While I’m using this issue to have fun with a cartoon, there’s another aspect to this I want to write about and that is just how vile some people are being about it
You have to be a real lowlife cretin to slander someone over their gender out of total ignorance to advance yourself politically. What happened to softening the rhetoric?
If it’s so awful for a man to hit a woman, then men like Donald Trump, JD Vance, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, J.K. Rowling (OK, that’s a woman), Elon Musk, Logan Paul, and every male on Fox News should stop hitting a woman. Do you not get the irony in this?
This all started in the Olympics which so far has offended conservatives by supposedly mocking the Last Supper and now with supposedly allowing a man box in the women's division. We’ve barely made it through the first week so there’s plenty of time to find new outrages.
Imane Khelif is a female boxer competing for Algeria who knocked out Italy’s Angela Carini in 46 seconds in a preliminary round. Carini fell to her knees sobbing and bloodied. She refused to shake hands with Khelif, which she apologized for later. She said, “I have never been hit so hard in my life.” That doesn’t mean Khelif is not a woman.
Now, troglodytes are claiming Imane Khelif, and fellow Olympics competitor Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, are men. Khelif and Lin are women and have long competed as women, but they were both disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA).
The IBA says both boxers failed “unspecified” gender ability tests. The International Olympic Committee [IOC] does not conduct tests for XY chromosomes or elevated levels of testosterone, and said in a statement that the current “aggression” against the two female athletes is based entirely on the “arbitrary decision” from the IBA which was taken without any “proper procedure.”
The IBA released a statement last week saying that Khelif and Lin “did not undergo a testosterone examination” when they were banned last year, but were subject to “separate and recognized” tests that will remain confidential.
IBA president Umar Kremlev told the Russian news agency Tass that the pair were disqualified from the world championships because “it was proven they have XY chromosomes.”
Let’s take a deeper look at the IBA. Umar Kremlev is corrupt which the IOC has recognized and is why it banned the IBA. Kremlev has used IBA funds to market himself, moved much of the organization’s operations to Russia, made a Russian state-owned energy company the IBA’s sole sponsor, suspended Ukraine from the IBA, and canceled an election that challenged his presidency. No wonder his statement was to a Russian-owned propaganda outlet.
Everyone claiming these two female boxers are men is using disinformation from a Russia-associated organization. For the slow kids in the back (MAGAts), you can not trust any information that comes out of Russia.
The Algerian Olympic Committee said the reaction is, “unethical targeting" and "baseless propaganda." They are correct.
Carini later apologized and said, “All this controversy makes me sad [...] I'm sorry for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision."
The disinformation continues. A spokesgoon for Donald Trump said, “President Trump has been unequivocally clear that he will NOT stand for men competing in women's sports—an insane and unfair reality that has been allowed to transpire because of Radical Left politicians like Kamala Harris.”
Maybe the Trump Campaign’s spokesperson, whose name, should be tested to make sure she’s a real woman.
For that matter, can we go ahead and test, Melania and Ivanka? Hell, let’s test Donald Trump Jr. I read somewhere that facial hair can be a side effect of testosterone medication. Hell, let’s test Laura Loomer, not to see if she’s female but human. Let’s start a rumor she’s a shaved Sasquatch who was brainwashed by the MAGA cult. Sorry to malign the dignity of all Sasquatches. I wasn’t being fair.
Trump’s spokesgoon went on to blame Vice President Kamala Harris for Kheliff competing in the Olympics. She, or he, said, “President Trump has been unequivocally clear that he will NOT stand for men competing in women's sports—an insane and unfair reality that has been allowed to transpire because of Radical Left politicians like Kamala Harris.”
“When he returns to the White House (sic), President (sic) Trump will take immediate action to protect women and girls and overturn the Harris-Biden administration's radical rewrite of Title IX.”
You learn something new every day. Who knew that the president and vice president could control who competed in Algerian and Olympic boxing?
Trump claims he wants to protect women and girls, but neither he nor his campaign has ever said anything about protecting trans individuals. Here’s a fun fact for goons: Trans are people too and they deserve the same human and civil rights as everyone else. They should not be labeled as bad people. And while we’re on that gaslighting, neither should immigrants.
An IOC spokesperson said, “I repeat that all the competitors comply with the eligibility rules. But what I would say is that this involves real people,” he said. “And, by the way, this is not a transgender issue. I should make this absolutely clear.”
It is weird that after claiming they were abused, persecuted, and violated by the “Last Supper” bullshit, these white Christians go on to abuse, persecute, and violate a woman with lies about her being a man. It doesn’t hurt to repeat it….she is not a man.
Italy awards its gold medal winners $196,000. Lauren Boebert has now distracted herself from all the hard work she’s doing as a member of Congress to create an online fundraiser for Carini that’s so far raised $60,000, which I’ll be surprised if Carini ever sees. I suspect it’s another Republican grift and I bet we won’t hear any more about the fundraiser after the Olympics.
I’ve been doing this for a long time and I know for a fact that goons have gotta goon.
Boebert also blamed Vice President Harris, posting on Twitter/X, “The people are FED UP with men in women's sports. I sure hope Kamala Harris is taking notice. She's supported this BS from day one and still does. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”
The match Carini was competing in when Khalef knocked her out was not a medal match. It was in the preliminary rounds. There’s no telling if she was going to win a gold medal…or any medal. If you want a fair competition then isn’t it hypocritical to award her the winning fee?
And what happened to Republican’s arguments for privacy? What gives you the right to test a woman who might appear too masculine to you? But then again, this is the party that thinks Donald Trump should be allowed to rape and grab women “by the pussy.”
This is more discrimination by the party of discrimination. They have wrongly assumed based upon Russian state-owned disinformation that a woman is a man. This is appealing to a base of hate.
By the way, you don’t see an Adam’s Apple on Donald Trump’s neck but to be fair, it could be covered by flappy neck fat.
By the way, I can’t wait to watch Kamala Harris, a woman, knock the fuck out of Donald Trump, a man, in November.
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I really, really hate people sometimes for all of the cruelty they can muster up. It seems it doesn't take them much to 'muster' it, actually. Thanks for this great cartoon and commentary - as usual, Clay, you get to the heart of things! I love the sippy cup words today, altho it gave me quite a coughing fit as I lay here trying to recover from a miserable bout of COVID.
J. K. Rowling?