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Imane Khelif won gold in boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. I am happy that she managed to win, even while under harassment from some of the most powerful people in the world.
I also see to my happiness that her lawyer, Nabil Boudi, has filed a complaint about her harassment: Imane Khelif files legal complaint for harassment over gender controversy
I read something that resonated with me: ALL athletes who can compete at Olympic levels are genetically different from the average person: Michael Phelps has a HUGE “wingspan” and a streamlined body. Power lifters have muscles the average person will never be able to build. Gymnasts have both flexibility and strength that the average person just doesn’t have.
There’s a video on Youtube that’s a couple years old, of a Belgian woman shot-putter who stepped in to do hurdles when her team’s hurdlers were too injured to compete. She’s a great shot-putter, but if you compare her bodytype to the bodytype of the hurdlers, there was no comparison; it was like comparing a mountain to a whippet. She competed cleanly, but the other competitors were long past the finish line while she was still gingerly stepped across the hurdles. Her strong, tall, heavily-muscled body was the product of her genes and her training. None of the hurdlers could have hefted a shot put the way she does. They’re genetics are different.
I notice there’s not a lot of hullaballoo about Britney Griner–who looks like a man, talks like a man, is taller than other women.
It’s all bullshit Kristjan, I would point you to Lauren Jackson, greatest Aussie Basketballer, like, 3 meters tall, might as well be part of the Avengers, how is it fair that she plays women’s sport?
Yes. These people are all extraordinaire and that is what people want. We don’t want to see a bunch of people who we feel that we could beat.