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Why Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are men, and the 3 things the IOC did to promote violence against women.

Are we really surprised that two men are now beating up on women at the boxing in Paris?

The International Olympic Committee did three things that meant this was always going to happen.

First, they abolished sex testing in favour of athletes self-identifying.

Second, they prioritised inclusion over fairness as their guiding principle.

And third, they issued journalists covering the games with strict speech guides designed to obfuscate over the issue of sex.

Let me run through these one by one, and you’ll see that this controversy is entirely of the IOC’s own making.

1. How the IOC abolished sex testing

Once upon a time, athletes might have needed to prove their sex by dropping their pants. Crude? Yes. But at least you didn’t need professionals in a lab to analyse the results.

As the child in Kindergarten Cop famously said, “Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.”

More recently, a simple swab of the inside of the cheek was used to determine a competitor’s sex.

This test was far less intrusive than dropping one’s pants. In fact, it was less intrusive than even a test for performance-enhancing drugs.

And athletes were fine with it.

At the 1996 Atlanta Games the IOC asked female athletes if the cheek swab should continue. Eighty-two percent said ‘yes’.

The elite women were also asked if the swab to determine sex made them feel “anxious”, and an almost unanimous 94 percent replied ‘no’, it did not.

So what did the IOC do?

They scrapped the test at the Sydney Games in 2000.

At the Rio Games 16 years later, the Women’s 800m gold, silver and bronze medals all went to men!

Oops.

But no noses were broken, so little fuss was made.

At this year’s Paris Games, though — where men have been able to identify as women using nothing but their passports as evidence — it has been more than women’s pride that has been hurt.

IOC spokesman Mark Adams told journalists yesterday:

“Everyone wants a black and white explanation as to how we can determine this. That explanation does not exist in the scientific community, nor anywhere else.

“I think we are open to listening to anyone with a solution.”

For the love of God, someone send Mr Adams a VHS tape of Kindergarten Cop.

Boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan don’t have penises but do have XY chromosomes.

If you’re wondering, that means they’re men.

That the pair had XY chromosomes was confirmed on on 25 March 2023, when International Boxing Association President Umar Kremlev announced they would be banned from boxing.

The progressive left, of course, complains that the pair look like females, were assigned female at birth and have lived as females.

They be like:

Believe the science. Except for that chromosome stuff. Even though it’s withstood peer review since 1881. Don’t believe that!’

So, to repeat, Khelif and Lin Yu-ting don’t have a dangly thing between their legs, but they do have XY chromosomes.

So there you go. They are males. End of story. This is not complicated stuff.

Their condition is known as a DSD which stands for Difference of Sexual Development.

They are not “intersex”.

DSD is an actual condition, though, and is caused by a genetic defect where, in this case, a biological male (we know they are male because they have XY chromosomes) is missing the receptor to create external male genitalia.

Most commonly, especially in developing countries, these males are determined to be female at birth — because there is no penis — and raised as girls.

But when puberty hits, they start producing testosterone at normal levels, ending up with the strength, muscles, height and power of other men.

Caster Semenya, who won gold in the Women’s 800m at Rio, has this condition.

Some people have wondered why the International Boxing Association — whose ban the International Olympic Committee has ignored — doesn’t just release the medical test results.

Well, they cannot, because the medical results are protected. The IBA would be sued.

Of course, Khelif and Lin could release the tests themselves. But they have chosen not to do so.

I wonder why.

And the pair could have challenged the IBA ruling. But Lin did not. And Khelif withdrew his challenge before it could proceed through the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Why would they not have taken the chance to establish that they were female in an irrefutable and legally binding way in a fully independent court?

Hmmm. I wonder why.

It’s worth noting that all decisions by the Court of Arbitration for Sport are public information. (It’s through the CAS that we know Caster Semenya had XY chromosomes)

Now you know why.

But back to Difference of Sexual Development (DSD). There are three things you should know about this condition.

First, we should be compassionate toward people with this condition since it must be incredibly difficult to live with.

Second, trans activists have used people with DSD to try to prove that sex exists on a spectrum — which it does not. Sex is binary.

Finally, sports coaches in some countries began looking for males with DSD to train for female competition after the IOC dropped sex testing in favour of self-identifying in 1999.

So, to be clear, the International Boxing Association banned Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting after determining they had XY chromosomes.

That they apparently do not have penises is not proof that they are females or that they are a mixture of male and female (which is not actually a thing). It is, rather, symptomatic of a defect in their sexual development.

In other words, they are men with a DSD condition that requires compassion, but not entry into female sports.

2. How the IOC prioritised inclusion over fairness

The IOC recently issued a gender framework document that stated there should be “no presumption of advantage” just because a competitor is male or has a DSD.

Everyone knows that is utterly ridiculous.

But the gender framework document makes it clear that “inclusion” is its guiding principle.

I know what you’re thinking. What about fairness?

Fairness isn’t even the IOC’s second principle. After “inclusion”, they list “prevention of harm” as a priority.

Not prevention of harm to women — such as Angela Carini, who quit her bout with Khelif after 45 seconds with a suspected broken nose.

Instead, the IOC is all about prevention of harm to men who identify as women.

The IOC is keen to protect blokes in female categories from ridicule and sanction because, well, refer back to the first principle of “inclusion”.

Sorry ladies.

The IOC’s own guiding principles only serve to empower misogyny and put women in danger of physical harm.

3. How the IOC ensures reporting of events is obfuscated to protect men identifying as women

The International Olympic Committee put out a guide for journalists covering the Games, helping listing “terms to avoid”.

Terms to be avoided included “born male”, “born female”, “biologically male” and “biologically female”.

Such terms were, the IOC said, “dehumanising”.

Hmmm.

As an interesting aside, women were banned from competing in the ski jump until 2014 for fear a crash might damage their wombs.

Yet here we are in 2024, allowing women to be smashed in the face and punched in the stomach by men. It’s amazing how much contempt trans ideology has for women.

The IOC, which has been completely captured by the progressive left (did you see the Opening Ceremony?) refuses to protect women, so the women have to protect themselves.

Italian boxer Angela Carini quit rather than continue against Khelif. But she should not have needed to disqualify herself in order to be safe. The IOC should have had the balls to disqualify men from the women’s competition.

Why won’t the IOC do that? Why won’t they “follow the science”, as they say?

Is it to court US sponsors?

Is it to stay “relevant”?

Are they just incredibly sexist?

It’s likely a combination of all of the above.

Unless there is a reversal of the decision by the IOC, Paris will be remembered as the Olympics that sanctioned violence against women. Medals for men beating up women.

Meanwhile, the general public — bamboozled by talk of testosterone levels and inclusion — is more confused than ever about what a woman is.

It’s actually quite simple.

Allowing Khelif and Lin Yu-ting to compete in women’s boxing is morally wrong, physically dangerous, culturally divisive and biologically flawed.

The IOC, their supporters in the media and the soft-headed do-gooders who cheer them on in the name of “inclusion” have zero credibility.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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