Posted on 08/04/2024 2:08:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS (AP) — Overcome with emotion, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif left the ring in tears after a resounding victory this weekend. Khelif has faced days of hateful comments and false accusations about her gender following her first fight against an Italian opponent who quit seconds into their bout.
“It’s because she’s African, because she’s Algerian,” 38-year-old Algerian fan Adel Mohammed said Saturday, when Khelif clinched an Olympic medal. “These comments are coming from white people … it’s a kind of racism.”
Female athletes of color have historically faced disproportionate scrutiny and discrimination when it comes to sex testing and false accusations that they are male or transgender, historians and anthropologists say. Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting, who won her bout Sunday after similar abuse and questions about her gender, are the latest examples of women of color who have found themselves caught in the contentious debate around gender regulations and perceptions in sports.
More women from the Global South or developing countries are affected by sex testing in sports, said Payoshni Mitra, director of the Center for Sport and Human Rights.
“Sport is very Eurocentric — the approach is not necessarily global,” Mitra said. “We need to accept women in all their diversity. And we are not seeing that at this point.”
Mitra and other advocates and anthropologists note that international sporting federations don’t tend to promote an understanding of diversity in sex and gender identity and that gender tests have often targeted female athletes of color who don’t conform to typically Western, white ideals of femininity.
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Female Athletes Of Color have always been mistaken for the opposite gender?
Has nothing to do with color. Has everything to do with them coming from poor countries where there is very little childhood medical screening and very few treatment options if a sexual development problem is suspected.
I suppose the boxer from Taiwan would be an exception, but might be from a poor family if not a poor country.
What a stupid ass article.
"Grrrr, back to the drawing board... again." ~ The folks at The Bee."
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Everyone wants to be a victim.
OMG!
Now it’s RACIST if you opppose men beating up women?!?!?!
Beam me up, Scotty, I’m done.
Totally totally totally looks like a man 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Female athletes of color have historically faced disproportionate scrutiny and discrimination when it comes to sex testing and false accusations that they are male or transgender,”
F.U. Ass. press.
The perpetual complainer crowd is at it again.
Muhammad thinks it’s cool for men to beat up women and get rewarded.
High level b.s. in this article. Boo Hoo!
Big Mike rule.
A## HOLE-CIATED DEPRESSED
XY = male. Follow the science.
The Algerian boxer has XY chromosomes
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