Preparing to return
Some men refuse to take no for an answer.
Imane Khelif is preparing to return to competitive women’s boxing in Eindhoven next month, threatening another major international controversy in a sport still reeling from the Algerian’s gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
Promoting this year’s Eindhoven Box Cup, Dutch organisers have released a poster declaring: “Proud that Imane Khelif is there again to defend her title.”
Don’t be. Enabling a man to cheat his way into a women’s match is not something to be proud of. And it’s his title he’s “defending” aka stealing.
While Khelif has made dramatic legal threats against Elon Musk and JK Rowling, accusing them of “cyberbullying” for their comments on the gender row, the welterweight has still not agreed to a cheek swab test that could resolve the issue beyond doubt.
Huh. You’d think he’d jump at the chance to do a cheek swab test. Unless, of course, he knows he would flunk it.
What’s crazy is that Imane Khelif has already had TWO cheek swab tests done, both overseen by the international Court of Arbitration for Sport — the sine qua non of global adjudication in matters of athletic integrity. Sex never, ever, ever changes, therefore sex test results never, ever, ever change. If you tested male once, you’re male forever, barring a freakishly rare false positive. If you’re tested male twice, it’s beyond the faintest shadow of a doubt — you’re male. We are so completely done here.
It’s insane that people in the media are still acting like this isn’t an absolutely settled matter.
If it’s not too indulgent to cite my own work, I wrote a piece last year about just how completely settled the matter is, and how deranged and irresponsible the media has been in reporting on it:
https://artymorty.substack.com/p/a-media-meltdown-of-olympic-proportions
You get to cite your own work here any time.
Artymorty: From your linked piece:
One way around this problem would be a compromise: XYs can compete in XX sporting events, provided that they have had a total amputation well beforehand of everything hanging off their nether regions. (NB: ‘well beforehand’ means ‘at least on the previous day.’)
Worth a try, surely.
How would that be a way around the problem?