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Khelif Is Male

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Alan Abrahamson — a seasoned American journalist and member of the International Olympic Committee’s press committee — just published an excerpt of Khelif’s 2023 test results from a certified and accredited lab that stated “chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.”

Test Results Confirm How Bad the Fact-Checking Was on Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif

It’s ok, you don’t have to apologize. All I ask is, please consider why the very obvious fact that he’s a man was not obvious to you. And why “believe women” was suspended in the case of an Italian female boxer who stood very close to Khelif and got hit in the face by him. Why can’t we trust that a woman knows if she was hit by a man? Can we trust women at all or only when no man finds their conclusions objectionable?

7 responses to “Khelif Is Male”

  1. Occasional Reader Avatar
    Occasional Reader

    The one thing I’m confused about…..Wasn’t Khelif born with a vagina or had otherwise ambiguous non-male genitalia? If so, it makes sense why Khelif was classified as a woman…despite the obviously male phenotype. And in general, I’m in favor of classifying sex by genitalia instead of DNA. Genitalia is correct in detemining sex in 99.99999999999% of cases. Of course, if Khelif was born with a penis and has it surgically altered later in life, then they are just all miserable liars.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      You can’t ask people to show their genitals. So it has to be DNA.

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    Occasional Reader

    But I think Khelif was born with a vagina….like the actual authentic birth certificate shows female? Who is going to DNA test an infant with a vagina….especially in a developing country? So Khelif and others had good reason to believe he was female. This isn’t a Lia Thomas situation, for instance. Thomas was born unambiguously male, had male genitalia, and then one day arbitrarily decided he was a woman. I think that Khelif has a true medical issue….born with a vagina but chromosomally male. I don’t think Khelif should box against women and think he poses a danger if he were to be allowed to continue (to say nothing of the unfairness of it). But I understand why he thought himself to be a woman. It’s truly somewhat of a tragic medical condition (if my understanding is correct.).

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      methylethyl

      Do we know that, though? Even in the US it was very recently standard practice that an infant born with ambiguous or misshapen genitalia would simply have the organ quietly amputated before coming home from the hospital, and be declared a girl, which was less embarrassing to the family than having a boy who would not grow up to be a fully functional man. DNA testing for that was not possible until… within my lifetime. Do we know that this isn’t still standard practice in other countries? It seems extremely likely in countries where strict sex segregation and patriarchal culture still dominate.

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        We will probably never know for sure but we do know that he was allowed to compete after a genetic test demonstrated he was male. The only way to avoid this in the future is to bring to light what happened.

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      Clarissa

      The DNA test that surfaced this week is from 2023. Why was he allowed to compete against women all this time after the test? Why was the female boxer who was in the ring with him pilloried for noticing that he hits like a man? Her entire job is to get hit in the ring. Why didn’t anybody believe that she knew what happened to her? Why is it precisely the “believe women” crowd that immediately refused to believe a woman who was describing her own experience?

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        We all know the answer to that one. The “believe women” crowd is actually the subjective truth crowd. What you say is only true if you are a card-carrying member of the Church of Woke in good standing. Everyone else is automatically lying/wrong, by definition, and if you say anything, now or in the past, that contradicts the current orthodoxy, your card is revoked.

        I have no idea why anybody wants to belong to that church. They seem kind of mean.

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