adopting the worldview of "if you have literally any inherent advantage over the average competitor you should be disqualified because it's just not fair" with regards to a friendly entertainment-first competition that is fundamentally about showing the peak of human athletics. because of woke pronouns

chuds will literally say that this description with a straight face is exactly what communism represents and then throw a tantrum the second someone who is not a cishet WASP kicks their shit in. what happened to your little haplogroups and calipers big dawg you're supposed to be taking this shit on the chin oh wait it's literally just racial main character syndrome cool cool

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Italian AFAB boxer fought against Algerian AFAB (who looks pretty masc, whatever that means) boxer in the olympics, but the Algerian was significantly stronger, not to mention heavier than the Italian, so after 2 punches she tapped out.

    The picture is of the Italian fighter crying because they were, paraphrasing, 'the strongest punches i've felt in my life'. Chuds and transphobes everywhere are using this as an opportunity to cry about the swarthy hordes of men dressing up as women to beat up their white women, despite the fact that the famously transphobic olympic committee gave the greenlight for the Algerian athlete to compete, after a bunch of exams they do for all athletes came out normal.

    All in all, a manufactured outrage that combines chuds' favorite thing: racism and transphobia, along with 'defend muh white women'

    • JayTreeman [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      I read the Wikipedia article yesterday, so I'm obviously an expert... There's been no proof that she's intersex. She's also lost to women before. 9 times.

    • Pili [any, any]
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      3 months ago

      This all sounds super weird and I don't know what to make of it.

      Even when two cis people are competing, trans people are still catching strays.

      Now what?

      bear-despair

      Thank you for the explanation.

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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      3 months ago

      who looks pretty masc, afaik because of being intersex

      So a few posters have mentioned she's not intersex but I want to elaborate a little on that

      The only "proof" or claim that she's intersex comes from an official of the IBA who, in a random Telegram post, said she had XY chromosomes. She was disqualified from an IBA event along with a couple other boxers due to failing some sort of hormonal test before the match, but the IBA has so far refused to disclose what the test even tested for let alone what the results actually were, so there's no corroborating what the official said on Telegram and therefore makes it entirely unreliable

      Imane Khelif has boxed in the Olympics before and has never shown signs of being intersex or having any elevated levels of T. It literally hasn't been an issue until this Italian boxer conceded and the chuds went wild with it

      • psivchaz@reddthat.com
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        3 months ago

        Is the Italian boxer actively fanning the flames? The only things I saw were basically that she was upset about losing, but it seemed like all the hatred was coming from conservative talking heads, not from her.

        • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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          3 months ago

          I'll be entirely honest, I don't know. The waters are muddy at the moment and I didn't see that particular match

          To my understanding the Italian boxer left the field pretty steamed and refused to even acknowledge her opponent or shake hands, which could be frustration on her part or could be a legitimate snub, it's impossible to know, and the media shoving cameras and microphones into her face seconds later didn't help either

          It is admittedly poor wording on my part, and I'll fix that