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Sunday, August 04, 2024

"Here for the Gold"

"It could have been the match of a lifetime but I had to preserve my life as well in that moment. I am heartbroken."
"I wasn't able to finish the match. I felt a strong pain to my nose. I have never been hit so hard in my life."
"[It concerned me that I let down my nation and my father] But I stopped for myself, because it could have been a match of my lifetime, but I had to preserve my life as well in that moment."
"I didn't have fear, I don't fear the ring. I don't fear taking the blows. But this time everything, and I put an end to this match because I wasn't able to [continue]."
Italian boxer Angela Carini 

"The recognized test conclusively indicated that both athletes [transgender Algerian Imane Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting] did not meet the required necessary eligibility criteria and were found to have competitive advantages over other female competitors."
International Boxing Association

"[The International Olympic Committee in 2021 embraced a] framework for inclusion and non-discrimination [in Olympic sport that there be no] presumption of disproportionate competitive advantage [as a result of sex variations or transgender status]."
International Olympic Committee
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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria and Angela Carini of Team Italy exchange punches during the Women’s 66kg preliminary round match on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena on August 1, 2024 in Paris, France.   Richard Pelham/Getty Images
 
The height of scientific absurdity has become the hallmark of sport associations within the international community, socially bludgeoned under a barrage of loud demands that gender dysphoria be recognized as a legitimate natural biological occurrence. So that human beings recognized at birth by their genitalia as either male or female have the respected freedom to declare themselves other than the gender 'assigned' to them at birth. Men and women, boys and girls claiming discomfort between mind and body accepted at face value transitioning to the opposite gender.

Addicted to sports and to excelling among their gender peers it has become permissible and legitimately recognized by sport bodies to accept males declaring themselves female where their athletic prowess can be far more successful competing against biological female athletes than against more skilled and physically powerful male athletes in their field of sport. 
 
An allure that calls to those whose ambition cannot be satisfied as a male among males. With their male attributes of strength, agility, speed and endurance attributable to their male inheritance against women whom nature has endowed with lesser musculature and strength, transgender females bristle at skeptics pointing out that nature biologically designed two genders in her kingdom of varied creatures. Setting aside biological anomalies whereby unusual chromosome combinations add to the confusion.

Biological males, recognized as transgendered females rob biological females of their human rights in eagerly using their male-dominated physical attributes in competing against women. Women find themselves in a male-dominated world once again when arbiters of fairness in sport feel justified in permitting transitioned 'females' or those born with 46,XY chromosomes to compete with biologically female athletes. Competition in female sport categories has been corrupted to benefit men posing as women.
 
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Angela Carini stopped her fight against Algeria's Imane Khelif just 46 seconds into the Round of 16 bout. Khelif is one of two boxers permitted to fight at the Olympics despite being disqualified from the women’s world championships last year for failing testosterone and gender eligibility tests.
 
Angela Carini was forced to abandon her Olympic opening bout against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. Khelif dominated the ring, in a brutal display of male strength against a female boxer whose athletic prowess as a female lacked the strength and muscular dynamism of male athletes. She and others like her have been bullied and harassed into accepting the presence of male-as-female competitors they must face as though their capabilities are biologically equal.

Khelif represented Algeria as an amateur boxer at the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Both he and another boxer, Lin Yu-ting representing Taiwan, had been disqualified from the Women's World Boxing Championships by the International Boxing Association when two tests conducted on each yielded results disqualifying them as female athletes. Despite which the IOC declared that both women met the gender eligibility criteria to compete in Paris 2024.

Following a massive blow to the chin 30 seconds after the round began, 25-year-old Carini ended the round, returning to her corner before resuming the fight when she took a punch to the face and informed her trainer the fight was to end. As the referee declared Khelif the winner, Carini walked back to her corner without shaking Khelif's hand, the usual formality. She fell to her knees instead, in tears. 

Male anatomical muscular and skeletal attributes, according to research, enable males to deliver blows twice as powerfully as women are able to, when each has equal levels of fitness. The difference is that of male physical attributes as opposed to natural female fitness attributes. "I'm here for the gold -- I fight everybody", Khelif told interviewers.

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Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, is seen beside Italy's Angela Carini after their women's 66kg round of 16 match at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. (John Locher/The Associated Press)

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