France calls new Olympic gender testing 'backward step'

The IOC announced on Thursday that only 'biological females' will be allowed to compete in women's events, preventing transgender women from competing.

Le Monde
@alice Preparing the popcorn for the backlash when they'll realise that the people it'll impact at 100% are cis women.

@transcendentempress @alice

Ahem, that Algerian fighter (Imane Khelif*) is fucking cis.

Her father had to show her birth certificate to the world to prove she is and always has been a girl.

Angela Carini can suck it. I don't care if I'm Italian too, she's a shame for my country, she's a shame for the whole Italian military corps.

* thank you, @linuxandyarn I've edited my post

@anominominominous @transcendentempress @alice And the whole controversy over Imane Khelif began because of sour grapes and Russian corruption.
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-khelif-russia-boxing-b53b1edda21139d14a572bd35ca440e6
Imane Khelif outcry fueled by banned boxing body with Russia ties

The allegations that Olympic boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting failed an eligibility test for women's competition have been made by only the International Boxing Association. That's also the only governing body that has ever been completely banished from the Olympics. The entire boxing world has already learned to expect almost anything from the Russian-dominated organization, whose untransparent tests have been seized upon by those criticizing the female boxers amid wider clashes about gender regulations and perceptions in sports. The IOC has decades of bad history with the beleaguered governing body, and it has exasperatedly begged non-boxing people to pay attention to the sole source of the allegations against Khelif and Lin.

AP News