Friday, August 02, 2024

The gender controversy sweeping Olympic boxing

 https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-5061280/olympic-womens-boxing-gender-imane-khelif-lin-yuting

People are of all kinds of weights, sizes, genders and backgrounds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/boxer-gender-controversy-olympics-lin-yu-ting-rcna164843

However, its long been established that there has to be a weight_class_in_boxing.

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-imane-khelif-boxing-paris-2eb07d442ffb29a61e09911884dcdaa9

https://www.britannica.com/sports/boxing/Weight-divisions

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/imane-khelif-boxing-angela-carini-lin-yuting-b2589623.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_class_(boxing)#Amateur_boxing

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/01/olympic-gender-testing-boxers/74615354007/

DNA and ones physical structure might also become part of a person's category.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/imane-khelif-boxing-win-olympics-gender-eligibility-rcna164662

https://olympics.com/ioc/news/joint-paris-2024-boxing-unit-ioc-statement

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/olympics/boxer-quits-gender-angela-carini-imane-khelif.html

https://www.vox.com/sports/364856/olympics-boxing-imane-khelif-angela-carini


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/caitlyn-jenner-boxing-controversy-olympics-shame-ioc 

WB_Jenner was a grate young athlete. WB_Jenner#Post-Olympic_career WB Jenner went on to have a fantastic pretrans life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner#Gender_transition Eventually, it was time for CM_Jenner to enter into a new phase of life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner#LGBT_community


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octuple_champion Some people have fought in various weight classifications. Weight, size, shape and DNA, people are a dynamic life form.

cisgender and a pretrans person could be in one athletic category. Then a transgender athlete might be in another category. The challenge is to try to match up the best similar opponents as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTI_Olympians_and_Paralympians

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/996319297/gender-identity-pronouns-expression-guide-lgbtq 


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