Male boxer beats Bulgarian woman and is now guaranteed to medal in Paris Olympics

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Svetlana Kamenova Staneva makes the sign of an X after being beaten by Lin Yu-Ting in the quarterfinal round of women's boxing at the Paris Olympics.

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting, a 28-year-old male, will win at least a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics after beating 34-year-old Bulgarian female Svetlana Kamenova Staneva in the women’s 57kg quarterfinals Sunday.

After the decision, Staneva defiantly would not shake Yu-Ting’s hand and made an X sign with her fingers to indicate the X chromosomes of women, in protest of the unfairness of the Olympics.

YuTing had advanced to the round on Friday with his win against female boxer Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan on Friday. Yu-Ting is 5 foot 9 inches, and Turdibekova is 5 foot 6 inches. Staneva is 5 foot 8 inches.

This means both men who are fighting in women’s divisions will get at least a bronze medal.

On Saturday Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori, 5 foot 9 inches, was beaten by Khelif, 5 foot 10 inches, in the welterweight division of women’s boxing, giving Khelif at least a bronze medal in the 66kg division.

Yu-ting and Khelif are the subject of controversy since they are not allowed to fight in the International Boxing Federation as women.

USA Today says today that objections to them fighting as women is a right-wing-fomented point of view. “At the Paris Olympics, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has become a target for right-wing activists falsely labeling Khelif as transgender.”

Yu-Ting, who moves to the semi-finals on Aug. 7 to fight for silver, and Algerian male boxer Imane Khelif, who fights a Thai woman in a semi-final round on Aug. 6, have X and Y chromosomes that make them males, although they have a combination of male and female sexual characteristics.

The two men have rare conditions that used to be referred to as hermaphroditism. Because they have testicles internally, they grew up with testosterone-fueled physiques that more resemble males with stronger muscles and upper body mass.

The head of the Olympics has stated that anyone questioning the decision of the International Olympics Committee is engaging in hate speech.

11 COMMENTS

  1. In my house, the Olympics are dead. Mocking God with that disgusting opening ceremony and now allowing men to beat up women.

  2. You know why MAGA will lose? Their whole movement is based on trying to make everyone else as hateful and depressed as they are. People want to enjoy life without MAGA always turning everything into some culture war. We want to watch the Olympics without MAGA’s weird inspections of an Algerian boxer’s genitals, raging about France’s opening ceremony, or whining about Simone Biles getting mental healthcare. We want to drink a beer without MAGA whining that a transgender person once drank one in a social media post. And the list goes on.

    • Really? There are certain words and phrases that I can no longer say because of the whining Lefties. Men beating up women is not a sport. But, if that’s what they want to do go ahead. I sure won’t be watching. Funny, I never see Maga hats in all the looting, burning, shoplifting, gluing oneself to roads or throwing liquids on precious artworks. Time to look in the mirror Sebastian.

  3. Google is trying to bury this story, and the two articles I did find called anyone protesting the xy’s completing against women in women’s competitions bigots and hateful.
    Trying to find video of it, a small clip on X was all I could find.

  4. Just have plain old boxing, anyone can hop in. Let professionals join in too, the little he/shes would have some real fun.

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