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NEW: Trump Reacts To Olympic Controversy: “Insane And Unfair Reality”
Neither the White House nor Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign offered any statements regarding their stance on biologically males competing against biological females in the Olympics. This came after Thursday’s fight where Italian boxer Angela Carini faced off against Algeria’s Imane Khelif, ending abruptly when Carini, a biological female, was knocked out within the first minute.
The fight lasted just 46 seconds and ended after Carini was overpowered by Khelif, who had previously failed a gender test but was still allowed to compete in the women’s division. This led to more calls for a boycott of the Olympic Games, with many citing it as a clear example of the unfair advantages that can occur when biological men are permitted to compete in women’s sports.
After, former President Donald Trump and his campaign wasted no time denouncing the left amid the escalating controversy. “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!” Trump wrote on Thursday on Truth Social.
“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,” said a Trump campaign spokesperson to Fox News. “When he returns to the White House, President Trump will take immediate action to protect women and girls and overturn the Harris-Biden Administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX.”
After absorbing several powerful punches from the Algerian fighter, Carini retreated to her corner where she informed her coach that her nose hurt too much to continue. A ref waved the fight over and the Italian boxer kneeled down in the ring in defeat. “She’s too strong,” Renzini recalled Carini telling him, according to Yahoo! Sports. In a heartbreaking scrum with reporters 20 minutes after the fight, Carini apologized to her nation for failing to last more than a minute. “I had entered the ring to fight,” Carini said in Italian after. “I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I go out with my head held high.”
The match prompted outcries from prominent swimmer and women’s sports activist Riley Gaines, among others. “Men don’t belong in women’s sports #IStandWithAngelaCarini” wrote the former University of Kentucky swimmer on X.
Men don't belong in women's sports #IStandWithAngelaCarini
Let's get it trending 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ljlJJwE0hM
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 1, 2024
Even pro-trans sports activists were shocked at the outcome, criticizing the Olympics for allowing the match to go forward. “Once again I will start with the disclaimer that I have compassion for anyone who is transitioning, is trans or is suffering from gender dysphoria,” wrote entrepreneur Jason Calacanis on X. “What we are seeing at the Olympics is insane. They should restart this competition and remove the biological males. This is profoundly unfair and extremely dangerous. Someone will be killed.”
“And to the person who is a biological male and insists on competing with this massive advantage, I question your ethics and morality.”
Once again I will start with the disclaimer that I have compassion for anyone who is transitioning, is trans or is suffering from gender dysphoria.
What we are seeing at the Olympics is insane. They should restart this competition and remove the biological males.
This is… https://t.co/k1rIXh9XAn
— @jason (@Jason) August 1, 2024
Both Khalief and Chinese Tapei’s Lin Yu‑ting controversially entered the women’s division as biological men despite previous disqualifications in the sport. During last year’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, Khelif was disqualified after the International Boxing Association ruled that fighters with XY chromosomes would no longer be allowed to fight against biological women. Yu-Ting was disqualified from a bronze medal fight during the same competition. Since then, the International Olympic Committee has stripped the IBA of its status as the sport’s governing body and operated under more relaxed rules established by the IOC’s Paris 2024 Boxing Unit.
IOC spokesperson Mark Adams deflected when asked about whether the committee bears any responsibility for the outcome of the match. “I would just say that everyone competing in the women’s category is complying with the competition eligibility rules. They are women in their passports,” he told the news outlet. “These athletes competed many times before for many years,” Adams added. “They didn’t just suddenly arrive.”
The IBA countered that it undertook a “meticulous review” of fighters’ qualifications before last year’s international championship. “While IBA remains committed to ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we express concern over the inconsistent application of eligibility criteria by other sporting organizations, including those overseeing the Olympic Games,” the IBA said in its statement. “The IOC’s differing regulations on these matters, in which IBA is not involved, raise serious questions about both competitive fairness and athletes’ safety.”
Former boxer Ryan Garcia was apoplectic. “Now men who turned themselves into woman. Can fight woman in the Olympics. Boycott the Olympics this trans s*** is getting way outta fucking hand. Ain’t no way a man should be beating up on a woman,” he wrote on X.
Now men who turned themselves into woman
Can fight woman in the Olympics
You gotta be fucking kidding me
Boycott the Olympics this trans shit is getting way outta fucking hand
Ain’t no way a man should be beating up on a woman
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) July 30, 2024
Best-selling author John LeFevre tied Vice President Kamala Harris to the melee and suggested she would support overhauls of Title IX laws to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports at all levels. Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) raged as well, writing, “The consequence of the insane trans ideology is on full display at the Olympics: biological men pretending to be women beating up female boxers, with full IOC approval. In the name of equality, they are putting actual women in danger.”
Kamala Harris supports this…
Vote accordingly.
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) August 1, 2024
The consequence of the insane trans ideology is on full display at the Olympics: biological men pretending to be women beating up female boxers, with full IOC approval. In the name of equality, they are putting actual women in danger.https://t.co/VD78ukULUL
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) August 1, 2024
Everyone is expressing outrage, but this was Angela Carini's response to being forced to fight a man at the Olympics.
None of this changes until *this* changes. pic.twitter.com/NIbShapr9A
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 1, 2024
(FREE RED HAT: “Impeached. Arrested. Convicted. Shot. Still Standing”)