Chris Roberts, a former British Army officer, revealed that blood tests carried out by a laboratory in Istanbul during the 2022 World Championship came up as inconsistent for Khelif and another boxer, with a similar test the next year leading to her disqualification.

He added that Roberts the controversy “wasn’t anything that we wanted. We delivered the test information to the IOC and they haven’t done anything with it because they believe in their own criteria, which is the passport. We never intended to raise any issues because this is not our event. We are now here because the media has questions.”

Kremlev used the opportunity to attack the IOC and President Bach again, claiming that he was standing up for women’s sport, despite all the speakers being men.

In a rambling tirade that prompted journalists to leave or ask him to stop talking, Kremlev said; “As a Christian, the Olympic opening ceremony was something horrible. Today we are destroying sport, especially feminine sport.

“We have genetic tests showing that these are men. We have not checked what’s between their legs. There are doctors and medics who can verify these things. We don’t know whether they were born like that or changes were made.

"Today we are witnessing the death of women's boxing, the corruption of judges. All this is happening while Mr Bach is president (of the IOC). Under no circumstances should we allow women's boxing to be destroyed. Today not only is women's boxing being destroyed, but I believe that in the future they will also try to destroy women's sport.”

Several journalists and other people who were attending left in disgust, at not just the language, but the tone of the answers from the IBA participants.

Nothing is ever off the record with journalists and it was laughable that Roberts then contradicted his President by confirming that Gazprom was still a sponsor and also undermining the validity of the 2023 tests by saying that there was no independent presence when they took place.

No wonder the IOC’s Mark Adams responded: “It was a chaotic farce. The organization and the content of this press conference tells you everything you need to know about their governance and credibility.

"It clearly demonstrates that the sport of boxing needs a new federation to run boxing. If you ever needed any evidence at all that the IBA is unfit to run boxing just look at the key members of the IBA who took part in that travesty yesterday.

"We would love to see boxing, we want to see boxing on the programme in LA. Now it is up to the boxing community to organise themselves for the sport and for the athletes." 

It wasn’t just Carini who came to Khelif’s defence.

Amy Broadhurst, who competed for Team GB at this summer's Games, recently spoke out on Khelif competing in Paris, having previously fought and beaten the Algerian in the final of the 2022 World Championships.

"Have a lot of people texting me over Imane Khelif," she posted on X. "Personally I don't think she has done anything to 'cheat'. "I thinks it's the way she was born and that's out of her control. The fact that she has been [beaten] by nine females before says it all."

Beyond the confusion, the chaos and the shambles that was IBA’s press conference, not once did any of the speakers show any sympathy for the online bullying and abuse that Khelif has faced.

Khelif (above in red) had earlier said the furore was having “massive effects” as she called for restraint. “I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes, because this has effects,” she said.

After winning gold by beating Chinese world champion Yang Liu by a unanimous decision over five rounds to win welterweight gold, Khelif said: “I am fully qualified to take part in this competition. I’m a woman like any other woman.

"For eight years, this has been my dream, and I'm now the Olympic champion and gold medalist. That also gives my success a special taste because of those attacks.

"We are in the Olympics to perform as athletes, and I hope that we will not see any similar attacks in future Olympics.

 “I was born a woman, I lived a woman, I competed as a woman, there’s no doubt about that. [The detractors] are enemies of success, that is what I call them. And that also gives my success a special taste because of these attacks.

“As for the IBA, since 2018 I have been boxing under their umbrella. They know me very well, they know what I’m capable of, they know how I’ve developed over the years but now they are not recognised any more. They hate me and I don’t know why. I send them a single message: with this gold medal, my dignity, my honour is above everything else.”

Paris 2024 will go down as one of the greatest Olympiad of all time, with the Khelif affair a rare controversy which raised questions of fairness and safety. But Khelif has struggled in other competitions, her Olympic gold surely the peak of her career which has never been characterised by overly powerful punching.

Sadly for IBA, their communications and their shambolic Paris press conference end any hope they had of regaining the hearts and minds of the boxing community, or, more importantly, the support of the IOC.

[transexualpirate]

"i'm not racist, you're just misogynistic" says white woman who's only source is umar kremlev

[szepkerekkocka]

Én mondjuk pont telibeszarom az olimpiát, úgy általánosságban a versenysportot meg az aktuális genderes hisztériát is, de az valami egészen fantasztikus, hogy már megint a szovjetek keverik a szart.

[coochiequeens]

Leftist journalists attended a conference that delivered news they didn't like and responded by walking out and attacking the messenger.

Ahmad Austin Jr. Aug 5th, 2024

Reporters were left stunned by the way the International Boxing Association handled a press conference about two Olympic boxers at the center of controversy.

The IBA on Tuesday held the presser to detail its decision to disqualify Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting from previous competitions. Both are competing in the Olympics, and their respective wins in the quarterfinals mean they are both guaranteed to win medals in Paris.

According to the IBA, the disqualifications came from test results that the organization believes prove they are men. Both competitors, however, have insisted they were born female and have identified as women their entire lives. Their passports also indicate that they’re female.

Both athletes, the IBA said, have XY chromosomes. Khelif was born with disorders of sex development (DSD), which can result in XY chromosomes and higher levels of testosterone. At birth, Khelif was observed to have external female genitalia and was assigned female.

Reporters in attendance described the conference as a “car crash” and the “most extraordinary news conference I’ve ever witnessed.”

Much of the presser’s backlash involved IBA chief Umar Kremlev. In addition to accusing the head of the International Olympic Committee of being a “sodomite,” Kremlev claimed that female boxing was being “soiled” as a result of the IOC’s decision to let the fighters compete with women at the Olympics.

Kremlev said that Khelif’s and Yu-Ting’s tests were both done at independent labs. The results, he continued, indicated they were male. A Daily Mail reporter asked if there was an independent witness during testing, and Kremlev admitted there was not. Additionally, he said they didn’t “verify what they have between their legs,” stating they didn’t know if it was the genitalia they were born with or “if some changes were made.”

Daily Mail described the conference as “shambolic” and noted several “lengthy” rants from Kremlev. His interpreter even struggled to keep up with the rants and many in attendance couldn’t even understand him.

As a result, Reuters cut its stream of the conference. BBC simply walked out.

There were also multiple protestors who showed up in support of the boxers. At one point, the IBA lost the room and most of the press turned around to talk to the protestors instead.

[justinssportscorner]

Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:

On Friday, cisgender Algerian female boxer Imane Khelif secured gold in the final match of her weight class, defying far-right critics who have falsely claimed she is “a man.” Despite being assigned female at birth and living her entire life as a woman, Khelif faced a barrage of attacks questioning her gender. However, her participation was met with overwhelming support and cheers as she entered the arena, and ultimately won her match. [...] The match started slowly and seemed evenly balanced, with Khelif narrowly taking the first round. In the second round, however, Khelif dominated, landing decisive blows as the announcers observed that the crowd was “clearly behind her.” By the end of the third round, it was evident that she had won, maintaining her dominance throughout the competition. When the final announcement declared her the winner, the crowd erupted in celebration.

Khelif’s victory comes after she faced intense criticism from far-right activists, major political figures, and opponents of transgender participation in sports. Despite never having transitioned genders, these critics labeled the cisgender female boxer as “a man.” For example, Donald Trump responded to Khelif’s previous win by declaring, “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!” J.K. Rowling posted a picture of Khelif, stating, “Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.” Others joining in include Elon Musk, Riley Gaines, and JD Vance. Disinformation about her gender identity even spread to major outlets, including the Boston Globe, which inaccurately referred to her as transgender. The paper quickly issued a major retraction of the claim.

After Khelif’s previous match, she remained defiant, stating, “I dedicate this medal to the world, and to all the Arabs and I tell you, ‘Long live Algeria! I want to tell the entire world that I am a female, and I will remain a female.” The original claim about Khelif’s sex eligibility arose when the scandal-plagued International Boxing Association (IBA) ruled her out of competition, alleging she failed an unspecified gender test after defeating an undefeated Russian boxer. Notably, the IBA is presided over by Umar Kremlev of Russia, an associate of President Putin. In 2023, the International Olympic Committee voted to derecognize the IBA due to concerns about corruption, governance, and judging controversies.

Transphobes lost this one: Cis female Algerian boxer Imane Khelif wins gold in the welterweight division of women's boxing.🥇🇩🇿

[blogitalianissimo]

non per andarti contro o cose, però guarda che le due atlete, Imane Khelif dell'Algeria e Lin Yu-Ting di Taiwan, che gareggiano alle Olimpiadi di Parigi nella categoria sono state precedentemente squalificate da un campionato del mondo femminile per avere "cromosomi XY". Praticamente, sono stati svolti i campionati mondiali di boxe femminile nel marzo del 2023, ospitati a Nuova Delhi, in India. Tuttavia, l’evento è stato segnato da polemiche dopo che Umar Kremlev, presidente dell'International Boxing Association (IBA), ha annunciato la squalifica di più pugili dal campionato. Kremlev ha detto che i dirigenti dell'IBA si erano incontrati verso il gran finale del campionato per discutere di "equità tra delle atlete e professionalità", dopo che sono state sollevate preoccupazioni sul sesso biologico di alcuni partecipanti. Ha aggiunto che dopo "una serie di test del DNA", l'IBA "ha scoperto atleti che stavano cercando di ingannare i loro colleghi e fingere di essere donne". Parlando a TASS News, Kremlev ha affermato che i test avevano dimostrato che le atlete in questione "avevano cromosomi XY ed erano quindi esclusi dagli eventi sportivi". Tra gli squalificati c'era Imane Khelif, la pugile algerina, la quale avrebbe dovuto sfidare Yang Liu della Cina nella finale dei pesi welter. Khelif è stato rimosso dalla lotta per la medaglia d'oro e al thailandese Janjaem Suwannapheng, che aveva perso contro Khelif in semifinale, è stato invece permesso di procedere a combattere Yang. In una dichiarazione pubblica, l'IBA ha scritto che "un pugile dell'Algeria, Imane Khelif, è stato escluso dai campionati mondiali di boxe IBA a causa del mancato rispetto dei criteri di ammissibilità dell'IBA". Ma il Comitato Olimpico Algerino ha negato le affermazioni dell'IBA, attribuendo la squalifica di Khelif a una "cospirazione" per impedire all'Algeria di avere una medaglia d'oro nella boxe. Mentre alludevano vagamente al fatto che Khelif è stato colpito per "motivi medici" che circondano alti livelli di testosterone, hanno aggiunto che avrebbero sostenuto il viaggio di Khelif alle Olimpiadi di Parigi del 2024 a prescindere. Ma dopo la controversa squalifica, una pugile si è fatta avanti per discutere della sua esperienza (simile a quella della Carini) combattendo Khelif sul ring al campionato. "Quando ho combattuto con lei mi sono sentita molto fuori dalla mia profondità", ha scritto la pugile messicana Brianda Tamara su X. "I suoi colpi mi hanno fatto molto male, non credo di essermi mai sentita così nei miei 13 anni come pugile, né nel mio sparring con gli uomini. "Grazie a Dio quel giorno sono uscita dal ring sana e salva, ed è un bene che finalmente se ne siano resi conto"", ha detto Tamara Brianda.

Sostanzialmente, l’algerina ha potuto partecipare alle olimpiadi di Parigi perché le linee guida per l’ammissibilità sono a compito del paese di provenienza. 

C’è anche da ricordare che Angela Carini si era dichiarata pronta per l’incontro (rispondendo alle accuse della destra), dicendo: “Io devo adeguarmi a quello che ha deciso il CIO, quindi domani andrò sul ring e darò tutta me stessa“.

le frasi fra “” non sono mie parole

Cioè fammi capire, stanno umiliando una donna, ci stanno facendo becera propaganda sopra, e vieni qua a scrivermi 'sto MUCHO TEXTO e a fare la punta al cazzo su come nel 2023 l'IBA, ente sportivo non riconosciuto dal comitato olimpico internazionale (ansa), l'abbia esclusa dai mondiali? È idonea per le Olimpiadi, e lo era anche nel 2021, non lo fosse stata l'avrebbe esclusa anche il comitato olimpico, quindi cosa?

E Tamara Brianda (ma anche la nostra Angela Carini) ci spiegasse allora perché 5 donne sono riuscite tranquillamente a battere la Khelif senza piangere (x)

E Angela se ne andasse a quel paese, col suo NON salutare l'avversaria ha dimostrato una bassezza unica

Ma veramente, non hai di meglio da dire? A volte l'empatia vale più di un "ACHTUHALLY ☝️🤓"

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

This one is fun.

https://www.tumblr.com/sugarkat/757831296926072832?source=share

Very long. I wish someone would come out with the definitive facts about the Olympics athlete, because all I'm hearing is a lot of conjecture from both "sides". The most up-to-date reports I can find say:

'Khelif was disqualified from last year’s Women’s World Boxing Championships after undergoing what IBA president Umar Kremlev told Russian news agency TASS had been DNA tests. 

He added: “Based on the results of the tests, it was proven that they have XY [male] chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from the competition.” '

I heard that in Islamic Algeria it is illegal to identify as transgender, so I found myself wondering if the reason the tests from the boxing association were kept confidential was not to endanger Imane Khelif back home if he/she had been raised as a girl from birth to protect him/her.

Other thoughts: I support J.K. Rowling on her stance against the madness of gender ideology, but her claims of "misogyny" as being the reason for the Olympics allowing an obviously male-bodied athlete to compete against women are hysterical and absurd, when it's the feminist-originated gender ideology itself that inevitably led to this situation.

[justinssportscorner]

Elsie Carson-Holt at LGBTQ Nation:

Anti-trans activists are outraged that the International ­Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed boxers who failed gender and testosterone tests in the boxing world championships last year to compete at the Paris Olympics, even though the boxers are not transgender. Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) were not permitted to compete in the 2023 women’s world championships for boxing because they failed the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender testing. IBA president Umar Kremlev said that DNA tests had “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded.” He also said that countries were recruiting cis men to compete in women’s sports. There is no evidence of that. Khelif, though, said last year that she was excluded by the IBA because she’s Algerian: “People have conspired against Algeria so that its flag doesn’t get raised and it doesn’t win the gold medal.” Unlike the IBA, the IOC is permitting both women to compete but isn’t commenting on the results of gender testing, their genetics, or their hormone levels other than to say that they meet the IOC’s eligibility rules. [...] Neither boxer is transgender – they were assigned female at birth and identify as women, making them cisgender – though anti-trans activists have spread transphobic rhetoric about the two women’s gender identities, including once-beloved children’s book author and current transphobe, J.K. Rowling.

Anti-trans influencers such as Riley Gaines and J.K. Rowling are throwing a faux outrage temper over two women (Imane Khelif [ALG] and Lin Yu-ting [TPE]) competing in boxing that are alleged to be “male”.

Both Khelif and Yu-ting are women and have always competed in women’s competitions.

This episode has revealed that the anti-trans movement has no valid argument on “saving women’s sports” if even cis women are being attacked for being not hewing to rigid womanhood standards.

See Also:

PinkNews: Imane Khelif’s Olympics participation ‘not a trans issue’, says IOC

Outsports: IOC strongly defends Olympic women boxers Irmane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, tells the haters to shut up

Slate: What’s Going On With the Two Women Boxers Who “Failed” a Gender Test

[scogito]

L'IBA_Boxing ha rilasciato una dichiarazione sulla squalifica del 2023 di Imane Khelif e Lin dal campionato mondiale di pugilato femminile.

Nella dichiarazione, l'IBA nota esplicitamente che i due pugili NON si sono sottoposti a un test per esaminare i loro livelli di testosterone.

Questo è fondamentale, poiché è stata diffusa una disinformazione che attribuisce la squalifica di Lin e Khelif a semplici livelli elevati di testosterone.

Coloro che hanno diffuso questa disinformazione hanno l'impressione che Lin e Khelif possiedano cromosomi XX e hanno messo in dubbio la segnalazione suggerendo che potrebbe non essere così.

Ora è confermato che il loro testosterone non è stato controllato, né è stato il motivo della loro squalifica o del loro dichiarato vantaggio competitivo.

Invece, l'IBA afferma che è stato condotto un test "separato e riconosciuto" che ha riscontrato che entrambi i pugili non erano idonei a competere nel pugilato femminile.

L'IBA fa anche riferimento ai verbali del consiglio direttivo di Nuova Delhi del 2023, che, una volta esaminati, rivelano che i campioni di questi due pugili sono stati esaminati da due laboratori separati che hanno scoperto che non soddisfacevano i criteri di ammissibilità.

Altrettanto cruciale: né Lin né Khelif hanno contestato la decisione dell'IBA.

Poiché il loro testosterone non è stato esaminato, diventa estremamente ovvio che l'IBA ha effettivamente sottoposto Lin e Khelif a test cromosomici.

Questo è qualcosa che è stato confermato informalmente dal presidente dell'IBA Umar Kremlev a Tass News nel 2023, che ha aggiunto che i pugili squalificati avevano "cromosomi XY".

Ciò è ulteriormente confermato dal fatto che l'IBA definisce "donna" come "un individuo con cromosoma XX".

Descrive inoltre che un pugile può essere sottoposto a test per confermare se ha tali cromosomi, che servono come criteri di ammissibilità per la boxe femminile IBA.

L'IBA ha rilasciato questa dichiarazione fondamentale, confermando che né Lin né Khelif dovrebbero combattere contro donne. (testo riassunto dal web)

LINK della IBA

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Questo a chi mi dice insultando che il regolamento ha stabilito che Khelif è una donna perciò può gareggiare e che Carini è una piagnona e quindi se ne tornasse a casa.

L'ottusità mentale di questa società non ha fondo, non ha argini, non ha che il marcio delle convinzioni che ama tanto ingurgitare.

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Men vs. Women: The Bout for Equality

Boxing. One of the world's most dangerous sports, dominated by male participants. But why is this? Why is there a lack of female participation? What has caused such an obvious divide between men and women? Can we combat it?

The origins of boxing can be traced back to Ancient Greece in 688 BC where the first bout took place in the 23rd Olympiad. Though, modern boxing was established in the 1880s.

Women have had opportunities to participate in the sport since the 18th century. However, most of the first bouts in women’s boxing were staged or done in secrecy, away from the public eye. In the UK, it wasn’t until 1996 that women were legally allowed to compete and join boxing clubs.

“Deep down I think women shouldn’t fight. That’s my opinion . . . When you get hit it’s very painful. Women can get knocked out” - Amir Khan, 2009. From the mouth of a professional boxer, we are still seeing injustices towards women in the sport. Why do biological differences mean that women are incapable of fighting? The phrase “women can get knocked out” implies that women are significantly weaker than men, when in reality some of the greatest male boxers also lose by KO in their bouts. So aren’t we all equally at risk of a knockout?

Jackson Vs Booker, 2023

It took a further 16 years for women to be allowed to compete in an Olympic Games. London 2012 was the first Olympics to host women’s boxing events. Despite this breakthrough however, women were still facing inequalities.

Compared to a men’s boxing match, the women were made to have shorter rounds whilst having to wear breast guards with an optional use of groin guards.  A change to standard uniforms became apparent for women too. This saw a proposed change from the usual boxing shorts that men would wear to the adaptation of a skirt that women were expected to wear.

It has been previously noted that boxing commentators had complained that you couldn’t see a clear difference between male and female fighters when both in shorts and headgear. Fearing that women would lose their ‘feminine’ appearances, the idea of wearing skirts in the ring would prevent women from looking too ‘masculine’. This has remained an issue into today’s society with women being bullied for looking ‘man-like’. "By wearing skirts, in my opinion, it gives a good impression, a womanly impression," Poland coach Leszek Piotrowski stated in an interview with BBC (2009).

Jackson, 2023

Why do women have to remain ‘feminine’ in a combat sport? In contemporary society, women are still criticised for their lack of ‘feminine’ features when they are wearing clothing associated with men. Why should women have to wear skirts in the ring that may affect their performance with the flowing movement of the material?

Not only are women discriminated against for their appearance but also their weight. During London 2012 women were subjected to only 3 weight classes in comparison to the Men’s whopping 10 weight classes. This continued into the Rio 2016 Olympics where only 36 women competed as opposed to 250 men. This illustrates the lack of support and recognition for women in the world of boxing throughout modern adaptations of the sport.

Today we see more of an improvement on the equal divide between men and women’s boxing. Paris 2024 brought the closest divide we have seen in the history of boxing regarding weight categories and participation levels. Women’s boxing had a record number of 6 Weight classes to compete under in contrast to their 3 in 2012 when they were first granted entry into the Olympic games.

But why are we still seeing limitations for women within the sport? How do we change?

Umar Kremlev (IBA President) has recently announced that the International Boxing Association are to promote gender equality as one of the pillars of the organisation in the next coming years. So what does that mean for the general public and athletes?

Boxing committees and associations must modernise their practices and adjust the way their events are constructed so that male and female bouts are held to an equal standard, therefore, bridging the inequality gap. However, we can only initiate this by raising our voices in unity as a community, as enablers of change. Women should have the opportunity to fight 12, 3 minute rounds per fight instead of their 10, 2 minute rounds.

So how can you help promote this?

Promoting athlete’s who speak out against gender inequalities helps highlight issues faced in today’s society. Nicola Adams filmed a documentary which featured other female boxers who created space for women in the sport. Such as, Jane Couch who won a court case in 1998 to make women’s professional boxing legal in Britain. By sharing and promoting allies who stand with women, voices are being heard and listened to. Changes will be made. Educating ourselves on the matter will also aid changes that need to be made. By reading up on crucial information and expanding our general knowledge, we are able to provide additional voices for what we believe in. Encouraging others to read about experiences faced by female boxers will spread awareness for issues that media fail to portray. Spreading awareness is the fastest way to make a difference.

Media is a significant factor in how we can make these changes as a society. Hold individuals accountable for their damning actions, such as Tyson Fury in 2015 when he announced ‘women were only good in the kitchen and on their backs’. 44,000+ people signed a petition to have him removed from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year shortlist. If we stand against individuals like Fury, we are actively changing the sporting scene, one step at a time. Promoting women’s rights takes seconds. Signing your name on a petition for change is instant. It all starts with an ally. To help combat sexism in sport, join the team and stand up for what’s right. Be the change!

Jackson vs Booker, 2023

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REFERTO MEDICO DIMOSTRA CHE IMANE KHELIF È UN MASCHIO BIOLOGICO

Fonte: The Telegraph

I risultati del test di verifica del genere di Imane Khelif ai Campionati del Mondo 2023 sono stati pubblicati per la prima volta. Il referto medico sembra indicare che la pugile è un maschio biologico.

Appena 36 ore dopo che la World Boxing aveva stabilito che Imane Khelif, controversa campionessa olimpica di boxe femminile ai Giochi di Parigi della scorsa estate, avrebbe dovuto sottoporsi a un test di verifica del genere per essere idonea a eventuali future apparizioni nella categoria femminile, il documento al centro di questa straordinaria saga è stato rilasciato nel pubblico dominio.

Alan Abrahamson, il giornalista americano che ha rivelato a Parigi come il Comitato Olimpico Internazionale (CIO) fosse stato avvertito più di un anno prima che Khelif aveva il DNA di un "maschio", ha prodotto il risultato di un test effettuato sulla pugile a Nuova Delhi nel marzo 2023, innescando la squalifica dai campionati di quell'anno.

Il documento pubblicato sul sito web di 3 Wire Sports riassume i risultati su Khelif come "anormali", affermando: "L'analisi cromosomica rivela il cariotipo maschile". Un cariotipo si riferisce all'insieme completo di cromosomi di un individuo, che nel caso di Khelif è stato segnalato dall'International Boxing Association (IBA) come XY, il modello maschile.

I risultati dei test sono riaccompagnati dalla carta intestata del Dr. Lal PathLabs di Nuova Delhi, accreditato dall'American College of Pathologists e certificato dall'Organizzazione internazionale per la standardizzazione con sede in Svizzera. Ciò mette in discussione direttamente la versione del portavoce del CIO Mark Adams, che in una tesa conferenza stampa alle Olimpiadi di Parigi ha descritto i risultati come "ad hoc" e "non legittimi".

Thomas Bach, il presidente del CIO, è andato anche oltre, sostenendo che i risultati sono il prodotto di una campagna di disinformazione guidata dalla Russia. Ha sottolineato in un'intervista all'inizio di quest'anno che l'IBA, guidata dal russo Umar Kremlev, era stata privata del riconoscimento del CIO per motivi di etica e gestione finanziaria. L'autenticazione ufficiale del laboratorio indiano che ha condotto i test su Khelif aumenta la pressione sul CIO per spiegare perché ritiene che i risultati siano illegittimi.

Vedi, vedi le meraviglie della scienza? E io che ero rimasta alle mie superficiali considerazioni empiriche, tipo che mi sembrasse un uomo perchè aveva una nerchia da 20 cm. che gli ballonzolava nei pantaloncini di raso. Quanto pressapochismo da parte mia.

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BREAKING: TWO “Female Boxers” Set To Compete At Paris 2024 Were Previously Disqualified From Women’s World Championship For Having “XY Chromosomes”

By

Anna Slatz

July 27, 2024

Two athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as “women” were previously disqualified from a women’s world championship for having “XY chromosomes.” Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing next week despite past questions surrounding their biological sex.

The Women’s World Boxing Championships took place in March of 2023 and was hosted in New Delhi, India. A total of 324 boxers from 64 nations competed during the 10-day trial, marking the largest participation in any iteration of the championship ever recorded.

However, the grand event was marred by controversy after Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), announced the disqualification of multiple boxers from the championship.

Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the championship’s grand finale to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism,” after concerns were raised about the biological sex of some participants. He added that after “a series of DNA-tests,” the IBA “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”

Speaking to TASS News, Kremlev claimed that the tests had proven the athletes in question “had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.”

Among the disqualified was Imane Khelif, an Algerian boxer who had been set to challenge Yang Liu of China in the welterweight final. Khelif was removed from the gold medal fight, and Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng, who had lost to Khelif in the semi-finals, was allowed to proceed to fight Yang instead.

In a public statement, the IBA wrote that “a boxer from Algeria, Imane Khelif, was excluded from the IBA World Boxing Championships due to the failure to meet the IBA eligibility criteria.” But the Algerian Olympic Committee denied the IBA’s claims, attributing Khelif’s disqualification to a “conspiracy” to prevent Algeria from having a gold medal in boxing.

While they vaguely alluded to Khelif being struck for “medical reasons” surrounding high testosterone levels, they added that they would be supporting Khelif’s journey to the 2024 Paris Olympics regardless.

But following the controversial disqualification, a female boxer came forward to discuss her experience fighting Khelif in the ring at the championship.

“When I fought with her I felt very out of my depth,” Mexican boxer Brianda Tamara wrote on X. “Her blows hurt me a lot, I don’t think I had ever felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely, and it’s good that they finally realized,” Tamara said.

A second boxer was similarly disqualified by the IBA at the event, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, who was also stripped of a bronze medal.

Lin had previously won 5 gold medals in women’s boxing tournaments.

Lin Yu-Ting winning gold and a $100,000 prize at a 2022 women’s boxing championship.

Despite having faced the disqualification just last year, both boxers will be competing in Paris as female boxers.

Khelif is scheduled to fight Italy’s Angela Carini on August 1, while Lin Yu-Ting is set to be matched the next day.

While neither have stated they identify as transgender, it is suspected that both are impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), a category of medical conditions encompassing any problem noted at birth where the genitalia are atypical in relation to the chromosomes or gonads.

DSDs in elite sports first came to public attention during the meteoric rise of South African runner Caster Semenya. Semenya’s rapid improvements in performance beginning in 2009 initially triggered suspicions of drug use, and World Athletics (then called the IAAF) was internationally denounced for requesting Semenya take a test to ascertain his biological sex.

Most women, including elite female athletes, have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L), but Semenya has XY chromosomes and male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L. Years later, a decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sport revealed that Semenya has a DSD where the normal male sexual development fails in utero, resulting in external genitals that appear to be a vagina at birth, but was in fact an underdeveloped penis.

Speaking to Reduxx, a representative with the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) condemned the confusion that had emerged surrounding the sex of competitors due to the International Olympic Committee’s 2000 decision to end sex-verification screening.

“The IOC’s decision to end sex-verification screening in 2000 has caused distrust and confusion in women’s sports ever since,” ICONS co-founder Marshi Smith said. “Its 2021 decision to offload the responsibility for international eligibility criteria to individual sporting bodies has resulted in varied standards and widespread chaos among athletes, coaches, officials, and the public.”

Smith notes that a new boxing qualification system was implemented for the 2024 Olympics in which an ad-hoc unit was created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board to organize the boxing competitions for Paris 2024.

This new unit was set up after the International Boxing Association (IBA), which had previously disqualified Khelif and Lin from women’s championships, was suspended by the IOC due to concerns it was receiving funding from Russia.

In the FAQ for the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit, no gender eligibility guidelines are specified, something Smith suggests likely indicates that individual nations were given a tremendous amount of power to deem their own athletes eligible.

“In boxing, the recent contentious split between the IBA and the IOC has now placed Olympic eligibility power into the hands of national boxing federations, allowing countries like Algeria and Taiwan to set their own standards and continue placing male boxers in the ring with female athletes in combat for women’s Olympic medals,” Smith explains.

“The physical abuse of women on an Olympic stage eliminates the integrity of all Olympic events and risks lifelong injury or even death for female athletes. This deceit cannot be allowed to continue.”

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The Associated Press has come under fire for handing out its third-place slot for female athlete of the year to Imane Khelif, the controversial Olympic boxer who failed gender tests.

The AP announced its award rankings, noting that its Female Athlete of the Year was WNBA star rookie Caitlin Clark. The next two runners-up were U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles in second place and Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, who took third place with four votes.

Khelif, of course, stirred controversy for failing gender tests and being disqualified from the women’s category in boxing competitions throughout 2023 but was nonetheless allowed to box as a woman in the Paris Olympics this year. Unsurprisingly, the Algerian destroyed every woman faced in the ring and won the gold medal in boxing in August.

“The IBA disqualified Khelif, fighting in the 66-kilogram division, and Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, fighting in the 57-kilogram division, from fighting in its women’s tournaments in March 2023 on the grounds that they failed unspecified tests to confirm that they fit the governing body’s definition of a woman,” Breitbart’s Frances Martel reports. “IBA President Umar Kremlev told the Russian news agency Tass at the time that Lin and Khelif ‘have XY chromosomes,’ the genetic makeup of a human male.

“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed Lin and Khelif to compete because it does not use the IBA testing standards, requiring athletes only to present their passports and qualifying them to compete as men or women, depending on how their countries classify them.”

But with the revelation that the boxer, who was determined to have male XY chromosomes, landed in third place in AP’s female athlete of the year voting, many took to social media to blast the wire service for its inclusion of Khelif.

One of the most notable detractors of AP’s choice is tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who jumped to her X account to proclaim “Wtaf???”