Men Beating Up Women for Medals

Why Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are men, and the 3 things the IOC did to promote violence against women

Are we really surprised that two men are now beating up on women at the boxing in Paris?

The International Olympic Committee did three things that meant this was always gong to happen.

First, they abolished sex testing in favour of athletes self-identifying.

Second, they prioritised inclusion over fairness as their guiding principle.

And third, they issued journalists covering the games with strict speech guides designed to obfuscate over the issue of sex.

Let me run through these one by one and you’ll see that this controversy is entirely of the IOC’s own making …