William Lindsey Aug 4, 2024

An aspect of the Imane Khelif brouhaha that deserves careful attention is the role that the Russian International Boxing Association played in setting up the conditions for the transphobic outrage that we've witnessed.

it's well-documented that Khelif was raised female, considered female in the very conservative, anti-LGBTQ culture of Algeria, and has always competed as a female boxer.

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-boxer-imane-khelif-anti-trans-rcna164721

Why the anti-trans right is attacking two female Olympic boxers

Conservative politicians, including former President Donald Trump, and other anti-trans voices such as author JK Rowling accused Imanf Khelif of being a man.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 4, 2024

All of a sudden, last year, the Russian IBA demanded that she and Lin Yu-ting be gender-tested, and released highly dubious reports questioning their gender identity, refusing to disclose how they were tested and what their tests actually showed.

Cue the hard right when the Olympics got underway this year: the Russian group had prepped the hard right for outrage focusing on Khelif, and the hard right did not disappoint.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 4, 2024

It's as if this was all set up by Russian puppet masters who want to inflame transphobia and hysteria over gender matters globally and especially in Western democracies, to keep people divided, angry, ignorant — and many folks willingly comply and dance to the Russian tune, as we've seen in spades this past week. The US "religious right" is like putty in the hands of Putin.

And J.K. Rowling has shown us all over again exactly who she is.

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Aug 4, 2024 at 12:31pmWeb