Women and Olympic Boxing? The problem in having a fixed position is it's sometimes hard to also square it with fairness and facts. I'm already in receipt of multiple meme jokes at the expense of the controversy over the inclusion of Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif in the women’s boxing competition. The media (news and social) is having a field day stirring up clickbait about trans hate or fairness for women in sport. The inconvenient reality to deal with is both Lin Yu and Khelif were born women. They are women and have done their sports for years. They do not appear to be drug cheats. They appear to have genetic chromosome differences, so they have more testosterone. Only recently has this become a concern. Whilst clearly this is complicated and the handling of the issue by Olympics boxing is more than poor, neither female athletes from birth have done anything wrong. Before one makes a joke, shares a meme, or passes a comment - this article from the Guardian is worth a read. https://lnkd.in/e2FDBUia
What? Aren't we supposed to have deeply held and passionately expressed opinions based on nothing but ignorance? Isn't that the modern way?
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2moThe Media that initially reported the story should be ashamed of themselves … inferring that Khelif was transgender feeding the anti woke crowd. But reading the comments it’s also eye opening how many people don’t read the articles and are still willing to espouse their mis-informed views.