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For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend
The Associated Press ^ | August 4, 2024 | BY NOREEN NASIR

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; culturewar; failedgendertest; homosexualagenda; olympics; parisolympics; perverts; womenssports
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1 posted on 08/04/2024 2:08:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Female Athletes Of Color have always been mistaken for the opposite gender?


2 posted on 08/04/2024 2:10:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


3 posted on 08/04/2024 2:13:10 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..)
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4 posted on 08/04/2024 2:14:44 PM PDT by Signalman (I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a stupid ass article.


5 posted on 08/04/2024 2:18:03 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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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...

"Grrrr, back to the drawing board... again." ~ The folks at The Bee."

6 posted on 08/04/2024 2:18:20 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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7 posted on 08/04/2024 2:19:30 PM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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👍


8 posted on 08/04/2024 2:23:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's mone)
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Everyone wants to be a victim.


9 posted on 08/04/2024 2:24:21 PM PDT by coldcash
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OMG!

Now it’s RACIST if you opppose men beating up women?!?!?!

Beam me up, Scotty, I’m done.


10 posted on 08/04/2024 2:25:18 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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Totally totally totally looks like a man 🤣🤣🤣🤣


11 posted on 08/04/2024 2:27:54 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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“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.


12 posted on 08/04/2024 2:29:49 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Only those who hate America are offended by the phrase "Make America Great Again".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The perpetual complainer crowd is at it again.


13 posted on 08/04/2024 2:31:52 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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Muhammad thinks it’s cool for men to beat up women and get rewarded.


14 posted on 08/04/2024 2:33:13 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

High level b.s. in this article. Boo Hoo!


15 posted on 08/04/2024 2:37:58 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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Big Mike rule.


16 posted on 08/04/2024 2:42:35 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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A## HOLE-CIATED DEPRESSED


17 posted on 08/04/2024 2:43:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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XY = male. Follow the science.


18 posted on 08/04/2024 2:49:00 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1997 ... drain the swamp.)
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The Algerian boxer has XY chromosomes

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/imane-khelif-xy-chromosome-dsd-paris-olympics-b2590594.html


19 posted on 08/04/2024 2:50:19 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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This is the first article I have seen that even brought up race. So, I guess it is about race afterall. And I guess my distrust of opinion based media is racist too.
20 posted on 08/04/2024 2:55:00 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
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