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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Just in case being called transphobic doesn’t bother you, you’re also a racist. Right?
Because nobody ever questioned the gender of lily white “female” Soviet bloc Olympic competitors? Of course, the average reader probably wasn’t even born then, so knows nothing of those controversies.
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this has been going on for decades..there is a high jumper who claimed he was forced to live as a woman for the Nazis but others dispute it saying she was born with a genetic problem.
there was also a runner that had issues way back when.
[this has been going on for decades..there is a high jumper who claimed he was forced to live as a woman for the Nazis but others dispute it saying she was born with a genetic problem.
there was also a runner that had issues way back when.]
i love this graphic.
I have a very rare disorder that can be seen in Skulls dug up in Argentina from holocene era but I think about 11000 years ago. Yet, it wasn’t discovered by modern medicine until the 1930s even though a doctor in 1652 described it. And even today , I keep hearing over and over “I’ve never heard of it. Let me look it up”.
This mess with the biology of male boxers is going to have to go through social wokedom as all try not to inflame the sensitive.
It’s the reverse. Tr* nies, inters$x et al. are more likely to advance if they are POC, because they can play the race card.
XY chromosome - male
Anyone who believes otherwise is mentally ill.
The AP never stops; always about race.
Good point.
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