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...is on display at the Olympics:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/olympics-bo...Khelif, who has been in the spotlight for failing a gender eligibility test at a tournament last year, progressed to the welterweight quarter-finals after Italian opponent Angela Carini abandoned the bout after 46 seconds.
Carini later explained that she had decided not to fight after feeling intense pain in her nose. Khelif will next face either Hungarian Luca Anna Hamori or Australia's Marissa Williamson in the quarter-finals on Saturday.This is the boxing match between the guy claiming to be a woman and a real woman. The real woman last 46 seconds and probably has a broken nose after their "match". I expect the other match with the female-identifying dude to be similar to this one.
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You might be surprised, but I agree with you.
Your gender category should be the one assigned at birth. If you spent a lifetime bathed in (for example) testosterone, your bone structure is going to be more massive, and your upper body strength greater (in general). When you transition, even when treated with estrogen, much of that remains. I understand it does diminish somewhat. But it's still -IMO- an unfair advantage if you enter women's events.
If they are going to do it, there probably should be a third category for "trans-women". Then they are all on the same footing (formerly male, now female), with all the same hormonal history.
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Dope1:
This is the boxing match between the guy claiming to be a woman and a real woman. onepoorguy:
Your gender category should be the one assigned at birth. You're both misinformed.
Khelif is not a transgender athlete. Khelif is
not "a guy." She was
born as a female but has a disorder of sex development (DSD) which may give her XY chromosomes and testosterone levels similar to a male athlete. Khelif has not undergone any procedure and her Algeria-issued passport lists her gender as female.
Khelif has done nothing but be born with a rare condition.
https://en.as.com/olympic_games/why-was-imane-khel...
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I am not following the Olympics at all. Couldn't care less. 1poorkid is the sports nut. I'm not interested at all. I'd rather watch NOVA.
I was responding to the (apparently misstatement?) that there was a trans-female competing against women. So I stand by my statements. If those don't apply in this particular situation, I accept that.
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Between 0.5% and 1.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender or nonbinary.
And of those how many are athletes? Anyone?
This number is so small it's a non-issue.
But our MAGA friends bring it up because they don't want to talk about the real issues in America...
Guns are the leading cause of death for American children. How many died today? Anyone? If you vote republican you share in the blame.
A senile, racist, rapist is running for President.
Thanks to Trumps tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy about $6 billion is added to the national debt everyday. Don't worry more tax cuts will fix it! LOL
Inflation has come down to target levels thanks to Joe Biden.
Donald Trump proved once again that he is a racist and an idiot yesterday.
Child poverty is up sharply, because Republicans in Congress (plus Manchin and Sinema) refused to renew the expanded Child Tax Credit in President Biden's American Rescue Plan.
The Earth recorded its hottest days on record this week.
Joe Biden is bringing American hostages home.
Trump killed a bipartisan bill that would have addressed the border problem...
Life long Republican Mitt Romney summed up the situation nicely:
"The border is a very important issue for Donald Trump, and the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that
he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Joe Biden (Kamala Harris) for it is really appalling."
And the minimum wage is exactly where it was 15 years ago, $7.25 because the GOP has blocked all attempts to raise it. (Fortunately it is higher in blue states, where folks have higher incomes and higher life expectancies.)
OK you can go back to hating on minority groups now.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/13/how...https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/mct#--:...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_...
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"You're both misinformed. Khelif is not a transgender athlete. Khelif is not "a guy." She was born as a female but has a disorder of sex development (DSD) which may give her XY chromosomes and testosterone levels similar to a male athlete. Khelif has done nothing but be born with a rare condition."
LOL. Another MAGA conspiracy theory shot to hell. On to the next one Dope!
Do you MAGA's ever tire of folks taking advantage of your gullibility?
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" “Shame on IOC!” Martina Navratilova calls out ‘unfair’ Olympics committee for allowing two ‘male’ boxers to compete in female boxing
It's a new day-new controversy in Paris as the 2024 Olympics continues to get backlash from the media."
https://firstsportz.com/martina-navratilova-calls-...
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It's not high on my list of concerns, either. I assume you aren't calling me "MAGA". Them's fightin' words.
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Khelif is not a transgender athlete. Khelif is not "a guy." She was born as a female but has a disorder of sex development (DSD) which may give her XY chromosomes and testosterone levels similar to a male athlete. Khelif has not undergone any procedure and her Algeria-issued passport lists her gender as female.
And Khelif was denied permission to box in earlier events because he/she doesn't meet the criteria.
Thanks.
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Dope1:And Khelif was denied permission to box in earlier events because he/she doesn't meet the criteria.
Khelif is not a "he/she," Khelif is a female, assigned female at birth.
She competed in the Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi in 2018 (finishing in 17th place). She competed in Russia the following year. She competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, reaching the quarterfinals, and she finished second in the 2022 Women's World Championships in Istanbul.
The Russia-led International Boxing Association (IBA), which is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), disqualified Khelif after a gender eligibility test allegedly found she has XY chromosomes (the IBA has said the specifics of the test are confidential but alluded to the chromosome abnormality).
IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a news conference this week: “These boxers are completely eligible. They are women on their passports, they are women who have competed in the Tokyo Olympics and have been competing for many years, I think we all have a responsibility to tone it down and not turn it into a witch hunt.”
Yeah, too late for that.
Khelif has followed all the IOC rules and has passed the IOC's standards. The fact that the unrecognized Russia-led IBA disqualified her is immaterial.
The IOC issued a statement today, referring to the IBA ban, stating that it “was taken without any proper procedure — especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years. Such an approach is contrary to good governance.”
What you have done, unsurprisingly following Russia's cue, is conflate transgenderism with hyperandrogynism — the excessive production of testosterone by female bodies — and intersexuality.
Amy Broadhurst - who fought and beat Khelif during the 2022 World Championships - said: “Have a lot of people texting me over Imane Khelif. Personally I don't think she has done anything to ‘cheat’. I think it’s the way she was born and that's out of her control. The fact that she has been beaten by 9 females before says it all.”
No matter what you mistakenly believe, Khelif was a female at birth, has always identified herself as female, has been boxing since she was a child, has lost several matches to other female boxers, and the IOC is allowing her to participate in the Olympics as a female because she's a female.
You're welcome.
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Inflation has come down to target levels thanks to Joe Biden.
On planet Earth? I doubt it. It's thanks to Powell who, after Volcker, had the courage to raise interest rates. Inflation every time and everywhere is a monetary phenomenon.
Biden the Senile just forgave $167B of student debt. Like all Democrats, he forgets that it's not his own money. It's my money and yours that we will never get back. These people were adults, entered into voluntary contracts to take on debt, and then eventually repay them, but oh no, they were duped and deceived, and they don't really deserve to pay them back. It makes a mockery of all the people who have paid scrimped and their own Student loans back.
I'm glad he's out of the race. Democrats thirst for my money worse than a teenage boy after girls. I think/hope Harris is different and more centrist.
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Harris - more Centrist than Biden?
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" Harris - more Centrist than Biden?"
Yep, and I told Jlo to stop calling me, I'm busy.
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Biden the Senile just forgave $167B of student debt. Like all Democrats, he forgets that it's not his own money. It's my money and yours that we will never get back
We should never have let for profit Universities, etc., be so unchecked, and pumped them full of money. And it shouldn't be our money, it should be at least half business. Let them pay if they want access to this market.
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Between 0.5% and 1.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender or nonbinary.
And of those how many are athletes? Anyone?
This number is so small it's a non-issue.Much like they elevate any news of an "illegal immigrant" killing or raping an American to a national catastrophe, despite the clear evidence that immigrants commit crimes at a lesser rate than native citizens. "Laken Riley! Say her name!" (MTG) - give me a friggin' break.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-op...
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The truth is, Trump the senile, serial-rapist gave large corporations historically massive tax cuts.
Now many pay ZERO IN TAXES!
Like all MAGA's, he forgets that it's not his money...It's my money and yours and not only will we will never get it back...
we'll be paying interest on it for the rest of our lives. (And so will your kids!)
Why should we have to subsidize Amazon, Tesla and Nike?
Thanks Trump, you Moron!
"The current United States tax code allows some of the biggest company names in the country to not pay any federal corporate income tax."
"Study Finds 34% of Large, Profitable Corporations Pay Zero in Federal Income Taxes in 2018 the first year that the Trump tax cuts went into effect."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporations-tru...https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/13/co...
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If this athlete is chromosomally XY, she has a rare anomaly where she lacks the capacity to produce the receptor for testosterone. The condition is called Testicular Feminization. Moreover, this makes it impossible for her to cheat as no matter how much testosterone is in her body, it will have no effect.
fd
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Yep, and I told Jlo to stop calling me, I'm busy.
Well played, sir. :)
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The truth is, Trump the senile, serial-rapist gave large corporations historically massive tax cuts.
Now many pay ZERO IN TAXES!
Like all MAGA's, he forgets that it's not his money...It's my money and yours and not only will we will never get it back...
Not taking money out of someone's pocket is different from putting money into their pockets.
Taxes are government confiscation, supposedly for a common good.
Debt forgiveness is government largesse, robbing Peter the hardworking taxpayer to pay Paul the liberal arts major who made bad choices and lived beyond his means.
Hey, I would like to drink champagne and eat caviar on a burger-flipper's salary. Why won't you pay for it?
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Dope"This is the boxing match between the guy claiming to be a woman and a real woman. The real woman last 46 seconds and probably has a broken nose after their "match". I expect the other match with the female-identifying dude to be similar to this one.
How effing dumb do you have to be to believe Algeria, a predominantly Muslim nation, would select a transgender person to represent them nation?
