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Imane Khelif has beaten Angela Carina the 25 year old from Naples in the first round of the 66kg boxing category in Paris. Match abandoned in Round One.
The IOC are sanctioning male violence against women as sport.
With this win another woman will now be put at risk.
On Thursday 1st August Italy’s Angela Carini, a 25 year old from Naples, will step into the ring to face a male in the Olympic Boxing Arena.
This is not safe and I hope the Italian Olympic team will protest.
Let’s get this hashtag trending
#IStandWithAngelaCarini
This is
@Angelacarini98
On Thursday 1st August she will face Imane Khelif in the boxing ring, Khelif was previously suspended from women’s boxing for failing a gender test
@ItaliaTeam_it
I hope you will be protesting
#IStandWithAngelaCarini
Tonight Esra Yildiz Kahraman made an "X" symbol in defiance of IoC gaging orders after being beaten by male boxer Lin Yu Ting.
On the track Lin Yusei makes an “X” symbol with her arms and earlier in the boxing ring Svetlana Staneva also made an “x” symbol.
These brave women
With the Paris Olympics fast approaching we have reviewed the eligibility policies for women’s events for each of the Olympic sports.
It is a depressing read. We could not identify a single sport where participation is limited to female sex at birth.
In Zambia’s Olympic Football match against Australia on Monday all 5 of Zambia’s goals were scored by Barbra Banda and Racheal Kundananji.
Both players were ruled ineligible to compete for Zambia in the African Nations Cup and the World Cup-qualifying tournament for failing
Are we ready to discuss the elephant in the room? I understand that it’s a sensitive subject but it’s worthy of both addressing and questioning. I’ve received a number of messages and tweets to this effect so let’s look at the facts before us.
In 2022, Zambia women’s national
I felt physical sick listening to the commentary about what an inspiration and example Khelif was for young women.
This is a travesty..
#SaveWomenSports
#XX
RETWEET! The IOC has failed women.
A male boxer is now the female Olympic champion.
Imane Khelif beats Yang Liu.
Male power smashes female talent
#Paris2024
#ImaneKhelif
#xx
Today we were down at Goals in the Southside of Glasgow.
Goals used to have male and female football leagues but they replaced the female league with an ‘inclusive’ league which means it’s inclusive of men who identify as women.
They no longer have female leagues at all.
Why on earth is this news? A female athlete won the women’s 1500m. How that athlete identifies is irrelevant provided that the athlete is not taking performance enhancing drugs.
Boxing! Yes boxing!
The IOC is the governing body for the boxing at Paris 2024. The IOC requires no testosterone suppression. You only need state that your gender identity is female.
This is allowing men to beat women. This is sanctioned violence against women by men.
🚨Two Olympians competing as "female boxers" in Paris were previously disqualified from a women's boxing championship for having "XY chromosomes."
Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting have been accused of "pretending to be women" by
@IBA_Boxing
.
I take person insult that this ill informed man compared males in womens sport to women from Ethiopia or Jamaica having an unfair advantage. I have a mixed race daughter with Caribbean heritage. This is a racist comment. I have written to Tim Davie at the BBC for an explanation
Sue Barker saying what absolutely everyone knows. Males should not be competing in the female category.
They are taking girls dreams away.
Bravo
@SueBarkerTennis
💜💜💜
It took just one girl,
@Riley_Gaines_
, to stand up and tell the truth about what we all knew. Others followed. Now a whole team of girls is standing together to tell the same truth. I sat watching with tears in my eyes.
#CourageCallsToCourage
There are 5, that’s right 5, males who identify as women in this team. How long until there are no females at all in women’s teams?
That is 5 women who were excluded from their sport and replaced by males.
The Beryl Ackroyd Cup is the female pre-season soccer competition in north-west Sydney.
Over the past weekend this team, The Flying Bats, (including five trans-women) won the grand final 4-0.
@KirralieS
‘It’s just one cycle event’.
‘It’s just one swimming race’
‘It’s just one event at Olympics’
‘It’s just one place in a marathon of 1000s’
‘It’s just Park Run’
‘It’s just PART of the prize money’
‘It’s just a minority of women speaking out’
No. It’s unjust.
#SaveWomensSport
Over the last 2 days I have watched this young woman put together one of the best heptathlon performances of all time. Imagine if Kevin Mayer now identified as a woman.
WA has acted to ensure Anna’s sporting career will be protected.
It’s time that
@UCI_cycling
took action too
This man is the new BBC Director of Sport. He has blocked Martina Navratilova. Martina bloody Navratilova. Blocked by this nobody who will shortly be telling us all that men make the best sportswomen. Shame on
@BBCSport
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@PennyRed
Can I ask you why we have female categories then? To carry your argument to its logical conclusion we should not have sex categories at all as being male is just an advantage like being tall. Female sport does not exist to validate men.
Never mind taking a place on a team this man demanded that he use the female changing facilities and left the club when they said no. These men are entitled and care nothing for women’s privacy and dignity.
World rugby was one of the first to act to ensure that the women’s game was limited to females and excluded TIMs. They highlighted a 30% increase in serious injury risk for females if male born athletes were to play in the female game. So why is this being allowed to continue?
You cannot make this stuff up. 🤦🏻♀️
Trans-identified male Emma Farnan spreads his legs, grabs his crotch, and adjusts his junk ON CAMERA during USA
@prsevens
women’s rugby semi-final this weekend.
This guy knew exactly what he was doing when the camera was directly on him. Our
One of these players is not like the others. Monarchs Hockey Club (Dundee) play in the Scottish Midlands league. I’ve played mixed hockey and can vouch for the difference in strength and speed between males and the resultant increased risk of injury.
Do you know how hard it is to make it as a woman in sport? Do you how much they earn in comparison to their male counterparts. Harry Kane reputedly makes £21m a year. Do you think any female player makes anything like this? The England women’s team won their Euros and reached the
If you were wondering Danni Vasquez (pictured below), was the female golfer cheated out of the win and an addition $9,000 in prize money by a male who identifies as female.
A boy who has ‘just taken up the sport’ blowing all the competition away. He is 15 and mum predicting he might get under 23 or 22 seconds in the next year or two. That is Olympic standard 200m running. Let that sink in.
@CarilynJohnson
This is his mum saying he has only just taken up “sport” and is now smashing it in the female division. He must have natural talent or is a fucking cheat!!
Adult males are not allowed to play with or against male youths yet it is fine to allow them to play with female youths.
What cognitive dissonance allows sports to make these rules?
'I'm watching my 15-year-old daughter taking on fully grown men and thinking this isn’t right'.
'It’s dangerous it’s unfair and there’s no good reason for it.' 'These men could play in mixed teams that exist but they insist on playing in the ladies’ team.'
The IOC no longer requires testosterone suppression for males to compete in female competition and where there is no World Governing Body policy participation will rely on National Governing Body regulations which may vary dramatically.
This is actually insane. It shows complete disregard for the safety of female boxers. Males have 45% greater upper body strength than females and a female’s bone density is far less than a male. Does someone have to be killed before people wake up!
Following our visit to Goals on Saturday we are now urging
@ScottishFA
to publish its year long review of its transgender policies.
It is time for Scotland to lead the world in standing up for women and girls in football.
Excellent piece by Mary Wright in the
@ScotExpress
@goalsfootballuk
As things stand there is no women’s league. The current league that women’s teams play in includes males who identify as women. We will, however, take you at your word and look forward to a women’s league next season. Women are entitled to fair and safe sport and we welcome your
These girls are showing more courage than half the governing bodies in the UK. It is not unreasonable nor transphobic to exclude male born athletes from female sports.
#couragecallstocourage
#SaveWomensSports
🚨🚨FIVE middle school female athletes in West Virginia refuse to throw shot put against male, Becky Pepper-Jackson.
This comes just 2 days after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the WV law that says you must compete in the category that matches your sex.
It's a
This is so grossly offensive to female sportswomen. An underweight male making a mockery of women’s sporting capability.
It is worth remembering that
@Nike
cut Allyson Felix’s endorsements when she became pregnant and told her to ‘know your place and just run’
#Nikehateswomen
Progress has been made but there is still a very long way to go to ensure safe and fair sport for women. Some sports do exclude those who have undergone a male puberty but many still allow male participation with or without testosterone suppression.
@sullivansa1
@VernPitt
@VeloUK
@Cyclingnewsfeed
@stevescott_itv
Then why not scrap sex categories and just have completely open categories? You either have physical categories to ensure opportunities and fairness to all or you don’t have them. Having sex categories and then ignoring the physical criteria (being female) is pointless.
Women’s sport is being attacked on all levels. Thornaby FC follows Liberton RFC in rugby in cutting its female teams.
The committees in these clubs are always dominated by men and it is difficult not to conclude that this is simple misogyny despite successes in the women’s game
Apparently Tik Tok bans you for standing up for women and girls. For standing up for fairness.
But our voices are getting louder and we won’t wheesht.
#SaveWimensSports
TikTok removed this ad from their platform for violating community guidelines. Shocker.
Should would be a shame if everyone shared this clip and bought from
@xx_xyathletics
🙂
"I have felt deeply angered, disappointed, overlooked and humiliated that the rule makers of women's sports do not feel it is necessary to protect women's sports to ensure fair competition for women anymore."
#SaveWomensSports
Hannah Arensman, who was deliberately shoved by male Killips in the women’s race at US nationals recently, has quit cycling.
NO MALES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS!!!
#SaveWomensSports
The abuse that
@Michaelpforan
and
@rubthinkwrite
have received in response to their comments on CAIS cases has been completely unacceptable. This is a difficult area and one which has been looked at by World Athletics in developing their very detailed rules in this area. World
My comments on CAIS cases, and my endorsement of
@michaelpforan
's comments have been misunderstood. I hope this isn't wilfull. Here's a shot at explanation of my view - which is 'CAIS cases are genuinely tricky'. ...
This is how hard women fought to be able to row. It is just 12 short years since they got their own boathouse. The men had no such issues.
This is what men want to take away from by including themselves in female sport. These women deserve sport free from men.
The sheer persistence of women in defending our right to participate in sport against men's overwhelming efforts to prevent us never fails to astound me.
I've written about this before - but this is what female rowers at Cambridge University were up against:
The Flying Bats have now finished their season. They won every game they played in the Northwest Sydney Women’s Premier competition.
The Flying Bats field five men in their female team.
Thais is neither fair nor safe.
🚨 An Australian football team with FIVE male players has won the Northwest Sydney Football Women's Premier Competition.
The Flying Bats, an "inclusive" football club for "self-identified women," has won every game they competed in this summer.
This is happening all over the world. Males are taking titles intended for females. If girls dare to protest they are punished.
This is not OK. This is not fair.
The first question each sport must ask is why they have sex segregated categories. The second is why they would allow somebody who does not meet the physical criteria (in the case of women’s sport, being female) play in that category. Identity and femininity are not relevant.
Even ignoring those sports that limit male participation in female events to those who have not undergone a male puberty there are 29 sports that allow male participation in female sports, including some without testosterone suppression.
This is what happens when we allow men to play in female rugby. World Rugby’s own report concluded that including transwomen in female rugby increased the risk of serious injury to females by > 30%. Why is this still being allowed to happen?
My 15 year old niece plays for a girl's rugby team.
She's a pretty good player & has only had a few scrapes & bruises until yesterday...
She was tackled by a trans 'girl' on the other team & is now in hospital with a broken arm, knee cap, & a severe concussion.
I am livid!! 😡
This is an admirable principled stand but women should not have to give up their places in competitions or on podiums because men insist on colonising women’s sports.
It has been obvious for years that countries would abuse this ideology and wouldn’t care who got hurt in the
BREAKING: Irish boxer Kellie Harrington, an Olympic Gold Medalist in 2021, has said she will REFUSE to compete against any boxers who are biological males at this Olympics.
Good for her! 👏👏👏
This bout only lasted a handful of seconds. It was enough for the Italian coach to concede the match and throw in the towel handing the victory to Khelif and preventing Angela Carini coming to any further harm.
He clearly hit her hard on the face and she went to her corner to
World Rugby concluded that there would be a substantial increase in the risk of serious injury to female players if male players were included in the women’s game.
That clearly doesn’t matter to rugby officials in Canada.
A 48-year-old man has joined a women's rugby team in Alberta, Canada, just weeks after self-identifying as a "woman."
Female players told Reduxx they feared for their safety, but that rugby officials were more concerned about a "discrimination" lawsuit.
With huge thanks to my lovely friend
@campervanwoman
for all her help and
@ScottishJenbel
for helping to check we have listed below all the policies we could find. Happy as always to be pointed to anything we have missed.
Interesting paper concluding that males outperform females even before puberty. This is borne out by track and field world best from age 5 which are overwhelmingly held by males.
#SaveWomensSport
So excited to officially announce this publication! Sex Differences in Track and Field Elite Youth. If you're interested in learning more about athletic performance differences between males and females and how puberty may affect them, read below!
We fully support and have signed this letter to the IOC president with regard to the participation of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting in the women’s boxing competition at Paris 2024.
Please share and make your feelings known about this issue. If we do not speak this will continue.
We will not be silent when women are put at risk.
@iocmedia
should immediately reinstate sex screening and keep women's sport female only. An open letter to President Bach sent today on behalf of The Countess and many others. Please read, share and make your concerns known to
Women do not want males in their sports. They are entitled to fair and safe sports.
Worth noting that the sportswomen survey included men who identify as women.
#SaveWomensSports
This is almost unbelievable. No regard for fairness or safety for women and girls. If you want to access underage girls and bear no consequences for exposing yourself all you have to do is say the magic words ‘I identify as a woman’. Have they actually lost their minds?
Gymnastics Australia changes guidelines to allow Transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category and for biological males to undress in girls locker rooms and showers.
93% of 800,000 Australians involved in gymnastics are under the age of 12.
Under the new rules,
These are high school races but they lead to college scholarships. This male is not only taking podium places away from females he is taking away their futures.
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨
A trans-identified male just dominated the Girls 200m Varsity at the Sherwood Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon.
Aayden Gallagher, a boy who "identifies" as a girl, set a new record after easily defeating his female competitors.
The treatment of Melissa Bishop has been shocking. Her own federation effectively gagging her.
Lynsey Sharp was also subject to horrendous abuse for daring to speak out at the end of the race.
SHOCKING ⚠️
I just learned the reason for the baffling 🇨🇦silence at outcome of TOTALLY UNFAIR outcome of the 2016
#Olympics
800m women’s podium that featured three MALE winners, leaving
#Canada
’s
#MelissaBishop
in 4th place instead of winning 🥇 GOLD as she deserved:
A lawyer
This tells you everything you need to know about the contempt in which politicians hold women and girls.
The integrity of sport is sacrificed to an ideology that tells them that a boys feelings are more important than their material reality.
Great to see
@WorldNetball
follow sports like swimming, track and field athletics and rugby in ensuring fairness and safety for women in sport.
Who’s next?
#SaveWomensSport
At daily
@olympics
briefing, spokesman Mark Adams confirms my reporting: IOC got
@IBA_Boxing
letter in June 2023. But Adams says without evidence tests are 'not legitimate.' I've seen Khelife, Lin tests. IOC knows, knew in 2023, New Delhi lab is CAP-accredited and ISO-certified
Micro advantages and the elephant in the room.
Elite sport is a process of tiny improvements through which an athlete hopes to progress. Improvements in technique and equipment deliver results. Dave Brailsford took this approach at British Cycling with impressive results.
Women and girls are meant to smile and cheer as boys steal their medals, championship places and scholarships.
‘Sportsmanship’ would be him competing in his correct sex category and allowing girls fair competition.
'I guess maybe I expected sportsmanship because I was cheering the rest of them on when they were called. So I guess I expected to get that reciprocated,' Garcia, formerly Antonio Brown, told the Spokesman. 'I didn't get that.'
This is why we fight for women’s sport. To celebrate epic achievements like this.
They told us women were too weak to run a marathon…today Jasmin Paris completed the 100mile Barkley.
Huge respect.
The treatment of women in sport as second class citizens to their male counterparts is wide spread. Here a female player’s injury is neither insured nor treatment provided by the club who do insure their male players.
We have also seen a number of clubs in both rugby and
Abby Hunt injured her knee last October playing for Stoke City. She's still waiting for her surgery, after an initial 22-week wait for an MRI scan on the NHS. Why? She was told
#SCFC
women 'weren't covered'. Here's her story, told excl. to
@guardian_sport
Archery
Males may compete in the female category if they declare that their gender identity is female and they have maintained testosterone levels < 2.5nmol/L for 24 months.
Today a male bodied athlete will compete against women in the English National XC. Someone who has a significant advantage over women. UKA in their response to World Athletics have shown that they know this wrong.
“World Rowing indicates that it will wait until after next year’s Paris Olympics before making a definitive ruling”
In washing its hands of decision making the IOC leaves a vacuum with doubt and uncertainty across sport.
It took 76 days from Austin Killips winning cycling's Tour of the Gila to the UCI imposing its transgender ban. Just as sport was captured by trans ideology with dizzying speed, it can extricate itself just as quickly.
Time for the IOC to step up. Column
Athletics
Males may compete in the female competition if they have not undergone a male puberty. Male athletes with certain male specific DSDs may compete in the female category provided that they have maintained testosterone levels <2.5nmol/L for 24 months
We are just back from our holidays to this nonsense. Nikki Hiltz ran brilliantly but her identity is completely irrelevant. Hiltz is a female competing in the appropriate female category.
“Mária Kovács, who bitterly remarked that in modern women’s boxing, “there is a 20 percent chance that one of the athletes will suffer a testicular injury.””
The IOC cannot continue to bury their heads in the sand on this issue.
The European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization has come forward to confirm that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is male.
István Kovács says he warned the Olympic Committee about several male boxers in the women's category, but nothing was done.
This is the worst sort of virtue signalling from
@LeoVaradkar
He makes it clear that what he cares about is that these boxers may have hurt feelings because they *might* have been raised initially as girls.
He does not care that boxers with male strength repeatedly punched
Emily Bridges response to British Cycling’s announcement that going forward there will be a female category, reserved for those born female, and an open category is dripping with entitlement and hyperbole. The women’s sports category was always intended to be for females.
"At the Paris Olympics, the world has seen what happens when you put the safety of women in the hands of fools who say it’s impossible to know what a woman is."
Boxing
Boxing at the Olympics is governed by the IOC. IOC policy is based on inclusion and no presumption of advantage and there is no testosterone limit. Eligibility will largely be left to NGBs whose policies are likely to vary.
Artistic swimming
Males may compete in the female event provided they have not undergone a male puberty and can demonstrate that their testosterone levels are maintained at <2.5nmol/L.
There is so much unnecessary speculation and disinformation around the inclusion of the boxers Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif in the female boxing category.
Evidence from the IBA and its president confirmed an XY result following a ‘gender’ (sex) test. At this stage the
This rider denied a woman a place on the podium, denied a woman her rightful prize and denied a woman a place on a team. When we include males in female sport we EXCLUDE women. Women are not men with low testosterone.
This is a farce. Everybody knows this is completely unfair. It’s not inclusive of women and girls as a girl lost her place in that team.
#SaveWomensSport
Is it fair to allow males to play girls’ basketball?
A teenage boy’s vertical jump vs. a girl is a simple demonstration.
We’ve been talking to the refs after the games and they all agree the situation is unfair.
The refs know.
🔥Everyone knows 🔥
Badminton
Case by case assessment taking into account sex at birth, player’s level, potential and playing history (all of which, prior to transition), variables related to the player’s transition (such as age and timeline of transition, type of treatment
Excellent news.
World Aquatics has successfully defended its decision to ban trans identifying men from female competition at the Court of Arbitration for Sport ensuring fair play for women.
Breaking: Lia Thomas, who was the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport.
WA say it is a “a major step forward in our efforts to protect women’s sport”.
Multiple female athletes dropped out of a women's martial arts tournament last week after being matched up to fight trans-identified males.
In one of the women's divisions, the only participants left competing were men.
I wonder how the teams they compete against feel? Or the losing plate finalists. How about the women who are excluded because this team fields a male player.
#SaveWomensSports
This ⬇️
The quiet bit spoken out loud. When a males potential hurt feelings (and we all know that Khelif knew the test results long before Paris) are more important than the female being punched in the face.
It is time for all sports at every level to follow the example of World Athletics, World Aquatics, World Rugby and others and step up to protect the female category before a generation of girls is lost to sport entirely.
There’s a special place in hell for the men who want to get in a ring and hit women for sport, and there’s also a special place for the people who enable and facilitate this.
After tests at 2 competitions the IBA concluded that boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting did not meet the criteria for inclusion in women’s competitions.
Crucially Lin Yu-ting did not appeal the decision to CAS and although Imane Khelif initially appealed the decision to CAS he
Diving
Males may compete in the female event provided they have not undergone a male puberty AND can demonstrate that their testosterone levels are maintained at <2.5nmol/L.
Gymnastics
No known policy from the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) so individual federation rules will apply which means that there may be significant variations between countries.
@ForWomenScot
Good he's speaking out. About time.
Both the Algerian and Taiwanese sports bodies in past 24h have issued the IBA with legal gagging orders not to release the genetic test results of Imane Khelif or Lin Yu-Ting.
Now why would they do that if there's nothing to hide?
🚨 ATTACK ON FEMALE ATHLETES ON TOUR 🚨 BUS TOUR THREATENED:
Overnight vandals violated nearly every inch of the Our Bodies, Our Sports
#TakeBackTitleIX
bus in Chapel Hill, NC. Egged & defaced with profanity & anti-woman messages. Radical gender ideologues on a mission to erase