Posted on 08/04/2024 4:07:51 PM PDT by Libloather
The Boston Globe has apologized for its headline that called Algerian Imane Khelif a “transgender boxer.”
The heavily criticized headline ran in both the print edition of the paper last week and on its mobile edition with a story written by the Associated Press’ Greg Beacham.
“Transgender boxer advances,” it read.
However, on Saturday the Globe issued a statement in which it apologized for the inaccurate nature of the headline.
“A significant error was made in a headline on a story in Friday’s print sports section about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif incorrectly describing her as transgender. She is not. Additionally, our initial correction of this error neglected to note that she was born female.
“We recognize the magnitude of this mistake and have corrected it in the epaper, the electronic version of the printed Globe. The editing lapse is regretful and unacceptable and we apologize to Khelif, to Associated Press writer Greg Beacham, and to you, our readers,” the statement from the Boston Globe read.
The Associated Press story did not refer to Khelif as transgender and the publication originally titled the article, “Algeria boxer Imane Khelif wins first Olympic fight when opponent Angela Carini quits.”
Beacham himself responded to criticism over the situation in a post on X over the weekend, explaining that he did not write the headline.
“That’s not my headline. That word isn’t in my story,” Beacham said. “My stories are syndicated worldwide, and customers are allowed to write their own headlines.”
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and no problem passing drug tests ?
btw, betting both boxers to win on one site gets to around -315. now just add in one more sure thing bet. Djokovic used to be close to sure thing but not anymore. He did win the Gold by beating Alcarez .
One of the boxers might take a dive because of controversy but I doubt it unless someone pays them off.
Tennis is fraught with pay offs.
Well, I’m sure you’re not the only one who is confused.
I have trouble believing a woman is pretending to be a woman...
He was not "born female." He was genetically born male with XY chromosomes, but with a birth defect.
-PJ
media running scared because Algerian dad showed a birth certificate from 2018 that says female.
Dad knows the truth at this point. So does the Algerian.
I looked up my genetics on the specific gene listed in some medical tweets by Drs.
I have a lot of variations but one semi flagged (not red hot. Orange hot) When I looked up that SNP it raised risk for Ovarian cancer. I had a second degree relative die from it. I had a radical hysterectomy because I had a mass and wacky blood test results but it had not developed to ovarian cancer yet.
There are other genes for me that pop for Ovarian cancer but thought it was interesting that this was a flag. The SNP also popped for PCOS.
any female who has their gene test might want to look at SRD5A2 if ovarian/breast cancer runs in your family.
now that whole genome genetic testing is much more accessible I really recommend doing it. If I hadn’t done it I would have no idea I have multipllP450 issues because no Doctor ever figured it out.
But there it is RED FLAGGED in my genetics. I have no functioning enzyme in one of them thus greatly creating issues with some medicine. I now have to look at how each medicine that I am prescribed is metabolized.....
Genetics is such a wild and interesting area of medicine. I have a many removed relative..at least by 8 that has lost children to a Finnish kidney disease. I had no idea I had any Finnish blood. But yep, I am carrier still resonating down many many many generations .....Same with Thalassemia and so on.
Good idea to know what you pass on to your kids.
How about a DNA test for him?
https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1721896581396607132
Listen to Caster.
“My testicles don’t make me less of a woman” - Caster Semenya
Of course, this outlandish statement went totally unchallenged this morning🤡
Semenya is not a woman with high testosterone levels. He is a male with normal testosterone levels.
And to Caster’s point. If he was raised a female and thought he was female I can understand the traumatic effect all of this had on him and he might still socialize as a female.
But the dude is a MAN and should not be playing in women’s sports.
In fact, he was a man from birth, he has a congenital genital malformation known as ambiguous genitalia and the sex can only be defined after blood and DNA tests.
He’s a man…he has xy chromosomes…all the rest is just bull$hit propaganda.
That’s a man, Baby! 😏
Possibility: baby is XY has 5-alpha reductase deficiency (5-ARD), doesn’t convert testosterone into dihydrotestosterone.
Development of sexual characteristicd is affected. Perhaps baby has no external testes, and external genitalia appear more female than male. Baby is declared a girl, raised as a girl.
Then at puberty, testes produce a huge surge of testosterone. The body masculinizes, muscle, bone,face, perhaps genitalia.
The child was raised as a girl in all good faith, likely thinks of herself as a girl, but her body grows into that of a man. Not her fault, but should s/he compete against women?
There is a population in the Dominican Republic that has a high number of people affected by 5-ARD, called guevedoces, “penis at twelve.” It that culture, the child is most likely to shift to a male identity.
All this nonsense detracts from the fact that they are not female, in the common sense of the term. It’s a tragedy and it’s too damn bad but if they went through puberty as boys then they should not be allowed to compete as females. Or simply repeal Title 9 (it’s virtually dead anywho…)
I’ve seen pictures of Khelif as a child and he looked and was dressed as a girl. So this not some transgender that decided to fight women as a male later in life to gain an advantage. He really was raised female and it’s an effed up situation...clearly he is genetically a male.
If he has an XY chromosome, he was born a male — but misidentified by the doctor at birth to be a female — and that was put on the birth certificate, and that is what everybody went by — including the passport and drivers license, and other official documents.
However, genetic testing revealed that the individual had an XY chromosome which is the criterium used in distinguishing male competitors in sport from female competitors. Although it seems unfair for this individual to be reveal this way, it is unfair to all the other women competitors to compete against a male in a contest designated for women (female). He can be allowed to compete in the male division. This is just one of those instances that should be clearly defined by genetic testing — and not by the confusion of the Olympic officials about sex and gender — which unfortunately, many of these physical education types are.
There are many of other things these people can do — besides any particular athletic competition divided by sex determinations — just not this one thing clearly defined. But you know, many of these media types are also sexually confused.
What a coincidence! So was every other male on this board!
Seriously: Would you care to rephrase that?
Regards,
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