Algerian Imane Khelif wins boxing gold medal after her gender was wrongly questioned

I like to think that I'm a better critical thinker than most, but I fell for the initial news story about her being trans or intersex and the fight being unfair. Then I saw the pictures of her over the years and as a kid, and I dug deeper into what actually happened and I honestly feel dirty. I've since been unsubbing to a lot YouTubers.

Fuck every person who engaged in this shit. Lie after lie

Allez Imane!

(EDIT: Just wanted to add I have donated 10 dollars for each current downvote (7) to women's rights charities in Algeria. Thanks for supporting Algerian women's rights!) (EDIT 2: Fuck it, I added another 10 for the late downvote. Thanks for supporting Algerian women's rights!)

When I watched the video, I was shocked this even was a thing that happened.

I heard about the controversy for a while, heard some people say when they saw the fight they "understood why there was questioning", and heard something about a punch. As an avid MMA fan, I expected a scary knockout, like those where you hold your breath until you see the person start moving again.

Imagine my surprise when I finally saw the video, and watched an Olympic boxing fight for the first time. I see of them wearing headgear, one of them gets hit with a few good punches, gets to pause to adjust headgear, gets hit a few more good punches and calls off the fight without her knees ever even buckling or getting stunned, and doesn't even have a mark on her face. Perhaps the neatest, least harmful fight I've ever seen.

To be clear, I don't hold it against her for realizing she probably won't be winning and quitting before taking unnecessary damage, I'm just shocked anyone would think Imane is trans or a man based on that fight. Imagine if those people ever saw Amanda Nunes, or Dakota Ditcheva, or Zhang Weili. But I'd guess most of those people never actual watch women compete in any sports unless there is a controversy like this one, at which point they become experts.

If I'm understanding correctly the argument against her competing hinges upon a genetic test that the article provides no information for.

The evidence that she's a woman seems overwhelming. But the article doesn't provide the necessary information for an reader to understand and defeat the objection. We're not to reason for ourselves. Instead, we're to rely on ad hominem: The objection itself doesn't matter because it came from Russia. The article also ignores fallacy fallacy: There's also a very small possibility that Russia has reached the "good" conclusion for entirely "bad" reasons.

I know three things:

1. She's almost certainly a biological woman.
2. She won.
3. The author thinks you're stupid.

She basically told the transphobic bigots to fuck themselves.

Transphobia hurts literally everyone, not just transgender people. Unfortunately this statement hits a little too close to home.

I feel so sorry for this person. Dragged into the spotlight of the world where everyone's got a say about their gender, completely forgetting that they're human first.

The "for" and "against" using her are sociopathic. Nothing feels more alienating that strangers sending positive and negative things to you, like they know you.

Transphobia and misogyny hurt all of us, not just the targets of the bigotry. I hope more people understand that now.

Cue the Cool J.

Good for her. She deserves it. Hopefully she can get some rest and reprieve from the international hate campaign against her.

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Isn't she intersex?

We have regulations for just about anything but not gender in Olympics?

Olympic committee should put forward specific classification rules for woman and man in a binary sporting event.

It's a Olympic committee problem not an athlete problem. Don't let them sweep this issue under the rug.

wrongly questioned

Were the allegations actually disproven? What I've read is that the IOC chose not to investigate.