All Eyes on Women’s Olympic Boxing

And a few updates concerning Title IX Litigation

August 4, 2024

On July 27, the feminist publication Reduxx broke the news that two male athletes were scheduled to compete in women’s Olympic boxing. The male boxers are Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan. I published a free and shareable post called “Male Violence Against Women is Now an Olympic Sport” a few days later.

Since then, the following events have transpired. 

On Thursday, August 1, Khelif beat Italian boxer Angela Carini. Carini forfeited 46 seconds into the match after Khelif punched her square in the face. Carini tearfully reported in a press conference afterward that she had “never felt a punch like this.”

Photo: New York Post

Photo: Salon

Evidently not content with punching her in the face on a global stage, he appeared to go out of his way to touch her breast.

Carini refused to shake his hand and exclaimed “It’s not fair! It’s not fair!” She later apologized. Referring to the apology, author Helen Joyce said on X, “I hate these forced apologies more than anything. I know several women who have made them and the bullying in every case was so bad as to be life-changingly traumatising. They do more psychological damage than any other part of it.” I could not agree with her more. I’m grateful to The Free Press for covering the story, quoting me, and linking my book, The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls.

His win over Carini earned him a spot in the quarter-finals, which he won on Saturday, beating Hungarian boxer Anna Luca Hamori, 5-0. 

Photo: Axios

Now he heads to the semi-finals on Tuesday, facing Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand. 

As for Lin, he beat Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan on Friday and Svetlana Staneva of Bulgaria earlier today, advancing to the semi-finals.

This is him beating Turdibekova on Friday:

Photo: Daily Mail

Feminists all over the world have been screaming about this for days, but naturally, the International Olympic Committee can’t be bothered to care.

(Mara Yamauchi, author of the above tweet) is a British world champion marathon runner.)

Lin beat Staneva 5-0 earlier today, and Staneva did an astonishing thing: She protested by making an X gesture with her index fingers.

As author (and co-founder of Reduxx) Geneviève Gluck  said on Facebook:

This XX gesture from Svetlana Staneva after Lin Yu-ting, an XY opponent, unfairly defeated her is iconic.

There's been a lot of controversy over the male boxers at the #ParisOlympics, but in every situation the women have been brave, honest, and dignified.

There's nothing hateful about protecting women's sports.

#SaveWomensSports

Readers may (understandably) be confused about whether these athletes are, in fact, male, because the media has generally done an outstanding job of insisting they’re female. The argument is that they are female because their birth certificates and passports both list them as female. But it’s not true. To really understand what is going on here, I recommend an outstanding article titled “XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: the Paris 2024 Controversy Explained” by Doriane Coleman, the Thomas L. Perkins Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law School and a specialist in interdisciplinary scholarship focused on women, children, medicine, sports, and law.

In any event, Khelief and Lin are in different weight classes and according to reports, “Boxing awards two bronze medals in each weight class, which means every semifinalist wins a medal.” Since both have advanced to the semi-finals in their weight classes, both have now clinched medals. No matter what happens in the semi-finals or finals, two Olympic women’s boxing medals will go to men and four female athletes’ hopes for medals are dashed.

Meanwhile, stateside, what’s going on with Title IX litigation? Did the Title IX rule changes announced earlier this year take effect on August 1 as planned? 

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