Olympic boxing’s gender controversy: Letters

The Problem: Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif’s defeat of Italian boxer Angela Carini amid a gender controversy.

Concerning the ladies’s boxing horror present in Paris: The story of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is extra sophisticated than The Submit describes it (“Equity takes a woke beating,” Aug. 2).

Khelif, who has lived her life figuring out as a feminine, was disqualified from the World Championships by the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation in 2022 and 2023 for failing gender checks. Nonetheless, the IBA has not disclosed what these checks have been, nor the situations below which they got. Moreover, the Worldwide Olympic Committee doesn’t acknowledge these checks.

Regardless, one thing needs to be completed to safeguard females on the Olympics. That is extra essential than avoiding damage emotions, as it’s only a matter of time earlier than some poor lady or lady athlete is maimed or doubtlessly killed by a organic male.

Stuart Ellison

Brooklyn

Let’s clear issues up, as there are numerous transphobia tropes being unfold: Khelif shouldn’t be a transgender athlete.

Khelif was born — and has spent her total life — as a feminine.

To not point out, many ladies have elevated ranges of testosterone, and loads of situations by which organic females are born with XY chromosomes. Khelif, if something, is probably going an intersex lady.

And he or she has been cleared to compete in girls’s boxing as a result of she is exactly that — a girl.

George Markos

Eatontown, NJ

There’s a pervasive wokeism that’s hurting the Olympics.

The competitors will seemingly, over time, proceed to incorporate people who might need a genetic or hormonal benefit over girls. I consider individuals with any potential hormonal benefit needs to be banned from taking part as females.

Don’t even get me began on people who merely determine as feminine. It’s unhappy that the burden now lies on girls, as a bunch, to have a stronger voice and stance on this difficulty as a result of the smaller, louder voices in society are successful this match.

Amy Hendel

Manhattan

Assist me perceive relating to Khelif’s pounding of Italian boxer Angela Carini. Do the gender-affirming left and feminist cheering squads now approve of seemingly intersex individuals like Khelif beating up different feminine boxers?

Paul O’Keefe

Union Metropolis, NJ

As a result of Khelif’s passport says she is a girl, that was sufficient for the Worldwide Olympic Committee to permit her to compete in a boxing match in opposition to a girl.

It’s a travesty for athletes who’ve educated most of their lives to compete on the Olympics, solely to face an unfair competitor who has been allowed to compete to keep away from hurting their emotions.

Bo Madden

Jupiter, Fla.

The Paris Olympics will likely be remembered for 2 highlights: The drag queens on the opening ceremony, and the presumably intersex boxer who, because the Olympic Committee additionally asserts, is recognized as a feminine.

Hans Sander

Gordon, Australia

It appears as if individuals with a sixth-grade science schooling are making choices on who’s allowed to compete within the Olympics.

Miles Kuttler

Aventura, Fla.

The Worldwide Olympic Committee is an absolute shame.

Watching the Italian group’s boxer get overwhelmed to the purpose that the younger lady give up combating after a mere 46 seconds was horrible.

Worse nonetheless, if she had continued to attempt to combat, she might have risked severe — if not important — damage.

And watching the IOC attempt to justify this travesty was abominable. Is the IOC actually prepared to get a feminine boxer killed within the ring in service of a woke ideology?

Apparently, it’s — and that’s despicable.

Robert DiNardo

Farmingdale

I’ve two causes to not watch the Paris Olympics: This yr’s opening ceremony desecrated The Final Supper, and Khelif beat Carini.

Charles Prignano

Colorado Springs, Colo.