Singled out
The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory.
Algerian boxer Khelif, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer amid scrutiny over her eligibility, was specifically mentioned when World Boxing released its new policy last Friday.
And? What’s the problem? He’s not shy, and he beat up a woman, and he cheated. I don’t think he’s an innocent victim here.
On Monday, its president Boris van der Vorst contacted the Algerian Boxing Federation to acknowledge that was wrong.
“I am writing to you all personally to offer a formal and sincere apology for this and acknowledge that her privacy should have been protected,” he wrote in a letter seen by The Associated Press.
Why? The Olympics are not private. Also why “her”? Why not “Khelif’s” if you’re not willing to say “his”?
We have to fight over every inch. It’s so tedious.
The president of World Boxing was wrong to single out Khelif without mentioning the other male boxing cheat, Lin Yu-ting. Mentioning only Khelif minimizes the extent of the cheating and the number of women deprived of opportunities. As the WB president didn’t say, Olympic women’s boxing was a complete shitshow.
Are there any persons with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome who have competed in sports & then had a test that found them to be XY?
IINM such a person is phenotypically female in most ways. Should s/he be considered to be simply an infertile female?