An Algerian “woman” named Imane Khelif caused a stir at the Olympics the other day by beating the bejezus out of an Italian woman named Angela Carini. Both are boxers, but only one of them is truly a female.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Algerian daily L’Expression:
She assures Algeria a medal at the Paris Olympic Games
Imane Khelif responds in the ring!
At the end of her fight, Imane Khelif burst into tears, a reaction shared by the 44 million Algerians who have followed her path with passion and emotion.
Imane Khelif hits hard. She has just made history in the national sport by winning a brilliant victory in a unanimous decision at the Paris Olympic Games. The boxer left no room for chance, defeating her opponent with faultless mastery and determination. This triumph gives Algeria its first medal in this prestigious competition. By ensuring at least a bronze medal, Khelif gives the country its first prize in women’s boxing. Hopes now turn to gold, an ambition totally within the reach of this exceptional athlete. This victory is not only a sporting feat, but also a personal revenge for Khelif. In recent days, she has been the target of an intense smear campaign, a test that could have destabilized any athlete. However, Khelif responded in the best possible way, in the ring, showing exceptional resilience and strength. At the end of her fight, Imane Khelif broke into tears, a reaction shared by the 44 million Algerians who have followed her path with passion and emotion. This medal is a deserved victory that goes beyond the sporting framework, embodying the hope and pride of an entire nation.
This case is fascinating from a psychopathological viewpoint. How does a nation of Muslims handle the complexity and contradictions of having to get a man into a women’s competition to win anything for the first time in history? And on top of that a man, who by all that is holy to the society he grew up in, fails in the most embarrassing aspect of morality, sexual deviation dragged before the public eye?
I distance myself from expressing any opinion on this person’s life experience, of which I know nothing. This was an attempt at framing it in the known Islamic mindset. The West, of course, is celebrating this. I would be genuinely interested in hearing what the local press, the people in the streets and the imams in their mosques in Algeria are saying. If anyone has access to such sources.
99% Sunni Islam…
I can’t see how he would dare return after “coming out” like this.
That’s exactly the point. I don’t think he wants to return home, or ever intended to, if his transgenderism was the reason to leave. Whether he discovered it only after arriving in the West, I don’t know. Whether it is genuine or opportunism, I don’t know either. But now he did something to make his country proud, at least in the eyes of the West (the public eye that is, never mind us recalcitrants.) How does Algeria handle this balancing act?
Islam at its best.
The current Olympics is the craziest and the filthiest in the history of the Olympic Movement.
Just discovered this article, claiming that the story is not quite so cut-and-dried. Rare cases of people born as hermaphrodites do exist, and if the reports are true, this is one. The article is in German and I don’t have time to translate it right away, hope I can do it tonight.
https://ansage.org/imane-khelif-und-der-olympische-trans-skandal-es-ist-doch-komplizierter-als-gedacht/
The translation:
Imane Khelif and the Olympic trans scandal: it’s more complicated than we thought
by Theo-Paul Löwengrub
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August 03, 2024
Imane Khelif (r.) before the “fight” the day before yesterday: It can’t go on like this (Photo:Imago)
The scandal surrounding the boxing match between the Italian Angela Carini and the Algerian Imane Khelif at the Olympic Games on Thursday continues to make waves around the world. The obviously physically inferior Carini stopped the fight after 46 seconds to, as she said, “protect my life”. From the outset, there was bitter criticism of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing Khelif to compete at all, as she had been excluded from the World Championships last year by the boxing association IBA after a gender test revealed that Khelif had both an X and a Y chromosome, which is actually only common in men.
In times of the omnipresent woke trans craze, in which – especially in the West – clearly biological men who have declared themselves to be women by a mere speech act are allowed to participate in women’s competitions, Khelif herself also became the target of criticism and even became a target of hatred in some cases. It was claimed that she was a man who unscrupulously exploited her physical superiority and beat up women just to live out her fetish, like so many supposed “trans-persons”. In fact, according to background information that only became public after the Paris scandal, Khelif appears to be one of those extremely rare cases of real “intersexuality” (formerly also commonly referred to as “hermaphroditic” or “hermaphrodite”, although this is not really accurate).
Painful disorder instead of shrill colorfulness under the rainbow?
She was born a woman, but with male physical characteristics and rudimentary sexual characteristics. This is an extremely painful situation for her and her family, especially as gender changes are not permitted in her home country of Algeria. If this is true, the boxer would be one of the “real” examples of what is now celebrated as a “non-binary” and pseudo-normalized disorder that existed even before the triumph of delusional trans ideology – and these people have real grief with their identity, which for them does not mean queer self-stylization or flashy “colourfulness” in a rainbow society where everyone is allowed to be anything – but rather a doom and stigma.
This would make Khelif the exact opposite of figures such as “Georgine” Kellermann, “Tessa” Ganserer or even the “swimmer” Lia Thomas, who were all previously real physical men before they then decided – for whatever reason – in an act of flimsy freedom of choice about the alleged “social construct of sexuality” to be counterfactually a “woman” from then on – despite having a penis, testicles and (in Ganserer’s case even civil status) masculinity. The tragedy lies in the fact that the real, very rare cases of transsexuality and indeterminate gender assignment are nowadays simply ideologized – and then in the end something like an unfair boxing match comes out, where a physically male athlete can beat up a female competitor and receive a medal for it.
Part of a minority with a gender anomaly
If the facts put forward to exonerate Khelif are true, and if she really was always a girl or a woman on whom nature has imposed a male physique in a cruel prank through a non-uniform chromosome pattern and hormonal whims, then she would be what is subsumed under the umbrella term “diverse” in Germany – but she still does not embody a separate, “third” gender. Reproductive biologists make it clear that there are only two sexes, although there can be manifestations of characteristics of the other sex in representatives of both sexes. British doctor Brian Sutterer explained with regard to the Khelif case: “It’s a very complicated issue. As a rule, women have two X chromosomes, men one X and one Y chromosome. But there is no black and white. When the body is put together, it can ‘happen’ from time to time that women also have an X and Y chromosome. In the same way, men can also have two X chromosomes. These ‘unusual’ chromosomes are just not as pronounced.” This also seems to be the background to Khelif’s situation. It is therefore not really possible to speak of a “transgender boxer”. She belongs to the tiny minority of people who have this gender anomaly.
As Khelif herself refuses to put an end to the speculation by making a clear statement, it must currently be assumed that she suffers from a condition that is technically described as “Differences of Sex Development” (DSD). This would explain the presence of XY chromosomes and her higher testosterone levels despite a female XX gender identity. Once again, the bitter thing is that it is precisely these people who deserve to be treated with the greatest sensitivity, but who are caught between the wheels of those who oppose this perversion and those who pursue it and then celebrate the whole thing as one big travesty and mendacious game of alleged “self-determination” as a result of the trans craze. The very minorities that Wokeism claims to want to help are the very ones who are being short-changed by its excesses and are unfairly made to share the blame for this by those who feel beaten down and patronized by the trans agenda.
Unsuitable as a testimonial of “diversity”
The Khelif case thus proves two things: firstly, that members of such minorities are cases for doctors and psychologists, but are in no way suitable as testimonials of a claimed “diversity” and figureheads of left-wing identity politicians and maladjusted activists. And secondly, that it always leads to injustice if the anomalies are ignored and denied – which in extreme cases then leads to a female person being defeated in unfair competitions by a “female-read” person with male attributes. Therefore, as subjectively annoying as this would have been for Khelif, she should never have been allowed to compete in the Olympics. The schizophrenia of trans ideologues and the LBGTQIA+ lobby, on the one hand insisting on terms such as “diverse” in order to demonstrate the alleged complete meaninglessness of conventional gender assignments, but on the other hand militantly demanding that anyone can declare themselves a man or a woman at will by speech act, is already causing enough confusion.
An insider and expert on the women’s boxing scene told Ansage! that Khelif is not a transgender woman and that she undoubtedly has a hard enough time with her complex identity due to her origins in a Muslim country. In fact, she herself has spoken about how much family and cultural resistance she had to overcome in order to establish herself as a woman in an Islamic society and then in boxing of all things. Photographs in which she appeared fashionably styled as a male model are supposed to show a form of disguise in order not to stand out as a woman with her clearly masculine features and visual characteristics; however, this would again raise the question of why she then seeks the big stage of boxing in order to place herself at the center of the attention and expected outrage of all those who have had enough of the unbearably patronizing trans-queer appropriation of top-class sport. Especially as Khelif’s high testosterone levels give her a massive physical advantage over her opponents – which is tantamount to de facto doping, which is then tolerated in her case, but which causes the public’s emotions to boil over all the more.
The way out: a separate category
In fact, scientific studies have shown that the average strength of men who have gone through male puberty is 162 percent higher than that of women. Bone density, muscular apparatus and connective tissue are different from men. Before “trans women” or real women with these characteristics are actually allowed to compete against biologically distinct women, it would always be better (if only out of consideration for the health of their opponents!) to introduce a separate category for people like Khelif, where these trans people meet on an equal footing, instead of favoring them in a grotesque distortion of competition and thus depriving women like the inferior Italian Carini of the fruits of hard training and lifelong work. But then again, the number of real intersexuals who want to get involved in professional sport is likely to be so small that in the end there would probably not be enough participants for such special competitions. In the worst case scenario, those affected would be out of luck and would not be admitted at all.
In any case, it is clear that the current situation is untenable. Despite all the differentiating understanding that may be appropriate in Khelif’s case, things cannot go on like this. We must draw the conclusion that athletes with a physical disposition like Khelif (which also applies to other transathletes at this Olympics, especially in judo) cannot take part in the Olympic Games – just as wheelchair users are not allowed to take part in hurdles, for example, but have to compete in a separate Paralympic discipline. The problem is not an isolated case: yesterday in Paris, the Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting, who – like Khelif – was excluded from the World Boxing Championships last year, “won” in three rounds against the Uzbek Sitora Turdibekova. The latter also refused to give the “winner” the usual handshake and left the ring in tears, which were presumably due to both pain and frustration at this humiliation. Khelif’s next opponent this Saturday will be the Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori. “I’m not afraid. If she or he is a man, my victory will only be greater,” she said bravely in the run-up to the match.
Caricaturing the sport and unfairness must end
However, the intolerable situation is increasingly becoming a political issue: the Hungarian Boxing Federation has announced that it will send an official letter to the Hungarian and International Olympic Committees in which it will “express our outrage” and call on the IOC to review its decision “to include an athlete in the IOC competition system who was previously excluded from the World Championships because an XY chromosome was detected during the tests”. IOC President Thomas Bach has since spoken to Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, who is also upset about the Carini tragedy. According to Bach, it was agreed “that we want to stay in contact and clarify and improve the scientific background in order to make the situation easier to understand”. At the IOC and other federations, the fear of being attacked by the omnipresent and billion-dollar trans lobby is apparently greater than the sense of responsibility towards real women, who we keep subjecting to ever new ordeals and a caricature of sport than finally put an end to this farce.
Incidentally, Erik Schinegger from Austria is a historical precedent that could be used as a reference. Firmly convinced that he was born a woman, he won the women’s downhill world championship title in 1966 as Erika. It was only two years later, before the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble, when a medical sex test was required for the first time, that it was recognized that Schinegger had male chromosomes; his sex had previously been classified as “female” due to his genitals growing inwards. After an operation, he changed his name to Erik and was allowed to keep his 1966 title, but the runner-up Marielle Goitschel was also retroactively awarded a gold medal. This could perhaps be a way out of this completely unnecessary dilemma that the woke mania has now imposed on the sporting world.