The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports

Obviously women are only allowed to compete if they have six children and do the fundie baby voice just right.

Put simply, it was never really about transgender women, they were just used to create a psuedoscientific smokescreen around the same thing that misogyny has always been about: policing women's bodies. If the patriarchy doesn't consider you a woman, you don't get to be one.

Imane Khelif, Lin Yu-ting or any woman's testosterone levels give no more an advantage than Michael Phelps height, wingspan, hand/feet size and his body producing less lactic acid that shortened his recovery time. Yet nobody was screaming from their high horse about Phelps domination in the pool.

"The IOC insisted this week that no scientific or political consensus exists on gender and fairness issues. It gave updated guidance to sports governing bodies in 2021." Source

Right wingnuts can go fuck themselves.

I was listening on NPR about how women were checked for femininity and given a card after an official go to see their reproductive organs for Olympic sports. Fun times!

No surprises here. You cannot be having babies and making sandwiches if you are doing sports.

We do not know what is between Imane Khelif's legs. It is absolutely possible to be XY and be born with a vagina that looks and works like any vagina. They might even have rudimentary (but non-functional) female reproductive organs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

If that is true about Imane Khelif, she may not even have known about it most of her life.

Should all Olympians be genetically tested or just examined to see what's between their legs? If the former, which event do the women with Swyer Syndrome perform in? How about people with both sets of genitalia? They exist. What about people who are XXY or XYY?

And if you think the latter- please do justify that sort of invasive examination for the purposes of athletic competition. Unpaid athletic competition at that.

IMO this reflects the conservative mindset that everything is black and white and that if they believe it then it will manifest itself as truth. Even if they have to force it to be so in a convoluted and hypocritical way.

What I think is that nature gives some people the mutation that could save humanity one day. The ability for XX and XX to make a XY if all the XY are unavailable. Mother Nature shows this is a rule in many of the other species on this planet.

Simply have a trans category. How hard is that?

I'm just saying how it has to be, not how it is now.

Oh boy, what a load of bullshit.

Khelif DOES NOT qualify as a true woman and has been excluded from entering female-only competitions in the past.

Be it by birth, by hormones or whatever, he/she does not qualify as a woman. That's a fact.

Other female athletes already have protested that Khelif is allowed for Olympia. That's also the reason why the opponent of this particular fight REJECTED to bump gloves after the fight, which is usually performed, out of opposition Khelif was allowed to enter the competition in the first place. This is considered rude and might have consequences but for her it was so important to make this statement and indicate the unfairness of that fight she's risking it.

Female sports are female sports to protect females from ahletes which are outside of what makes a femals a female. That's the reason men are not allowed to fight against women in Olympic boxing. Why? Because it would be unfair, that's why. And that exactly is the reason Khelif has an unfair advantage because she's not female enough to enter female boxing competition. Chess? Fine but not boxing. It's also not in the slightest a judgement about her personality, character or whatever. Against males or in a "free" class, okay, but female class? No! That'd be unfair. And history has shown Khelif was NOT allowed to fight agains other female athletes in the past.

And all this has nothing to do with "extremist right wing". Nothing with men vs women, nothing about feminism or whatever. It's pure fact checking and what qualifies as woman and what not. To have a fair competition for the other female athletes.

Why isn't this labeled as an opinion piece? There's nothing in here to substantiate the headline and almost no journalism. I'm not used to work like this from The Intercept.

This is stupid. There's no "far right" to purge women.. the outcry is whether or not women's sports are being treated fairly. The whole controversy about this boxing issue started when information was released that this female has failed gender tests in the past. Of course there's going to be an outcry from people.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/two-disqualified-failing-meet-eligibility-criteria-world-champs-2023-03-26/

Imane Khelif was disqualified for not meeting gender criteria from world championship.

Edit to all: I am not against LGBT+ or anything. I just post news, take what you want.

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