t give you an answer now. Endless possibilities are open to any individual. It depends whether one wants to put in the time and effort or not. Now I need to rest and cannot answer. I am in too emotional a state right now, I am a woman after all."
Unlike her opponent.
No worries, David Miller's solved it. You won't believe who's actually to blame. Just try to guess. https://t.co/uqj07Dwmh6
— ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ (@fem_mb) August 5, 2024
itical to the best interests of patients.
It shows that the publication of the Cass review isn’t enough. The many doctors who stand by “first, do no harm” must ensure that their colleagues return to the evidence in relation to this group of vulnerable children who deserve so much better from the medical profession.
A fourth female boxer is knocked out of the Olympics by a male.
A defiant Staneva signals the anger we all feel 💪
“I am XX. I am a woman”#paris2024 #fairplayforwomen#SaveWomensSports pic.twitter.com/W6cs4pwRTo
— FairPlayForWomen (@fairplaywomen) August 4, 2024
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Female boxer makes defiant gesture after being beaten by a biological male at the Paris Olympics.
Bulgarian boxer Svetlana Staneva refused to shake the hand of Lin Yu-Ting, who has male XY Chromosomes.
Instead she held her hands up in an ‘X’ gesture, a symbol for women. pic.twitter.com/N2H7lGjizu
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 4, 2024
Snapshots from North Korea seems to be a new feature at the Daily NK, aimed at English speakers. Two items from the July 29-August 2 selection:
Mother reports daughter for watching S. Korean media, shocking N. Korean workers
Three female workers in their 20s from the Sinyang Export Clothing Factory in South Pyongan Province were recently caught watching South Korean dramas and listening to South Korean music. They were subsequently arrested and subjected to an ideological struggle meeting at the factory. Shockingly, one of the women was reported by her own mother, who provided detailed information about her daughter’s activities. The authorities praised the mother’s actions as exemplary, citing the law against reactionary thought and culture. This incident has caused significant controversy among factory workers, with some expressing disbelief at the mother’s actions and others showing sympathy for her difficult position. Three women are still under investigation and may face severe punishment, including potential long-term labor re-education sentences, due to the strict enforcement of laws against consuming foreign media in North Korea.
N. Korea orders weekly study of Kim Il Sung’s legacy in July
North Korea issued a directive mandating weekly studies of Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary achievements throughout July, following the 30th anniversary of his death. According to a source in North Pyongan Province, the order aims to observe the “month of greatest national mourning” solemnly. The study sessions focus on Kim’s political ideology of “people-first” and his leadership in realizing the people’s dreams. The directive emphasizes Kim’s role in establishing the Workers’ Party and his reliance on the masses. It concludes by connecting Kim’s legacy to current leader Kim Jong Un’s policies, urging citizens to support the regime’s continued focus on politics centered on the people. Officials are expected to deepen their understanding of Kim’s ideology and recommit to developing North Korean-style socialism, while the general population is encouraged to elevate their political consciousness and better follow the party’s leadership.
No culture allowed beyond glorification of the Kim dynasty.
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Professor of Law at Duke, at Quillette – XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained. Needs to be read in full. Here's her conclusion:
I will close by reiterating the three basic points that I and other experts in girls’ and women’s sport have been making for a long time.
First, the female category in elite sport has no raison d’être apart from the biological sex differences that lead to sex differences in performance and the gap between the top male and female athletes. The suggestion that we could choose to rationalise the category differently—for instance, on the basis of self-declared gender identity—or that we could make increasingly numerous exceptions in the interests of inclusion (as the IOC seems to have done to allow Khelif and Lin to compete in Paris) has no legs outside of certain progressive enclaves.
Second, any eligibility standard—like the IOC’s framework—that denies or disregards sex-linked biology is necessarily category-defeating.
Finally, federations that are committed to the female category and to one-for-one equality for their female athletes must step up and do two things. They must craft evidence-based rules and then stick to them consistently. And they must seriously embrace other opportunities to welcome gender diversity within their sports.
and Hamas’ propagandists who fiercely denied the term’s sexual connotation, but also reputable commentators, public intellectuals, and scholars. Heiko Wimmen, project director for Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon at the International Crisis Group, appealed to phonology, pedantically insisting that the Hamas gunman used a different word in Levantine Arabic, with a similar pronunciation but a different sibilant, which simply means “young women.” Meanwhile, Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown, who characterized the IDF video as an “Islamophobic” mistranslation, denied the sexual connotation of the term, insisting that the word means merely prisoners or captives. Other commentators maintained that associating the term with sexual enslavement meant “regurgitating Israeli propaganda” and constituted “absolutely racist drivel.”…
Why, despite the clear evidence of the Islamic State’s use of sabaya to justify sexual slavery, have commentators rushed to deny the term’s sexual connotation in the context of the Palestinian terror group and Israel? And more broadly, why, in the case of Jewish victims, have so many been eager to undermine evidence about the use of sexual violence by Palestinians?
The answer is that the purpose of denying the sexual connotation of the word sabaya is to sanction Oct. 7 as a legitimate military operation under the laws of war, rather than an orgiastic human rights massacre.
In other words it's all part of the determination on the part of "anti-Zionists" in the west to portray Hamas as a legitimate resistance movement against imperialism, like the Vietcong say, rather than what it is: an Islamist terror group bent on the killing of Jews, the destruction of Israel, and ultimately the triumph of Islam worldwide.
Whereas al-Qaida and IS are understood to represent wanton cruelty and inhumanity, in pursuit of a utopian ideology, the violence groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad resort to is deemed understandable—for some, even justifiable—since its context is a struggle for national liberation. Without this fictional distinction, Israel’s war against Palestinian terrorism would have to be regarded as legitimate.
And that can never be admitted.
And now, from Jennifer Sieland at Reduxx:
A Hungarian sports official has come out and stated that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is not female. István Kovács, the European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization and former Secretary General of the International Boxing Association, told Hungarian press that he had warned the International Olympic Committee about males participating in women’s boxing as early as 2022, but that nothing was done.
In a shocking statement made to Magyar Nemzet yesterday, Kovács confirmed the speculation surrounding the Algerian boxer, adding that it had been known as early as 2022 that Khelif was biologically male.
“The problem was not with the level of Khelif’s testosterone, because that can be adjusted nowadays, but with the result of the gender test, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” Kovács said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet, adding that a total of five boxers had been examined including Khelif by the International Boxing Association, and all of them “were indeed men.”
Kovács asserted that he personally reported the shocking result immediately to the International Olympics Committee, “but as unbelievable as it is, they have not responded to this to this day.” The retired world champion boxer also commented that he recently spoke with former women’s world champion Mária Kovács, who bitterly remarked that in modern women’s boxing, “there is a 20 percent chance that one of the athletes will suffer a testicular injury.”…
These developments come as a wildfire of debate and discussion have surrounded the participation of Khelif in the women’s category. As first reported by Reduxx, Khelif is one of two individuals previously disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships for failing chromosomal testing.
Speaking to Reduxx, Marshi Smith, the co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, condemned the IOC after reviewing the shocking revelations made by Kovács.
“The cover-up and championing of male athletes in women’s Olympic sports is the greatest sports scandal of our lifetime,” Smith said.
Not just any old sport, where it's unfair because of the male advantage – boxing involves trying to beat the shit out of your opponent, whatever the baloney about the "greatest sport", and the Marquess of Queensberry rules. This is dangerous: potentially lethal.
Oliver Brown in the Telegraph:
After finding herself easily dismantled in all three rounds, Sitora Turdibekova did not linger for the post-fight handshake. Instead she swept out of the ring in tears, distraught at being so conspicuously outclassed by her opponent in reach, speed and power. If it felt as though we had been here before, we had. Barely 24 hours earlier, in fact. For the Uzbek’s conqueror was Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, a boxer who, just like Algeria’s Imane Khelif, had recorded two sex tests in two years revealing the presence of XY chromosomes.
While the fight was not as visceral a spectacle as Khelif’s 46-second destruction of Italy’s Angela Carini, the outcome was the same: a beaten woman weeping, a viewing public in uproar, and an Olympics engulfed by rancour and recrimination. This is a scandal assuming dimensions that the International Olympic Committee can no longer control, with each crushing victory by a biologically male fighter over a female confirming the impression that it has abandoned its fundamental duty of care.
Lin was the unanimous winner on points, with Turdibekova holding her head in anguish as the result was announced. Frankly, it had not been much of a contest, with Lin, the top seed in the women’s featherweight division, maximising the reach advantage to rain down shuddering blows and winning every round by every judge except one. Turdibekova’s distress was the worst possible look for the IOC, the day after a sobbing Carini had claimed she feared for her life during the mismatch with Khelif. Both these women needed the global governing body to act decisively to ensure their safety. And both have been abysmally let down.
Sometimes the level of stupidity is….breathtaking, From a Labour MP, no less.
Sending love and solidarity to Iman Khelife, Lin Yu-ting and anyone else who doesn’t conform to conventional standards of femininity 🫶🏽
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 2, 2024