Well this has put the cat among the pigeons.

Very interesting the international boxing association’s statement. The IOC have been told repeatedly this is unsafe. They just don’t care. pic.twitter.com/L3NwMezbAe

— Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) July 31, 2024

Statement made by the International Boxing Association regarding Athletes Disqualifications in World Boxing Championships 2023

As stated, the International Boxing Association (IBA) feels it appropriate at this prevalent time, to address recent media statements regarding those athletes Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif, particularly regarding their participation in the Paris Olympic Games 2024.

We wish to make the following points in these regards:

On 24 March 2023, IBA disqualified athletes Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif from the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships New Delhi

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Remember the swing voters.

Of course we all live in our own little bubbles these days, and despair can distort the perspective of anyone including me. Still, from where I stand, the general tone of the conversation still sounds too much like 2016, when so many liberals and lefties were talking and acting as if Trump’s followers were supporting him by mistake, because they just didn’t know how awful he truly was, and would start abandoning him in droves as soon as they realized their mistake, hence the many confident predictions that his base would turn against him whenever he said or did something outrageous (i.e. whenever he said or did … Read the rest

Eli Stokols at Politico on the other hand thinks Trump’s game of Tease the Black Journalists blew up in his face.

“She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said, prompting audible gasps and murmurs, according to reporters in the room. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago until she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”

Trump continued to make the same point about Harris’ ancestry even as one of the moderators, ABC News’ Rachel Scott, interjected that Harris attended an historically Black college and has always identified as Black.

“She was Indian all the way and then all of the sudden

The hangout with Black journalists went as expected: Trump being as rude and disgusting as possible for points or attention or both. He wins even if he loses, because he gets his jollies being rude and disgusting.

Trump falsely asserted during an event with Black journalists that Harris was “Indian all the way” and suddenly “became a Black person.” He also gave credence to those suggesting Harris doesn’t deserve to be vice president by saying she “could be” in the job because of a push for diversity, equity and inclusion. And he lambasted one of the events’ Black moderators as “very rude,” turning the event into a spectacle that could refocus attention on his own 2024 White House campaign.

I’ve never understood why boxing is a sport in the first place. I still don’t.

Semenya was not a physical danger to other competitors.

The entire point of boxing is to cause a (hopefully temporary and mild) brain injury.

— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) July 31, 2024

Even a temporary and mild brain injury is a brain injury, and brain injuries are bad. Really bad. It’s not like repeatedly getting a bruise to the shoulder. Brains are vital to human functioning and they are easily damaged and the damage doesn’t just go away. That’s why boxers end up with brain damage – it’s cumulative.

That’s why I’ve never understood why we consider it a sport and entertainment.

That of course goes … Read the rest

Grotesque.

Here are both @jacquelinmagnay’s questions to @iocmedia about women’s boxing and male DSD testosterone advantage to the IOC’s Mark Adams.
Worth noting: his complete indifference – even irritation- when asked questions about fairness and safety in women’s boxing: pic.twitter.com/NcCaxhNcOq

— teresa smith (@treesey) July 31, 2024

“They are women on their passports,” he says twice, irritably.

What does that mean?

People could “be” anything at all on their passports if the rules of passports allowed it. They could be ants, trees, nations, planets – because passports are just human artefacts, which humans can change at will. If a man’s fist smashes a woman’s face it really doesn’t matter what his passport says.

They are women on their passports, … Read the rest

News!

Dr Laura Favaro:

Dear all,

I have excellent news: City, University of London and I have settled my Employment Tribunal claim and I hope soon to be regaining access to the rest of my research data (survey). I am extremely pleased with the resolution that we have reached.

This outcome was made possible by the generosity of people all around the world. It is only because of your donations that I have been able to pursue this claim with legal representation. I am also sincerely grateful for your messages of support and encouragement throughout these testing times.

I am pleased to confirm that there are remaining funds in my account. These will be allocated to other similar cases on

Now listen here. Enough of all this drag queen nonsense, what you need to do is put men who pretend to be women front and center instead.

“Stop flooding every single stage with drag queens, and put speakers with meaning and depth, especially trans and non-binary people, on instead.”

Like this guy for instance. This guy with the long dangly blonde curls, the long dangly earrings, the priddy necklace, the rings on every finger, the long dress with the plunging neckline, the bracelets – [pause for breath] – flood every stage with guys like him instead of drag queens. There’s your meaning and depth right there!… Read the rest

Could be interesting.

Donald Trump is set to field reporters’ questions at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday, as he re-tools his presidential campaign to combat his likely rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

It’s hard to imagine he will come out of that looking good.

Trump will be speaking with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and politics reporter Kadia Goba of Semafor. It will be livestreamed at 1 p.m. ET on the group’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

The event gives Trump, who won just 12% of Black voters in his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, an opportunity to directly appeal to voters of

Originally a comment by Sastra on Their primary duty is to ensure that somebody does not die.

A woman athlete who walks out has possibly just lost everything she’s worked for her whole life— her match, her eligibility, her standing, her reputation, and at least some of her friends. A group of women walking out simultaneously might manage to make a majority, but there will always be true believers and upcomers to step into their places on the team. Remember that the moral melodrama being trumpeted high and low is that transwomen are in the same position black athletes once were. You boycott, you take on the role of someone skipping class so they don’t have to sit next … Read the rest

Hey no biggy, just slashing some bitch who said no.

An EastEnders actor who slashed a woman with a knife after she turned down his sexual advances has been spared jail.

Oh well thank fuck for that. How dare she say no to his sexual advances?

Harry Rafferty, 34, flew into a “rage” and threatened to kill the woman during a confrontation at a friend’s home in Camden. He threw punches and slashed the woman across the stomach, chest and both sides of her face with a knife.

Which is a very natural and forgivable thing to do.

At Wood Green crown court, Judge David Aaronberg KC handed Rafferty a two-year jail sentence and agreed to suspend it, in

NBC News is pretending Khelif and Lin are actually women, not men pretending to be women.

Two boxers who were disqualified from competing with women at a global event last year have been permitted to fight in the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee confirmed.

Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Taiwan failed to meet gender eligibility tests at the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year, prompting their disqualifications. But they have been cleared to compete in the women’s 66-kilogram and women’s 57-kilogram matches in Paris this week, the IOC confirmed in an email Tuesday.

…

“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing

Hmmm, will that include men who pretend to be women invading women’s boxing?

The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP), in collaboration with the IOC, announces the Fair Play Award to honour extraordinary acts of sporting spirit during the #OlympicGames #Paris2024 https://t.co/7oj1FMISRZ pic.twitter.com/DV8gsVjybk

— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) July 29, 2024

… Read the rest

One violent man stopped.

Anjem Choudary, the leader of the banned terror group al-Muhajiroun, has been jailed for life and may never leave prison alive. He was found guilty of directing the group and encouraging support for it through online meetings

The sentence means that Choudary cannot seek to leave jail on licence until he is more than 85 years old. Choudary appeared shocked and rocked on his feet in the dock as he was given a minimum term of 28 years at Woolwich Crown Court.

Shocked was he? How does he think his victims felt?

Mr Justice Wall said Choudary’s group was a radical organisation that intended to spread sharia law, by violent means, to as much of

The Telegraph’s chief sports writer Oliver Brown points out that someone could get killed.

Boxing, in case you have not already noticed, is based on trying to knock someone out as the quickest route to victory. It is the sporting realm where sexual dimorphism is most pronounced, since men are biologically favoured with not just wider shoulders and longer reach than women, but 90 per cent increased bicep strength and 162 per cent greater puncher power.

To spell this out, this means that a man’s average punch has over 2.6 times the force of one delivered by a woman. It is a stark illustration of the responsibility that boxing’s authorities must carry when they match fighters up. Quite simply,

When unions go mad:

NEW on the Commons blog: ‘Trade Unions Oppose the Cass Report’.

We’re so proud to have passed this motion at our NEC, which then passed at LGBT TUC. It’s now the business of all trade unions to oppose Cass:https://t.co/jnYhPwPqyf

— UCU Commons #ucuRISING (@UCUCommons) July 29, 2024

Why is it the business of all trade unions to oppose the Cass Report?

Why would unions be in the business of disrupting puberties and handing adolescents over to gender quacks to have their lives ruined? Why is submission to trans ideology a requirement for all trade unions? Why is it a requirement for any trade union? … Read the rest

Seriously though…what kind of lunatic goes to a hotel and lies around near the pool to take photos of his legs and post them on Twitter?????

Jonathan’s on holiday… thoughts and prayers to his fellow hotel guests, imagine nipping down to the pool and finding Jon’s in the same hotel and will be spending 90% of his time photographing his crotch by the pool? pic.twitter.com/7YNekQwQCg

— Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS (@Sorelle_Arduino) July 29, 2024

Who does that?? And why???… Read the rest

Guardian lede omits the crucial point of the very story it’s reporting on:

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that two boxers who were disqualified from last year’s world championships for failing gender eligibility tests will be allowed to fight in Paris.

Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) both start their Olympic campaigns this week, with Khelif meeting the Italian Angela Carini in the 66kg category and Yu-ting expected to face an unnamed opponent in the 55kg category on Friday.

Just look at the Graun carefully not saying that these are men who will be allowed to beat up women in Paris. If you’re familiar with the pattern then the mention of Angela Carini tells … Read the rest

Well well. Is the ship starting to turn at last?

And today, they capitulated at tribunal, admitting liability for harassment and discrimination. Lizzy has won! Book World – there is a lesson in here, if you would only listen to it. Well done, Lizzy and her legal team!

It seems Cambridgeshire County Council just said “It’s a fair cop, guvnor” and that was the end of that.

Reporter's note: This means the respondents have admitted discrimination so there will be no evidence from either party.

The barristers will now prepare recommendations to be considered by the Judge at noon.

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) July 29, 2024

Boom. … Read the rest

Guido Fawkes tells us:

Jolyon Maugham and his Good Law Project have faced yet another defeat. Earlier this year, Jolyon’s brigade attempted to overturn former Health Secretary Victoria Atkins’ ban on puberty blockers, raising a whopping £60,000 from gullible donors to fight their case. The High Court has now upheld the ban, citing a study that identified “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” of puberty blockers. Another one bites the dust…

The Good Law Project took to X to bemoan their loss, promising they are “consulting on next steps.” This marks the second case Jolyon has managed to lose in less than a week. When will credulous donors wake up and realise that when it comes to campaigns, Jolyon