The Issue: Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif’s defeat of Italian boxer Angela Carini amid a gender controversy.
Regarding the women’s boxing horror show in Paris: The story of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is more complicated than The Post describes it (“Fairness takes a woke beating,” Aug. 2).
Khelif, who h🎶as lived her life identifying as a female, was disqualified from the World Championships by the International Boxing Association in 2022 and 2023 for failing gender tests. However, the IBA has not disclosed what those tests were, nor the conditions under which they were given. Furthermor🍌e, the International Olympic Committee does not recognize those tests.
Regardless, something should be done to safeguard females at the Olympics. 𒐪This is more important than avoiding hurt feelings, as it is only a🉐 matter of time before some poor girl or woman athlete is maimed or potentially killed by a biological male.
Stuart Ellison
Brooklyn
Let’s clear things up, as there are many 𒈔transphobia tropes being spread: Khelif is not🦄 a transgender athlete.
Khelif was born —🔴 and has spent her e🅠ntire life — as a female.
Not to mention, many women have elevated levels of tꦯestosterone, and pl♑enty of conditions in which biological females are born with XY chromosomes. Khelif, if anything, is likely an intersex woman.
And she has been cleared to compete in women’s boxing because she is preci🐬sely that — a woman.
George Markos
Eatontown, NJ
There is 🌞a pervasive wokeism that 𒆙is hurting the Olympics.
The competition will likely, over time, continue to include individuals who might have a genetic or hormonal advantage over women. I believe participants with any pos💎sible hormonal advantage should be banned from participating as females.
Don’t even get me started on individuals who simply identify as female. It 𝔍is sad that the burden now lies on women, as a group, t⛄o have a stronger voice and stance on this issue because the smaller, louder voices in society are winning this match.
Amy Hendel
Manhattan
Help me understand regarding Khelif’s pounding of Italian boxer Angela Carini. Do the gender-affirming left🎀 and feminist cheering squads now approve of seemingly intersex people like Khelif beating up other female boxers?
Paul O’Keefe
Union City, NJ
Because Khelif’s passport says she is a woman, that was enough for the International Olympic Committee to allo🦩w her to compete in a boxing match against a woman.
It is a travesty for athletes who have trained most o🀅f their lives to compete at the Olympics, only to face an unfair competitor who has been allowed to compete to avoid hurting their feelings.
Bo Madden
Jupiter, Fla.
The Paris Olympics will be remembered for two highlights: The drag queens at the opening ceremony, and the presumably intersex boxer ꦗwho, as the Olympic Committee also asserts, is identified as a female.
Hans Sander
Gordon, Australia
It seems as if people with a sixth-grade science education are making decisions𝄹 on who is a🍎llowed to compete in the Olympics.
Miles Kuttler
Aventura, Fla.
The International Olympic Committee is an absolute dꦗisgrace.
Watching the I☂talian team’s boxer get beaten to the point that the young w✱oman quit fighting after a mere 46 seconds was terrible.
Worse still, if she had continued to try to fight, she could have risked serious — if not crit🍌ical — injury.
And watching the IOC try and justify this travesty was abominabl꧂e. Is the IOC really willing to get a female boxer killed in the ring in service of a woke ideology?
Apparently, it is — and that is despicable.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
I have two reasons not to watch the Paris Olympics: This year’s opening ceremon𝔍y desecrated The Last Supper, and Khelif beat Carini.
Charles Prignano
Colorado Springs, Colo.