A second man who had been previously disqualified from international women’s boxing events has won a women’s boxing match at the Paris Olympics.
Lin Yu-Ting, barred from the 2023 women’s boxing World Championships because he has both X and Y chromosomes, beat Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan on Friday, although Turdibekova gave it a good attempt.
Yu-Ting won a gold medal at the 2018 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships as a bantamweight, and medaled at the 2019 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships, before his disqualification in 2023.
On Sunday, Yu-Ting will face Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva, who is a woman, at 5 a.m. Eastern time.
A day earlier, an Italian woman boxer, Angela Carini, was beat by an Algerian man in less than 46 seconds. Imane Khelif will be in Saturday’s quarterfinals and face Hungary’s Luca Hamori at 11:22 a.m. Eastern time.
Women’s Rights Network commented, “We applaud the bravery of Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan who has just stepped into the ring to face a male competitor in the Women’s Featherweight Boxing at the #OlympicGames The #IOCmedia has doubled down on its policy that Female in the passport means Female and no questions asked, while women’s lives continue to be put at risk. Both of the males in the women’s boxing are through to the next round and in the case of featherweight Lin Yu Ting, a guaranteed medal. This is not Fair. This is not Safe. Shame on you @IOCmedia.”
Woman beating. How very progressive and inclusive.
Why the hell is the mainstream news agencies not covering these boxing stories?
Question: Which is more brave, to enter the boxing ring to compete against a male athlete, tacitly accepting the disadvantage that gives you, or to forfeit the match over the clear unfairness of being asking to compete against a male athlete?
I, for one, applaud the bravery of the middle school students who forfeited against their male competitor and were then punished for it. As Riley said, “It’s a sad day when 13-14yr old girls have to be the adults in the room.” The trans athlete went on to win that day by a large margin.
‘https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/middle-schoolers-who-protested-trans-athletes-participation-banned-from-future-competitions/
Is it more brave to continue the basketball game against a male athlete after a number of girls have already been injured, or to forfeit the game and acknowledge that your team is playing against a stacked deck?
‘https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/sports/school-stands-by-trans-basketball-player-accused-of-hurting-opposing-girls-blasts-harmful-criticism/
At what point does the satire become real?
‘https://babylonbee.com/news/imane-khelif-wins-first-ever-gold-medal-in-freestyle-domestic-violence
The women knew the rules going in. They should have boycotted. So a lot of this in on that decision.
But the olympics are the root cause. Screw the olympics.
“Female” on passport means female. And there you have it, what a government agency writes on a piece of paper is by definition True. That seems a horrible place to be.
Women.
Stop participating. Just stop it.
Make a mockery of the sport. If you must box against a man, just trip out of corner at the first bell, and lie down until you get the 10 count. If you must swim against a man, just doggie paddle, let him win in a landslide. Powerlifting? Have them put five kilos on.
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Only ridicule will get the organizers of the sport to recognize how much of a pantomime it has become.
The Olympics are sick. Society is sick, pretending that there is anything competitive about this. Allowing men who have serious mental and spiritual issues and are freaks of nature to publically beat up women, who have dedicated their lives to excelling in the sport they love would be unacceptable to a functioning society. Affirming this pointless violence is unacceptable.