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Following the grotesque, gender-bending debacle of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremonies, the woke madness at this disgraceful sham of an athletic competition continued, as a twenty-five-year-old Algerian man was crowned victor in women’s 66-kilogram division boxing after battering an Italian female into literal submission.
Olympic hopeful Angela Carini surrendered after a scant 46 seconds in the ring with an obviously physically more imposing Imane Khelif. In that time she had been hit with at least one punch, the devasting force of which she had never encountered – because she was accustomed to fighting other women. How quaint. How weird.
In this gloriously topsy-turvy, woke world the Left has constructed for us, it is the height of bigotry now to state that men cannot compete in women’s competitions, from sports to chess to beauty pageants, and cannot strip down in women’s gym locker rooms. All men need do is pump themselves full of hormones, grow their hair out, and claim to be women.
Sure, Imane Khelif had been disqualified from the International Boxing Association (IBA) 2023 World Boxing Championships for failing gender-eligibility tests. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” IBA President Umar Kremlev explained. Apparently the IBA still maintains a grip on sanity.
But the International Olympic Committee, which uses different criteria, allowed Mr. Khelif to compete. “Everyone competing in the women’s category is complying with the competition eligibility rules,” said an IOC spokesperson, who should be ashamed of himself. “They are women in their passports and it’s stated that this is the case, that they are female.”
But we all know that they are not female. In every cell of their bodies, they are still male. No matter how they style their hair, they still benefit from male upper-body strength, punching power, and natural aggression. Carini’s decision to put an end to the bout must have been an excruciatingly difficult one, but it was the right one. Otherwise she might have gone on to suffer a lifelong disability, like poor female volleyball player Payton McNabb, now 19, who was left with brain damage after taking a spiked ball to the face from a trans opponent a couple of years ago. Or the MMA fighter whose skull was crushed by a trans opponent a few years ago. As it is, Carini reportedly had her nose broken by one of those punches.
Prior to Thursday’s bout, the Algerian Olympic Committee (COA) whined about concerns over Mr. Khelif’s eligibility: “COA strongly condemns the unethical targeting and maligning of our esteemed athlete […] with baseless propaganda from certain foreign media outlets,” the organization said. “Such attacks on her personality and dignity are deeply unfair, especially as she prepares for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics.”
You know who else prepared for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics? Angela Carini, who is an actual woman participating in women’s boxing and who deserved to face an opponent on a level playing field – in other words, not a man.
But the Left has overturned thousands of years of biological truth as part of its cultural Marxist assault on every civilizational norm, including perhaps the most basic distinction in the natural order: that between male and female. And Angela Carini is the latest undeserving target of that ongoing, cruel rejection of reality.
Speaking after the match, the “heartbroken” Italian told reporters,
I went to the ring to honor my father. I was told a lot of times that I was a warrior but I preferred to stop for my health. I have never felt a punch like this.
I got into the ring to fight. I didn’t give up, but one punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I’m going out with my head held high.
After the second punch, after years of experience, I felt a strong pain in the nose. I said enough, because I didn’t want. I couldn’t finish the fight after the punch to the nose. So it was better to put an end to it.
The referee announced Mr. Khelif as the winner, and moments later Carini fell to her knees in tears, broken by the essential unfairness of having her Olympic dream crushed by the juggernaut of leftist ideology. Mr. Khelif, meanwhile, will advance to the next round of that women’s division, his Olympic dream still alive.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who was visiting her nation’s athletes in the Olympic Village on Thursday, expressed some concern beforehand that Carini would face Mr. Khelif. “We have to pay attention, in an attempt to not discriminate, that we’re actually discriminating” against women’s rights, Meloni said.
Oh, it’s too late for that. We are not merely in danger of discriminating against women’s rights; this trans madness is leading to the eradication of private spaces for girls and women, the erasure even of the very definition of “woman.” Gender ideology is steamrolling right over women’s rights and leaving women battered and broken-hearted in athletic competitions. The Left has made a spectator sport now of men beating up women, and it’s on display for all the world to see and be sickened by. Now is the time to say, “No more.”
The gender ideologues of the Left own this disgusting Olympic travesty. The Democrat Party owns this. Everyone who refuses to define the word “woman” and who stands by this misogynistic insanity owns Angela Carini’s heartbreak and every other competitive dream stolen from a woman. We must hang this albatross on the neck of every woke ideologue, including and especially presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, who is a prominent ally of the queering of America. The Left is normally impervious to being shamed, and so we must be relentless. Make them wear this crime against nature like a scarlet letter.
No more.
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