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Boxer Imane Khelif thanked God for her survival, well before her Olympic match | The Gateway Pundit

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Boxer Imane Khelif thanked God for her survival, well before her Olympic match | The Gateway Pundit

If you’re a member of the International Olympic Committee, or a broadcaster, or an amateur athlete, it would normally be good news that people are talking about the quadrennial Games.

Sadly, that won’t be the case in Paris in 2024. Between the mockery of God and the Seine River effluent disrupting the men’s triathlon, organizers apparently had little to celebrate. And now they face what is likely their biggest challenge yet: a female boxer named Imane Khelif.

Khelif, who is Algerian, also has the relative advantage of having XY chromosomes, making her male. Several media outlets, including Reuters, have reported that she suffers from an extremely rare condition called “differences of sex development,” which can include cases where a person’s chromosomes and genitals do not match at birth.

She is one of two boxers competing as women who were disqualified from last year’s world championships in New Delhi after the International Boxing Association said they failed a test – in this case just hours before the gold medal fight in 2023.

“Some people with DSD are raised as females but have XY sex chromosomes, blood testosterone levels in the male range and the ability to use the testosterone circulating in their bodies,” Reuters reported.

“This benefit is not limited to higher testosterone levels, but also extends to muscle mass, bone structure and faster muscle contraction,” the news agency said. “In combat sports like boxing, this can be a serious safety concern.”

Part of the problem, however, is that the IBA has been stripped of its role in managing boxing at the Olympics. That role has been given to the IOC, which has diversity guidelines that make inclusion of women the default status, essentially allowing people with behavioural and personality disorders to compete as women, including in sports like boxing.

The only time someone is excluded is for safety and fairness reasons. You might think that’s the case here, but the IOC disagrees. The Paris 2024 boxing unit and the IOC issued a joint statement, saying they were “committed to protecting the human rights of all athletes competing at the Olympic Games” and that the competitors “were victims of a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA.”

However, that doesn’t deny that women have DSDs – and Khelif’s first-round opponent quit 46 seconds into the fight, Britain’s Daily Mail reported, after saying she feared for her safety and had never been hit so hard by another competitor before.

Italy’s Angela Carini collapsed after the fight, saying she had never received such a heavy blow in her entire career. Video of a punch landing on her nose showed just how violent Khelif’s punches can be:

Today, another opponent of Khelif is speaking out.

Brianda Tamara was defeated by Khelif in December 2022, before chromosomal and testosterone tests disqualified her from the IBA World Championships in March 2023.

“When I fought with her (Khelif), I felt very overwhelmed, her punches hurt me a lot,” the Mexican boxer said in a March 2023 message, translated via Google.

“I don’t think I’ve ever felt that way in my 13 years of boxing, or in my fights with men. Thank God I walked out of the ring that day unharmed, and it’s nice that they finally understood.”

Why has she remained silent? As she wrote in an Instagram post criticizing Khelif’s participation in the Olympics, she said that “they wished me dead when I reacted” to his genetic advantage, the Daily Mail reported.

The fight video doesn’t lie:

Admittedly, Khelif’s case is a statistical outlier. However, her “incompatible” chromosomes and genitalia give her an unfair advantage. And while her criminal record shows she is beatable, she is also a particularly hard hitter, as the evidence will show.

She has the choice not to compete, and the Paris Olympics have the choice not to put women at risk. Neither wants to exercise that choice, which is why the world is talking about it. And, despite the IOC’s welter of wokeness—both in its joint statement on Khelif and elsewhere in Paris—they’re not speaking well of what’s happening in France right now, either.

This article was originally published in The Western Journal.