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so basically too much of a girl to do boxing, but now she's made it to the fucking Olympics she's not woman enough? Poor lady can't win.
If you can't take a punch from someone in the same weight devision as you then you shouldn't be boxing in the Olympics.
The frustrating part is mainstream outlets like Reuters repeating the talking point that Khelif was previously banned from other women's international boxing competitions for failing gender testing, while leaving off the part where the IBA refuses to release anything about their methodology -- only that they did not check for presence of XY chromosomes or elevated T levels. Not that either of these things fucking matter, but the 2023 IBA ruling doesn't even pass the "plausible deniability" sniff test; the whole ruling comes off sounding like it was vibes-based, so of fucking course it underpins the narrative that the TERF-o-sphere is running with.
It's literally just traditionalist-sexist misogyny using transphobia as a cudgel to police women's bodies, and it's wild to see it leaking into more mainstream discourse.
The fact that Carini also happens to be an It*lian cop is
though.
Oh, she's a pig? Glad she got her ass beat then. No wonder she appealed to authority the moment a women more talented than her won.
I know, Cringepedia, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Carini#Personal_life