Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
Who would have thought that in 2024 we would be able to watch women getting battered by blokes on live TV ??
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
Thank goodess I got out of it all years ago in my days I would not allowed a lady in the ring and box a man never.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,025
It was topsy-turvy from the off.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
The Italian Angela Carini is crying her eyes out in the ring.
She decides not to continue after being hit hard twice by the Algerian Imane Khelif.
Fight lasted 46 seconds.
First punched knocked her chin strap off and she was holding her nose.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13697397/Boxer-Imane-Khelif-cleared-compete-Olympics-despite-deemed-biologically-male-leaves-Italian-opponent-tears-fight-abandoned.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
I say no more
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
Having just watched the fight clip if that boxer is now a completely genuine transgender woman I will be very surprised.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,239
Jan Higgins wrote:Having just watched the fight clip if that boxer is now a completely genuine transgender woman I will be very surprised.
He's not Jan he is just a bloke in a dress who identifies as female.
The IOC don't test for gender they go with what it says on the passport ffs!
Arte et Marte
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,025
Well, you can't 'test for gender', given that gender is pretty much anything you want it to be. [I mean, how would it go? 'But are you really a cat?' 'MEEEeow.' 'OK, that's a pass'.]
But you can test for sex.
Which is why 'sex' is no longer an option on official documents.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
They might not be able to test for gender but they can check hormone levels over a suitable agreed time (several years) and how the body image has changed etc.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,025
Maybe. But why would a progressive organisation do this?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
