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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🚨Mohamed Chaoua (Imane Khelif’s coach) announces that they will FILE a COMPLAINT against the IBA, which he describes as a “mafia”. #ImaneKhelif
“race” is injected into everything these days for sympathy
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Wish I could find my Muslim friend from Algeria and ask him about that one
I’ll guess that even he is disgusted
Lies, all lies.
Girls don’t need crotch protectors like this. This is BEYOND ludicrous.
Play that racist nonsense on the WNBA - where whitey ain’t allowed to play.
Who knew that Warsaw Pact women were “ of color” back in the day when they were getting scrutinized.
maybe women boxers can tell us exactly what this guy is adjusting
https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1819362202127679740
if you havent seen this.a guy’s package cost him a medal
Check the chromosomes. Chromosome deniers.
Always victims never perpetrators
Good catch.
Another good catch.
Supposedly the boxer has XY chromosomes and if so the boxer is a male pretending to be a woman.
End of story.
Who are you going to believe, the IOC or your lying eyes?
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