Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 1, 2024 / 16:46 pm (CNA).
An Algerian boxer with male chromosomes defeated an Italian woman boxer in an Olympics boxing match on Thursday after landing a devastating punch to the woman’s face in the brief 46-second fight.
The winning boxer — Imane Khelif — has XY chromosomes, according to a 2023 International Boxing Association eligibility test that got the boxer disqualified from the World Championships that year.
Typically, men have XY chromosomes and women have XX chromosomes, but a person born with a sexual development disorder can sometimes have both male and female sexual characteristics, such as someone born with Swyer syndrome having XY chromosomes and female genitalia.
Khelif has never publicly identified as transgender and has not disclosed any sexual development disorders, so the reason for the test result is unclear. Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, who was also disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for tests showing XY chromosomes, will also compete against women in the 2024 Olympics.
Both Khelif and Lin competed in the 2020 Olympics as well, prior to the release of those tests.
Angela Carini, who lost the fight to Khelif, left the boxing ring in tears and refused to shake Khelif’s hand. While still in the ring, she reportedly yelled “this is unjust,” according to the New York Post.
In a post-fight interview, Carini said she had “never been hit so hard in my life,” according to the Post. According to Yahoo Sports, she apologized to her country after the game for only lasting 46 seconds into the fight.
“I had entered the ring to fight,” Carini said, according to Yahoo. “I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I go out with my head held high.”
The article also reported that Carini’s coach, Emanuel Renzini, said postgame that many people discouraged her from competing in the fight, telling her: “Don’t go, don’t go, please. She’s a man. It’s dangerous for you.”
Mary Rice Hasson, the director of the Person and Identity Project at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, told CNA that a sexual development disorder “does not make someone ‘not male’” and that “genetics don’t lie.”
“The [International Olympic Committee’s] decision to permit males who self-identify as ‘women’ to participate in women’s sports — particularly a physically brutal sport like boxing — is unconscionable,” Hasson said. “The female Italian boxer stopped the match because she felt her life was in danger, after being pummeled by the male Algerian boxer for less than a minute.”
Hasson said the situation “exposes, on the world stage, the ludicrous nature of the ‘transgender’ charade” and added that “males and females are biologically different, from conception, and sex cannot change.” She said the committee’s “wokeness” violates “the true Olympic spirit of fair competition [and] … degrades and endangers female competitors.”
Former swimmer Riley Gaines — who competed against the biologically male transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in college — said in a post on X that the Olympic fight “is glorified male violence against women.”
“Call me crazy, but it’s almost as if women don’t want to be punched in the face by a male as the world watches and applauds,” Gaines said.
Khelif’s next Olympic match is scheduled for Saturday against Hungarian boxer Luca Anna Hamori. Lin’s first match is scheduled for Friday against Uzbekistani boxer Sitora Turdibekova.
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There is no such reality as a “boxer with male chromosomes.” You’re either a man or a woman. Here’s the reality check: the Olympic gods deigned to allow a man to pummel a woman. Let’s set the record straight.
The Olympic Games, just like so much of our perverse culture, has turned sports into an arena for politics. Soon, sports will have fragmented into total chaos. There will be no order to the enterprise and it will end. My guess is that that is what the poseurs wanted all along. Have at it.
Thank you.
And let us never use the phrase “biological man” or “biological woman.”
And the thing is, from the photos I have seen, this fellow isn’t even trying to look like a woman.
Khelif is a coward. If he were not, he would box other men. Instead, he boxes women. Only the weakling, the wimp, the craven recreant, the yellow-bellied milksop, and the scaredy-cat chicken type of man abuses women. Khelif is that type of man.
If I may offer a suggestion for an alternative headline: A perverted man pretending to be a woman beats up a real woman in a boxing match. CNA can get my email from CWR if they would like make me an offer.
I don’t know the background story here but I have a family member who works in a hospital dept. where newborns with genital anomalies or ambiguities are treated. A simple DNA test will almost always reveal the correct gender.
If the boxer had been born in a “First World” hospital his condition, if he suffers from one, might have been identified early. Perhaps that’s the case in Algeria also. I just don’t know.
I do not follow the Olympics but I looked into that fight. Well, it was a man. A man! With much more developed muscles, male configuration of the body including his face, taller etc.
I emphasize with Carini; she has done well not allowing this butchering to continue. If I was a sportswoman I would refuse participation in this unjust, degrading madness. In my opinion, all women should refuse. Perhaps we should have our own “Females only Olympics”.
PS Feminists have been saying that the whole “trans-ideology” is an adult on women, men now legally entering our safe spaces.
Anna, You are perfectly correct, as a normal man I could spot three more advantages this absolute scoundrel would have. The International Boxing Association ,an NGO that governs the sport worldwide ,discovered what he was back in 2020 and banned him and his sort. Last year they did testing in advance with the same result. The IOC is setting itself up was the world arbiter of this. There may be a complete break with the IBA over this.
Our world has descended into utter madness.
Carini needs a medal for refusing to “play”.
We can support her by refusing to watch.
The address, email address and telephone number of C Spire, please.
There’s got to be a word in the English language that captures the essence of the writing style of CNA succinctly. Bureaucratic, robotic, effeminate, politically correct, dull, legalistic, neutered, fastidious all are good adjectives for various aspects of their prose, but there must be something sums them all up neatly. Perhaps someone with a more expansive vocabulary can identify the term that eludes me.
As The Veil is being lifted, we can see, clearly, how the hand of the atheist materialistic overpopulation alarmist globalists is everywhere.
“In order to Return to order, we must return to God.”
Some interesting complications, here, plus a simple solution…
The first woman to win an Olympic event was Spartan princess Cyniscia whose horses won events, while still raced by male charioteers (396-312 B.C.),
Olympic male decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner now pretends to be a woman after doing some stuff to his body,
Marion Jones won five gold medals in the 2000 Olympics, but then admitted to using banned substances, and then returned the medals….Should an XY chromosome also be a disqualifying substance?
In the 1981 movie “Chariots of Fire,” a long-distance scene reveals that in Greece all of the (male) athletes competed nude….A “brief” scene, so to speak, and about which–
A SIMPLE SOLUTION: Wondering, here for elementary fairness, whether the IOC–meaning the Indifferent Olympics Committee–might favor reinstating this clear Greek tradition, since it seems they already clearly defend the more outlier and blasphemous drag-queen float in the Seine–or, as in personal “pronoun” is it pronounced “sane” or in-sane(!), or whatever?
Let’s lay bare the facts of this man. His pretended masculininity aspiring to femininity has been stripped. Nature, reason, and belief in the God of Abraham take offense. This boxer is a man without cajones. His hits and aims—fast, forceful, potentially fatal—are similar to God’s aims, but God’s aim [truth] is actual. God will judge as we have judged. Our wayward world is so backward that many have chosen to foster Khelif’s behaving as if he is a she.
[Even Grammarcheck flagged ‘he is a she’ as an error. Now that this has been pointed out, it too may change….Be ready, dear folks, to prepare for the way of the Lord.]