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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better?
URL: https://x.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1819033669459194026
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J.K. Rowling: Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s 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. #Paris2024 Jay Anderson - Project Unity: Male chromosomes, male bio chemistry, male muscle tone, male fighter. This should be illegal. |
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From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better?
| yes, it should be illegal in my opinion, its an unequal match from the get go! |
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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Statement made by the International Boxing Association
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Imane Khelif had XY chromosomes... aka, male Statement made by the International Boxing Association regarding Athletes Disqualifications in World Boxing Championships 2023 July 31st, 2024 / IBA As stated, the International Boxing Association (IBA) feels it appropriate at this prevalent time, to address recent media statements regarding those athletes Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif, particularly regarding their participation in the Paris Olympic Games 2024. We wish to make the following points in these regards: On 24 March 2023, IBA disqualified athletes Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif from the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships New Delhi 2023. This disqualification was a result of their failure to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women’s competition, as set and laid out in the IBA Regulations. This decision, made after a meticulous review, was extremely important and necessary to uphold the level of fairness and utmost integrity of the competition. Point to note, the athletes did not undergo a testosterone examination but were subject to a separate and recognized test, whereby the specifics remain confidential. This test conclusively indicated that both athletes did not meet the required necessary eligibility criteria and were found to have competitive advantages over other female competitors. The decision made by IBA on 24 March 2023, was subsequently ratified by the IBA Board of Directors on 25 March 2023. The official record of this decision can be accessed on the IBA website here IBA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes. The disqualification was based on two tests conducted on both athletes as follows: Test performed during the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul 2022. Test performed during the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi 2023. For clarification Lin Yu-ting did not appeal the IBA’s decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), thus rendering the decision legally binding. Imane Khelif initially appealed the decision to CAS but withdrew the appeal during the process, also making the IBA decision legally binding. Our Committees have rigorously reviewed and endorsed the decision made during the World Championships. While IBA remains committed to ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we express concern over the inconsistent application of eligibility criteria by other sporting organizations, including those overseeing the Olympic Games. The IOC’s differing regulations on these matters, in which IBA is not involved, raise serious questions about both competitive fairness and athletes’ safety. For clarification on why the IOC permits athletes with competitive advantages to compete in their events, we urge interested parties to seek answers directly from the IOC. Yours sincerely, International Boxing Association |
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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: A boxer deemed a 'biological male' today won against an Italian woman
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A boxer deemed a 'biological male' today won against an Italian woman in one of the most controversial Olympic bouts ever. The fight between Italy's Angela Carini and her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif took just 46 seconds, with the Italian throwing her helmet onto the floor as the clash was abandoned, yelling: 'This is unjust.' The 25-year-old refused the handshake and fell to the canvas sobbing having received just two punches from Khelif - who had been banned from a major boxing contest before the Olympics. The video player is currently playing an ad. Khelif was thrown out of last year's world championships after failing testosterone tests carried out to establish gender qualification. After the match was stopped, the referee raised Khelif's hand in the air. But a visibly furious Carini yanked her own hand away from the fight official and walked off. Ignoring the Algerian, the Italian fighter then plunged to her knees and burst into tears as she said she had never felt such strong blows in a contest before. Speaking after the match, the heartbroken Italian said: 'I'm used to suffering. I've never taken a punch like that, it's impossible to continue. I'm nobody to say it's illegal. 'I got into the ring to fight. But I didn't feel like it anymore after the first minute. I started to feel a strong pain in my nose. I didn't give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I'm leaving with my head held high.' She said she did not walk away from the fight as a protest against her opponent's inclusion, but that was a decision for the Olympics to consider. She was taken away for medical assessment to examine the seriousness of her facial injuries which included a bruised nose. Do you think this was a fair match-up? Yes No Unsure Carini added: 'I entered the ring and I told myself I have to take out all of myself independently from the person I had in front of me. 'And honestly, I don't care. I said to myself, 'This is my Olympics'. Independently, from all controversy, I just wanted to carry on and win.' 'I am not one that easily surrenders. Even if they told me, let's not fight, I would not have accepted it. 'I am a fighter. My father taught me to be a warrior. When I am in the ring, I use that mindset, the mindset of a warrior, a winning mindset. This time I couldn't make it. 'You all saw my nose that started bleeding. I didn't lose tonight, I just surrendered with maturity.' 'I wish her to carry on until the end and that she can be happy. I am someone who doesn't judge anyone. I am not here to give judgements. 'I simply entered the ring to fight and to fight for my dream. It didn't happen. Evidently, God and my father wanted this and I accept it. 'I am not in the position of saying this is right or wrong. I am not. I did my job as a boxer, entering the ring and fighting. I didn't manage to, but I am exiting with my head held high and with a broken heart. 'I am a mature woman, the ring is my life. I've always been very instinctive, but when I feel something is not going well, it's not a surrender but having the maturity to stop.' Carini's coach in the mix zone after the fight said: 'I don't know if her nose is broken. I have to speak with the girl. But many people in Italy tried to call and tell her: 'Don't go please: it's a man, it's dangerous for you.' After the fight, the Algerian Boxing Federation gloated about Khelif's victory, posting on Facebook: 'Congratulations to the Algerian boxer Iman Khalif, who responds strongly in the ring and qualifies for the quarterfinals, after defeating the Italian Angelina Carini in less than 46 seconds, effortlessly.' Speaking as she left the ring, the Algerian boxer added: 'God willing, this was the first victory. God is willing me to the golden one.' Bosses at the IOC are now facing a furious backlash following the fight, with former Prime Minister Liz Truss blasting the clash. Read More Sharron Davies, Liz Truss and JK Rowling's Olympic fury as female boxer loses to 'biological male' article image Writing on Twitter, the former Tory MP said: 'When will this madness stop? Men cannot become women. Why is the British Government not objecting to this?' British Olympic hero Sharron Davies also waded into the controversy, raging: 'This is shocking. The IOC are a bloody disgrace. In effect legalising beating up females. This must stop!!! What the hell's the matter with them?' While Harry Potter author JK Rowling branded the contest 'insanity'. In a post yesterday, the gender-critical author wrote: 'What will it take to end this insanity? A female boxer left with life-altering injuries? A female boxer killed?' Posting a video of the fight today, the author added: 'Watch this (whole thread), then explain why you're OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn't sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women.' Carini is an Italian police officer with the Fiamme Oro. Her mantra is: 'Boxing is a sport that teaches you to have respect for your opponent. It can be a weapon in life, but only for defence. It cannot and must not become an abuse. Like any sport, it can instead become a vehicle for venting anger and pain.' But despite her gender test problems, she was admitted to the Olympics amid a huge furore. Olympics officials at Paris 2024 have accepted her as a female and state so in her official games biography. Another female boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan was also disqualified from the 2023 women's boxing world championships for failing a gender eligibility test. Former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan - now president of the Professional Boxing Association - said it was a 'shocking' and 'pathetic' decision to allow 'a man' to fight women. Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA) has said after a series of DNA-tests the association 'uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretended to be women. Kremlev claimed that the tests 'proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.' Italy's sports minister Andrea Abodi raised concerns about Khelif competing, but Angela Carini was on record as saying that 'respect' of her opponents was her mantra. Algeria's Olympic Committee condemned as 'baseless' the attacks on their boxer after questions were raised over her participation at the Paris Olympics. But Khelif, who competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, only fell into controversy after failing the tests last year in New Delhi. She received resounding applause from staunch Algerian supporters as she entered the ring, but there were several boos. At 5'10 and two inches taller than her police officer opponent, Khelif showed off her power with a series of powerful punches early in the three round contest. But it was over in less than a minute. Italian officials had already protested the inclusion of the Algerian and Olympic officials were assessing how to deal with further controversies surrounding the Algerian as she fights her way towards a medal. Carini's father also served in the police, but was injured in an accident when she was a toddler and had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Speaking in 2020, she said: 'My father is my hero. I am very attached to him, he taught me that in life you should never give up. And when I'm in the ring and the situation gets tough, I hear his example, I never give up. 'When he was paralysed I was only two years old. I grew up on his legs, he never made me miss anything. I have never seen him as a different father from the others, the chair on which he is sitting has never divided us, quite the contrary.' Her father died away in 2021, a few days after her Olympic debut at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, and she considered quitting the sport. 'I didn't want to box without my dad anymore. But I came back because I owe it to him. He has always been by my side and now we fight together.' The clash comes amid a gender storm at the Olympics over 'biologically male' fighters competing in the female divisions. IOC bosses overseeing the Olympics in Paris said Khelif met the eligibility criteria to compete - despite concerns of the boxer's biological sex. Following last year's ban, the Algerian Olympic Committee hit back, claiming the disqualification was part of a 'conspiracy' to stop them from winning a gold meal and said 'medical reasons' were behind high testosterone levels. After the disqualification, Mexico's Brianda Tamara came forward with her own experience of fighting Khelif earlier in the tournament. 'When I fought with her I felt very out of my depth,' she 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.' Also given the green light to fight is Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan, who was also thrown out of the world championships amid questions about their sex. According to feminist website Reduxx, both are thought both are impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), a series of medical conditions identified at birth where genitalia is atypical in relation to chromosomes. McGuigan is among those questioning the situation. 'It's shocking that they were actually allowed to get this far, what is going on?' he wrote on X. Elsewhere, Nancy Hogshead – the American swimmer who won three golds at the 1984 Games, waded into the row, claiming that 'gender ideology will get women KILLED'. Hogshead wrote: 'Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in women's Olympic boxing – despite being disqualified last year for having XY chromosomes, the male phenotype. Let's remind ourselves that males – however they identify – pack a punch that is 162 per cent more powerful than women – THE biggest performance gap between men and women. Gender ideology will get women KILLED.' One X user added: 'Men punching women is now officially an Olympic sport'. An IOC spokesperson said: 'All athletes participating in the boxing tournament comply with the competition's eligibility and entry regulations, as well as all applicable medical regulations, in accordance with the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit.' But Olympic chiefs' decisions to ditch rules on gender testing for athletes have been branded 'crazy' by critics. Speaking to MailOnline sports scientist Professor Ross Tucker said: 'Would you allow a 90kg fighter to fight against a 60kg fighter? 'Because that's more or less what the difference is in strength and power between male and female boxers.' Tests on both Khelif and Yu-Ting revealed XY chromosomes in their systems. Rare 'intersex' medical conditions, medically known as differences in sexual development (DSDs), can also mean outwardly female individuals can have 'male' chromosomes, or vice versa. What are differences in sex development (DSD) or being intersex? Intersex is an umbrella term for multiple of conditions that mean a person's sexual anatomy is different than most other people's. Also called 'differences in sex development' (DSD) these are rare conditions that develop in the womb. They are normally spotted at birth but occasionally only come to light later in life during puberty. They involve a combination of genes, hormones and the layout and appearance of reproductive anatomy like the genitals. For example, a girl might be born with a long clitoris but a closed vagina due to a hormonal condition. In other cases, a boy may be born with a penis but have a womb and internal, rather regular external, testicles. Some of these traits are linked to having extra chromosome like Klinefelter syndrome. There is some evidence that some DSDs can run in families but in most cases, there is no obvious cause. People with DSDs have sometimes been subjected to shocking medical treatment. So-called 'corrective surgeries' were sometimes used to 'fix' babies' genitalia to better match one sex. For example, male babies born without a penis, a DSD called aphallia, have sometimes been subjected to 'feminisation surgery' to create an artificial vagina. This has resulted, historically, in people being raised as girls but then growing facial hair and developing a deeper voice when their male puberty starts. DSD charities have also criticised this 'corrective 'approach as it usually driven by societal expectations rather than medical benefit for the patient. People with very specific DSDs do need medical care however, as there can be knock-on effects to other aspects of their health. However, the vast majority do not need any medical attention. How common DSDs are vary by type, with more than 40 individual conditions covered by the term. A rough estimate is that 1.7 per cent of the population, about one in 50 people are born with a type of DSD. Speaking yesterday International Olympic Committee spokesperson Mark Adams said: 'Everyone competing in the women's category is complying with the competition eligibility rules.' He added: 'They are women in their passports and it's stated that this is the case, that they are female.' Sports scientists told MailOnline that an absence of clear policy by the Olympics in this area had allowed the bizarre situation to develop. 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. Rules on testosterone limits had been previosuly brought into sharp focus by the very public and famous case of Caster Semenya. Semenya has a condition which means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than normal for women. She became unable to compete at Tokyo in 2020 after World Athletics brought in new rules independently of the IOC at the time. 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'. The IOC now provides individual sporting bodies in every country with 'ten guiding principles' they can use to make their own policies. This controversial document states that athletes with 'sex variations', another term for DSDs, have 'no presumption of advantage' and that they should be allowed to compete in the category of their gender identity. There are exceptions, with framework stating that an 'evidence-based approach' can be used to exclude athletes who have a 'consistent unfair disproportionate advantage' or if there is an 'unpreventable risk' to the safety of other athletes. However, some sport scientists say that, by themselves, these guidelines are wooly and open to interpretation. Federations that govern rugby, track and field, swimming and cycling have all introduced rules in some form to address biological males in women's sport, though the exact details of policies vary. And boxing did as well, with the International Boxing Association (IAB) requiring athletes to undergo 'gender assessment'. Though it doesn't detail the exact nature of these assessments, it is this test that Khelif and Lin failed last year at the IAB's Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi. At the time IBA president, Umar Kremlev, claimed the tests had proven both Khelif and Lin 'had XY chromosomes'. He added that they 'uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women'. Under these same rules and test results Khelif and Lin wouldn't be able to compete this Olympics, but the IAB was stripped of its role in governing the sport for the Paris games by the IOC due to problems with the latter's governance. The IOC created via a new body, the Paris Boxing Unit (PBU), to determine eligibility for competitors. Documents from the PBU make no mention of gender or sex testing for male or female events, though they do set limits for the age of competitors, a passport being an acceptable ID for athletes and requiring boxers in the women's category to declare if they are pregnant. Defending its decision to approve Khelif and Lin as women the IOC's Mr Adams added: 'These athletes have competed many times before for many years. They haven't just suddenly arrived.' But sports scientist Professor Tucker, said the absence of clear policy by the IOC in this area had allowed this situation to occur. 'Last year [Khelif and Lin] did not meet eligibility requirements and the only reason they do now is the body that did rule them ineligible has been moved aside,' he said. 'It's due to a vacuum of policy, there's no policy now.' |
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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: A simple cheek swab can protect female boxers
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A simple cheek swab can protect female boxers excerpt: The IOC’s dangerous and misogynistic ideas about gender inclusion are to blame for the humiliation of Angela Carini Janice Turner Friday August 02 2024 After taking questions on the women’s boxing furore with his usual huffy condescension, the International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams strived for a little consensus. “I hope,” he said, “we are all agreed we aren’t going to go back to the bad old days of sex testing.” Actually, we are not. Adams was perpetuating the myth that sex testing was archaic, cruel and degrading, involving athletes dropping their pants for doctors to check they had the “right” genitals. In fact, a sex test was conducted only once in a female athlete’s career: a quick cheek swab with a cotton bud revealing biological sex was added to her permanent record. Anti- doping tests are far more intrusive and can happen any time. But at the 1996 Atlanta Games an IOC questionnaire asked female athletes if the cheek swab should continue (82 per cent said yes) and whether it made them “anxious” (94 per cent said no). Nonetheless the IOC ignored almost 1,000 elite women who replied and abolished cheek swabs for Sydney in 2000. • Owen Slot: Stop obsession with inclusivity before IOC claims more boxing casualties That decision exemplifies the IOC’s contempt for female competitors and is the very reason the tough, seasoned Italian boxer Angela Carini abandoned her bout after 46 seconds to kneel weeping on the canvas with a bloody nose. It is also why in 2016 at Rio, the women’s 800m podium was filled entirely with biological males, including Caster Semenya who took gold. Those runners and the two controversial boxers at these Games — Imane Khelif of Algeria and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting — have a DSD (difference of sexual development), that wilfully misunderstood phenomenon. They are not “intersex” — ie between or a “mix of” the two sexes — because no one is. They almost certainly have 5-ARD: they are biological males with XY chromosomes but whose bodies lack the receptor that creates external male genitalia. In developing countries many are read as female at birth and raised as girls. But at puberty their internal testes start producing testosterone at normal levels so they acquire most of the strength, muscle mass, height and power of other men. In other words, they experience male puberty after which many start living as men. Semenya is pictured in her autobiography at 15, broad- shouldered and bare-chested on a beach in swimming trunks." |
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