Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics
Saturday 10th August ABC TV News NSW 7 pm
Nakari Thorpe, presenter:
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal amid a Paris Olympics marred by speculation over her eligibility. After enduring abuse from around the world over misconceptions about her gender, Khelif has emerged victorious …
Vera Figner:
It was about his sex, Nakari, not his gender.
Emma Peel:
And it’s not the misconceptions that caused the controversy, it’s the facts of the case. That Khelif’s got XY chromosomes and so is a man. A man, in this case, with an intersex condition. If you’ve got the Y, you’re a guy.
Well, there were misconceptions. Like that he’s trans. And that he’s a woman.
The ABC doesn’t think that second one is a misconception, though.
That’s because they’re in thrall to gender-identity ideology. Like the IOC. You’re a woman if you say you are. If your passport says you are.
Tom Maddocks, reporter:
Triumph over opponents in and outside the ring.
So a man winning gold in the women’s category is a feel-good story for the ABC. A brave triumph over adversity.
Maddocks frames it as being for or against this particular individual. Whereas the serious opposition is to the IOC for making the eligibility criterion for entry into the women’s boxing category an ‘F’ on the passport.
Khelif’s gold medal isn’t a triumph for women’s sport. Pas du tout!
… a most private matter was questioned in a very public arena …
Oh, how ungentlemanly of the IBA, developmental biologist Dr Emma Hilton, former elite heptathlete and coach Linda Blade, sports scientist Ross Tucker, etc!
Come on, Tom! Reprends-toi!
Athletes don’t have the right to keep their eligibility secret. Their weight’s not private. Their age isn’t private. Their piss isn’t private. Their blood isn’t private. Of course eligibility for the women’s category depends on whether the athlete’s a woman or not. It takes nothing more than a single cheek swab to prove it.
Male fans:
One two three, vive l’Algerie!
A victory that is sure to lift a nation. Tom Maddocks, ABC News, Paris.
A victory that’s sure to ignite indignation in the hearts of women and all other fair-minded individuals everywhere, more like. The fallout from this débâcle is already happening, but the ABC can’t see it, they’re blinded by their gender-ideology spectacles. So we get no mention of growing calls for the re-introduction of a sex test for women athletes – one of them made by Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls.
And no mention of the new handsign we’ve now got, thank you Svetlana Staneva.
La lutte continue.
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