The moment you quoted NYPost, you lost the debate. You know nothing, you are just another boomer bigot who sees trans everywhere.
Imane Khelif is suing those who leaked and published the lab test results. Of course, the boxer does not deny they are legitimate. The IBA is also back being involved. Note that the Chief Executive Officer of the IBA is Chris Roberts who is from the U.K. IBA chief issues staunch defence over Imane Khelif's gender eligibility test failures Exclusive: Chief executive lambastes IOC for duty of care failure to boxers who fought Algerian and Lin Yu-ting after XY chromosome detected https://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/...if-gender-eligibility-test-failure-iba-chief/ Amid the white heat of the Olympic boxing furore, with Imane Khelif taking legal action over leaked medical documents that indicate the Algerian won a women’s gold medal in Paris despite being genetically male, there is another crucial perspective to consider. Namely, that of the International Boxing Association, who banned Khelif from last year’s world championships on the basis of its own test results concluding that the boxer’s DNA was “that of a male, consisting of XY chromosomes”. The IBA sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee in June last year, warning of the safety risks that women could face at the Paris Games against a fighter who had already failed sex tests. But the IOC took no action, instead allowing Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, a second boxer whose results suggested the same difference in sexual development, to sweep to Olympic titles without losing a single round. Three months on, as the IOC pours scorn on fresh reporting in France about “unverified documents whose origin cannot be confirmed”, the IBA is mounting a staunch defence of the accuracy of its testing procedures. “It was a chromosome test, to check for XX or XY, and these two boxers didn’t meet the eligibility criteria, because they both fell into the XY category,” Chris Roberts, the IBA chief executive, tells Telegraph Sport. “They were tested twice, in 2022 and 2023. When you receive a secondary laboratory test with the same results, demonstrating that both boxers are ineligible, it’s clear. What comes with it is our obligation and our duty of care to the other athletes.” ‘Bach has taken two gold medals away from the other two finalists’ Roberts is unsparing in his argument that the IOC failed to uphold any such duty, with president Thomas Bach insisting with increasing desperation that womanhood could be determined by passport status alone. “In my opinion, Bach has taken two gold medals away from the other two finalists,” he says. “He has a heck of a lot to answer for. I find his comments totally disrespectful. How do you compete as a woman based on a passport? You or I could change our passports to do that. “We support women’s right to compete against women. In a hard sport, women shouldn’t be subject to anything outside those criteria. When women are going to compete for a gold medal at the Olympic Games, they don’t need another obstacle in the way, an obstacle that shouldn’t have been there in the first place. And these two boxers ended up winning gold medals in both categories.” Are we to believe the test results have been made up? The bad blood between the two organisations is profound. The IOC consistently claims that the IBA has a credibility deficit, stripping it of any role in organising the last two Olympic boxing tournaments due to an alleged failure to complete reforms on governance, finance and ethical issues. This overlooks two key points, however. Firstly, the Paris Boxing Unit, an ad hoc body established by the IOC to oversee this year’s Olympic bouts, was woefully unprepared to deal with the level of outrage unleashed by the involvement of Khelif and Lin. Secondly, are we supposed to believe, just because the IOC regards the IBA as unfit for purpose, that the boxers’ test results have been made up? If you listen to Bach’s bluster, yes. “It was not even clear which tests were performed,” he said in Paris. But the IBA letter does spell out the specifics, stating: “Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.” Imaging is also included, for both Khelif and Lin, of an X and Y chromosome, illustrating that the tests were conducted by a Delhi laboratory certified by the Swiss-based International Organisation for Standardisation. The problem is that the IOC refuses to accept its legitimacy, adamant that they were conducted arbitrarily. ‘We’re not brutal, we’re not monsters’ Were they, though? Two rounds of testing were undertaken: one at the 2022 world championships in Istanbul, and another at the same event in India 12 months later. Both yielded the same finding that Khelif and Lin could not enter the women’s category as they were biologically male. Lin did not appeal against the results. Khelif did initially pursue an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport but subsequently withdrew it, making the ban legally binding. “I spoke personally to Khelif’s management team about it,” Roberts says. “We were trying to manage this situation. We’re not brutal, we’re not monsters. We were just trying to come to an understanding. Where are you supposed to differentiate between XX and XY? There was nothing we could do about it. As much as you might want to highlight how upsetting this all is for the athlete, we can’t change genetic make-up.” There is also the question of why the IOC remains so dismissive about sex tests as a concept, given that Reem Alsalem, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said last month that they should be mandatory so that women’s events were ring-fenced for those born female. In a report presented to the General Assembly in New York, she wrote: “There are circumstances in which sex screenings are legitimate and proportional in order to ensure fairness and safety in sports. At the Paris Olympics, female boxers had to compete against two boxers whose sex as females was seriously contested, but the IOC refused to carry out a sex screening. Current technology enables a reliable sex screening procedure through a simple cheek swab with non-invasiveness, confidentiality and dignity.” Endorsing Alsalem’s recommendations, Roberts explains: “It would take away any ambiguity and doubt for the organisation running the event. It would have been perfect for the IOC to have followed this. Having received communication from us after the two tests were carried out, it was only right for them to have followed it up.” The ferocity of the row shows no sign of relenting. The Algerian Olympic Committee has this week criticised the “ongoing and baseless attacks” on Khelif in the wake of a leaked medical assessment, published in France, that again purports to show the boxer is XY. “These attacks aim to tarnish the image of an athlete who has brought honour to our nation on the international stage. We firmly condemn these attempts at destabilisation, which have no place in the world of sports.” The IOC has expressed similar sentiments. There would, of course, be a perfectly easy way of dialling down all the sound and fury. And it would involve Khelif undergoing a quick test – a cheek swab, as Alsalem proposes – to furnish incontrovertible evidence of being female. “Go and put your money where your mouth is,” Roberts urges. “Go and take the test. The IBA will pay for it, no problem.” It has been three months since a jubilant Khelif was carried out of the ring on the shoulders of the Algerian delegation, and that offer has still not been taken up.
HS distance runner begs school to remove trans athlete amid safety fears: 'LGBTQ is shoved down our throats' 'We live in a society where it's almost impossible to speak out on it,' Morrow said https://www.foxnews.com/sports/girl...mid-safety-fears-lgbt-shoved-down-our-throats A girls' cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, delivered an impassioned plea to her school board on Thursday amid an ongoing controversy over a trans athlete on her team. The 16-year-old high school student, Rylee Morrow, addressed a recent lawsuit by her teammates alleging that their "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts were likened to a swastika by school officials. The plaintiffs had worn the shirts after a transgender athlete, who hadn’t consistently attended practices or met key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of the girls from her spot, the complaint alleged. Athletic department school officials allegedly then forced the students to remove or conceal the shirts, claiming they created a "hostile" environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students. Morrow spoke at a Riverside Unified School District board meeting on Thursday, lambasting her school officials and the notion that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports. "I'm constantly affected by the actions taken place this season, and I have been around the females, and just my team in general, who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it, because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats!" Morrow said. "We live in a society where it's almost impossible to speak out on it without facing repercussions." Morrow said she had even approached the school's athletic director herself about the situation. She went on to passionately defend her teammates who filed the lawsuit amid comparisons of their messaging to swastikas. "It feels as though that my school and the school district is choosing to support one person instead of the whole team," Morrow said. "To see the athletic director turn around and tell my teammates that their shirts that say, ‘Save girl's sports' be compared to a swastika, that is not okay. These girls feel silenced, they felt silenced, and when they finally did something to speak out against it . . . they were completely stabbed in the back." Morrow concluded her testimony by expressing how "unsafe" the entire situation has made her feel as a girls' athlete being forced to share a locker room with a biological male. "It is not okay that I have to be in position, and I have to see a male in booty shorts, and having to see that around me, as a 16-year-old girl I don't see that as a safe environment," Morrow said. "Going into a locker room and seeing males in there, I don't find that safe, I don't find going to the bathroom safe when there's guys in there. It's not okay. I'm a 16-year-old girl!" The two girls who have filed the lawsuit, known as Kaitlyn and Taylor, previously told Fox News Digital how difficult the situation has been. "My initial reaction was like, I was really surprised, because it was like, ‘Why is this happening to me?’" Taylor said. "There's a transgender student on the team. Why am I getting displaced when "I've worked so hard and gone to all of the practices, and this student has only attended a few of the practices." The shock of having their shirts compared to swastikas was unexpected to them. "It was definitely hard to hear because we're by no means trying to be hateful," Kaitlyn said. "We're just wearing a shirt that expresses what we believe in trying to raise awareness to a situation." Martin Luther King High School is just one of many public education institutions in California that is currently embroiled in a controversy over a trans athlete on a girls' or women's sports team. Stone Ridge Christian High School's girls' volleyball team was scheduled to face San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 tournament but forfeited in an announcement just before the match over the presence of a trans athlete on the team last week. A transgender volleyball player was booed and harassed at an Oct. 12 match between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay rostered the transgender athlete. In response to complaints of boos and harassment, athletic director Steve Sell of Aragon High School in San Mateo, California, intervened. In his capacity as co-chair of the Peninsula Athletic League Athletic Directors, Sell informed Notre Dame that there could be consequences, according to ABC 7. Meanwhile, at the college level, San Jose State's volleyball team has been at the center of a national media firestorm over the presence of a transgender athlete on the team and a teammate being involved in multiple lawsuits over the issue. San Jose State women's co-captain Brooke Slusser has joined a lawsuit against the NCAA and filed her own lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference and her own school alleging she was deceived about the natural birth sex of her teammate, Blaire Fleming, who is a biological male. The two have continued to play together this season amid the ongoing controversy but have had seven matches on their schedule forfeited. San Jose State will compete in the Mountain West tournament, but a ruling from a Biden-appointed judge after an emergency hearing in Colorado on Thursday could prevent that from happening. A Mountain West spokesperson said it is possible for San Jose State to win the championship if opponents forfeit upcoming tournament games in Las Vegas starting Nov. 27. But federal Judge Kato Crews will deliver a judgment on whether that plan will stand or not, or whether the team and transgender player may even compete.
I'm against biological men playing women's sports. Yet, any athlete regardless of gender at some point should remove themself from their team when other schools refuse to play against them. Although the United States is one of the countries ranked in the top 5 countries of having trans-athletes...this is a global problem and will continue to be a growing problem because there are just not enough trans-athletes to create their own team. As a former rowing athlete, I would have been against my rowing buddies if they had created T-shirts to speak out against another teammate about their gender or race. Instead, they should sue the school district, school, or conference and leave it at that. In fairness, the trans-athletes should do the same if they're being targeted or discriminated against by their teammates. Yeah...it's a complex issue. wrbtrader
Before even getting to this easy we need a moratorium on saying stuff is like Nazis putting yellow stars on Jews...or wearing swastikas. Calling a person Hitler or saying wearing a t shirt is the same as what Hitler did to the Jews is beyond ignorant already. I can agree that asking the athletes to take off the shrit so a teammate is not targeted is the right call, but so is addressing putting a man on a woman's team and acting like there are no fairness issues. People are so afraid to offend we change an entire industry for the one rather than listen to the needs of the many (spock like). It is not discrimination to tell a 16 year old boy or 20 year old man he cannot switch and be on a girls team just like that. I am still waiting for a girls team to be filled with several trans players which is coming soon.
Of course, the biological female athletes are seeking to leave the team after all the abuse they endured this season and the lack of support from SJSU university. SJSU responds to volleyball player mass exodus after trans athlete scandal rocked program 7 players have entered the transfer portal https://www.foxnews.com/sports/sjsu...ter-trans-athlete-controversy-plagues-program
See... leading female boxers actually can win the title when they aren't having the shiat beat out of them by biological males. Angela Carini wins title months after Olympic withdrawal against Imane Khelif, who failed sex eligibility test 'Tonight was my revenge,' she said https://www.foxnews.com/sports/ange...-imane-khelif-who-failed-sex-eligibility-test
School told girls 'transgenders have more rights' as trans runner took away girl's varsity spot, parent says Parents have said the trans athlete is allowed to compete despite missing regular practices https://www.foxnews.com/sports/scho...nner-took-away-girls-varsity-spot-parent-says
Generally, women can play on men's teams/solo pursuits (NCAA football kickers, etc.) but it's incredibly rare for obvious reasons. Women have competed in open shooting events in the Olympics, mixed gender, but now only in specific mixed-team events. It's ridiculous to allow biological-males to compete in women's sports at any level unless the competition itself is open (gender).
My daughter used to clean up in archery, no issue with a man's 55 pound draw. Tall mind. And she used to cut and stack turf as a kid with her grandfather.