By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2024-12-05 17:17:27 | Updated at 2024-12-26 00:38:57
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Algeria's Imane Khelif (in red) during the women's 66kg preliminary round match against Angela Carini of Italy (in blue) on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena on August 1, 2024, in Paris, France.
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The backlash to gender extremism continues: More than 40,000 athletes, women and activists have signed a petition for the International Olympic Committee to keep biological men out of women’s sports.
The petition notes that “governments and organizational bodies like the IOC have adopted policies that allow males who identify as female to compete in women’s sports.”
Indeed, the Paris Olympics just saw two boxers, Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, win gold medals in women’s boxing — despite having been previously disqualified on gender grounds.
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting preapres to fight Turkey’s Esra Yildiz in their women’s 57 kg semifinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. APIOC prez Thomas Bach voiced support for them, which makes IOC leadership more extreme-left than the United Nations on the issue.
Yes: It was Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, who released the report that women have lost close to 900 medals across 29 different sports to biological males.
It’s obscene that this even needs to be discussed: All available scientific evidence shows clearly that men enjoy massive strength and size advantages over women.
That’s true even at the high school and college level: UPenn’s Lia Thomas was an utter mediocrity competing in the men’s swimming division, only to win a national championship when competing against women.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif reacts after beating Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in the women’s 66kg semi-final boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 6, 2024. AFP via Getty ImagesThat’s all the evidence any sane person would need.
Happily, one challenger to replace Bach at the IOC, Sebastian Coe — a legendary runner and a gold medallist for his native England — has made it very clear where he stands.
He’s promised to introduce an “uncompromising and clearcut” policy to save women’s sports from the gender jihadists if elected in March.
Given the turn away from gender radicalism seen across Europe, Coe looks to have a shot — a good one, if petition is any indication.
His victory would represent a major win for women and girls everywhere — and for sanity over ideology.
Everyone not totally brainwormed by gender madness should sign the IOC petition, now, and keep the heat on ’til reality triumphs.
