ChiGoose

Almost certainly. I would wager that a significant number of Americans believe she is trans. My parents are in town visiting and they brought this up, shocked that the IOC would allow a transgender person fight women. You just ask a couple of questions and it’s clear that people don’t actually look into things; they read the headline and base their opinion on it.

It is validating to watch the “what is a woman” crowd attack a woman who was born a woman, who struggled to train because her dad didn’t think women should box, and whose opponent believed she is a woman, all in the name of protecting women. Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t about actually protecting women.

Imane Khelif gender eligibility test, explained: Why IOC doesn't recognize 'sudden and arbitrary' disqualification from IBA World Championship “IBA president Umar Kremlev said Khelif was "proven" to have XY chromosomes, which sparked outrage throughout the sports world and beyond. XY chromosomes indicate that an individual is male. However, certain conditions can allow a woman to present XY chromosomes. It remains unconfirmed which condition Khelif might have, if any at all. However, the IBA has an ongoing dispute with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The organization is banned from the Olympics, and some believe Kremlev is less than trustworthy due to the dispute with the IOC. There is no indication Khelif is transgender. That would raise entirely different ethics concerns about her Olympic eligibility, but she has never identified as anything other than a woman, and there is no indication that she identifies as intersex, either. “

Thanks, did not realize that.

Shocking number from Rasmussen

The fun thing about conspiracy theories is that no matter how things turn out, they can always find a way to fit it into the theory.

Looks like Musk created a PAC that targets Trump voters in swing states and tricks them into thinking they registered to vote when they actually had not. How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election “The website says it will help the viewer register to vote. But once a user clicks “Register to Vote,” the experience he or she will have can be very different, depending on where they live. If a user lives in a state that is not considered competitive in the presidential election, like California or Wyoming for example, they’ll be prompted to enter their email addresses and zip code and then directed quickly to a voter registration page for their state, or back to the original sign up section. But for users who enter a zip code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, the process is very different. Rather than be directed to their state’s voter registration page, they instead are directed to a highly detailed personal information form, prompted to enter their address, cell phone number, and age. If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page. So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation.”

Tommy Eyeroll follows a script so closely you could probably just replace them with a bot that randomly responds with posts about talking points, scripts, and “MSM”. Nobody would notice.

Who is Italian boxer Angela Carini and why did she quit her fight against Imane Khelif? ““All this controversy makes me sad,” Carini said. “I’m sorry for my opponent, too. … If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision.” Carini was apologetic for not shaking Khelif’s hand after the bout. “It wasn’t something I intended to do,” Carini said. “Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke. I don’t have anything against Khelif. Actually, if I were to meet her again I would embrace her.””

Making fun of people for dumbly believing that a woman is a man because they have no idea what they are talking about doesn’t seem inconsistent with arguing that the government shouldn’t be the body to make those kinds of decisions about sports.

Biden’s not dead, he was just traveling back in time to 1999 Algeria to convince Imane Khelif’s parents to pretend he was a girl his entire life. And to bribe the doctors who delivered him to mark the birth certificate as a girl (since being LGBT is illegal, they wouldn’t be able to change it later). This way, Khalif would be able to become a female boxer and punch an Italian in the face in the name of wokeness.

I cannot imagine how great this was for Evan or his mom

The one put in place during COVID cut the monthly child poverty rate by 30% before it was allowed to expire.

I’d leave it up to the governing bodies of the sport, not the actual government. If they want to set a criteria about testosterone levels, hormones, sex at birth, etc, that seems reasonable. And since it wouldn’t be mandated by the actual government, if people didn’t like the way that one body of sport defined it, they could go to (or even create) a different one with different specifications.

There’s no evidence she was born a man and transitioned. She likely has elevated testosterone (not uncommon in female athletes) or possibly a rare condition. But that hasn’t stopped some people from attacking a cis-woman for not meeting their expectations.

Some people are so upset about trans people that they'll label a woman trans just because it fits their narrative... J.K. Rowling Invents A Trans Olympian To Get Mad At Despite the obnoxious bluster from the right that the growing visibility of trans women in public life would end women's sports as we know it, the Olympics have been yet again dominated by cis athletes. Lacking a talented target for their rage, but needing fuel for the only subject they ever talk about, the commentators most obsessed with trans women have turned their attention to the Algerian female boxer Imane Khelif. Khelif is not trans. This is evident because, according to the IOC, her passport lists her as female, which is something that the extraordinarily repressive Algerian laws would not allow if she were trans. She was, however, disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships because tests showed she had XY chromosomes, which is possible for cis women with certain conditions. Khelif made it to the quarterfinals of the 2020 Olympics, where she was defeated by Kellie Harrington, without incident, and she has been boxing on the international circuit for years without any of her wins or defeats gaining much attention. But her fight against Angela Carini on Thursday made her a magnet for some truly disgusting hate. Carini quit the fight after just 46 seconds, claiming that Khelif's punches hurt too much for her to continue. As a result, Khelif became an immediate villain for those just itching for a trans controversy. Lots and lots of people are out there making unhinged statements about Khelif's anatomy, but this post from the world's most famous bigot, J.K. Rowling, is truly stunning for the way a supposed feminist so eagerly calls a cis woman "he" based simply on the way she looks and the effect of years of brain-rotting propaganda. Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/Q5SbKiksXQ — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 1, 2024 The Olympics, like all sports, are about celebrating the most awe-inspiring humans (or horses) for both their physical and mental superiority. Essentially any athlete who succeeds at this level is going to wield some difference that sets them apart from the rest of the competition, that shatters the life's ambitions of their opponents. When those athletes are men, we celebrate them unconditionally. But athletes like Khelif or Brittney Griner or Caster Semenya or Lia Thomas, when they excel, have to endure their femininity getting picked apart by freaks. In response to discussions about the complication of gender—the fact that no one trait is going to be shared by every man or woman in the world—the right loves to sneeringly ask "What is a woman?" with the implication that they can explain it straightforwardly and the left can't. But if they're going to narrow their definition so much that a cis woman with a difference only revealed through DNA tests instantly loses her claim to womanhood, it's hard to believe "woman" signifies anything to them besides "a means for oppression."

Good opportunity to help kids, make it easier for people to have kids, and pass a bipartisan bill that soared through the House 357-70. Let’s see how the “pro-family” GOP came out for it:

I agree that it’s unfortunate that the complete and utterly disastrous handling of the 9/11 perpetrators prevented them from ever seeing trial.

That can’t be possible since Trump assured us that only he could free Gershkovich…

So they are now claiming that someone born female in a country where being trans is illegal has actually secretly been a guy the whole time?

Even while dead, Joe Biden can bring hostages home. Pretty impressive!