I always get up early, but this is the first morning I’ve turned the Olympics on. Channel 9 on live television, the commentators are reporting very excitedly about the events that the Australians athletes are in, and after that everything – except the boxing. The boxing so far, this morning, is being denied.
It is the only reason that I have the television on so early. I’ve found the match that I am wanting to know about on – or at least live updates on the Aljazeera news channel. According to the latest update:
Khelif vs Yang: Round three
Yang has it all to do now and she looks disappointed by the judges scoring in the last round.
Khelif knows a knockout is unlikely as the Chinese fighter doesn't have huge power, and the Algerian beckons her on.
Khelif lands with a great right hand and follows it up with a left hook. Yang is having to look for an opening and she catches Khelif with a big left as she presses forward.
The Algerian has her hands down at her hips, wanting Yang to attack. She shakes her head as Yang misses some shots.
The bell goes and Khelif is delighted, while Yang looks resigned to defeat.
Khelif was just too good for her.
4m ago (21:09 GMT)
Khelif vs Yang: Round two
Khelif comes forward, starting the round aggressively. She looks more willing to let her hands go after that good first round.
Khelif has all the strength advantages that come with an XY chromosome – everything except a penis. That is because of a development disorder in the womb.
Imane Khelif, an Algerian man without a penis, slogging it out against Chinese woman Yan Liu. They are slogging it out for the gold medal.
If the Russians were at this Olympics this match would not be happening, rather there would be two women in the ring.
And it has just been declared gold medal to Imane Khelif.
It is being excited reported across Twitter:
What a woman.
The biological reality is that this is just another lie. As they move us away from what we know intuitively.
All part of undermining our capacity to understand the world according to the evidence.
The preference is now for narrative, as the ultimate deciding factor even when it comes to gender.
But. We are not fishes. We have the capacity to organise to create a kinder and fairer world for our own species. But unlike fishes we can't change sex. Fish gonads contain both male and female tissues, and sex change occurs when one outgrows the other.
This happens, for example, with Humphead wrasses when the dominant terminal male dies; one of the females becomes male and grow to be larger. In contrast, humans and other mammals determine sex via a gene on the male-only Y chromosome.
@Christopher game, if you really were concerned about Marxist world government, you would be interested to note that the only time Khelif's "identity as a woman has been questioned was when the IBA performed an unspecified gender eligibility test shortly after Khelif defeated Russian boxer Azalia Amineva, who was previously undefeated, at the 2023 world championships. At the time, Khelif referred to her disqualification as a “conspiracy.” The suspicious timing of the test, combined with the lack of transparency around the results, should have raised immediate concerns, especially since the IBA is the only source of the allegations against Khelif. The IOC has also long been at odds with the IBA over a series of corruption scandals, accusations of poor governance, and worries about the organization’s president, Umar Kremlev, and his ties to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin—conflicts that led to the IBA being stripped of its authority to regulate Olympic boxing."
Now I understand why people talk of 'Karens'.
"Disorders of sex development (DSDs) are defined as congenital conditions in which chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomic sex is atypical. They occur at a frequency of 1–3% (including hypospadias)."
I wouldn't call that "rare".
The interview with Dr Emma Hilton was enlightening. Males and females have a distinct developmental biological difference. In rare cases, a developmental disorder may lead to confusion in sexual identity, but the biological difference between male and female physicality should not be denied. Particularly in a boxing ring!