Two biological males have advanced through female competition and will compete for Olympic women’s boxing gold medals in their respective weight divisions.
The International Olympic Committee’s mission for inclusivity has put it in direct conflict with its own Olympic Charter, William Bock, general counsel for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said on American Family Radio Thursday.
Both gold medal bouts are scheduled for Saturday.
Lin Yu-Ting of Chinese Taipei competes in the featherweight division, Imane Khelif of Algeria in the welterweight division.
Their success has come “following days of online abuse and intense scrutiny about their participation at the Paris Games,” The Associated Press reports.
The male against female story line has indeed drawn a lot of attention.
It began early in the games when Italian boxer Angela Carini lasted only 46 seconds against Khelif (pictured at top) before bowing out. She said she’d “never been hit so hard in her life” and feared lasting damage if she continued.
London’s Daily Telegraph called the brief bout “one of the most shaming episodes in Olympic history.”
Carini’s case drew social media support from many well-known figures including former President Donald Trump and J.K. Rowling, author of the famed Harry Potter series.
It did not draw support from the IOC.
“The International Olympic Committee has hit a new low by sanctioning male violence against women and calling it sport,” Bock told show host Jenna Ellis.
The question is why? What does the IOC gain by emphasizing inclusivity at the risk of safety of its own participants?
They are in fact in violation of their very own rules, Bock says.
“The IOC claims that the Olympic rules are to uphold the values of fair sports that are in a document called the Olympic Charter,” he explained.
Bock then began to quote from the charter which states the first mission of the games is “to encourage and support the promotion of ethics and good governance in sport as well as education of youth through sport and to dedicate its efforts to ensuring that, in sport, the spirit of fair play prevails, and violence is banned.”
Both Lin and Khelif had been disqualified in previous world competitions by the International Boxing Association (IBA). Both boxers tested positive for XY chromosomes in 2023, and IBA officials said that would give them an unfair advantage in the women’s division.
Cleared to play with the girls in Paris
Under normal circumstances that would have prevented them from competing in the Olympics since the IOC typically allows the governing bodies of individual sports to determine eligibility.
But the IOC is in charge of boxing eligibility in Paris after stripping the IBA of its authority in 2019 for governance and regulatory issues.
The IOC also took control of boxing in the 2020 Olympics in which both Lin and Khelif participated.
The IOC slammed the IBA for its eligibility ruling against the fighters.
“These two athletes were the victims of a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA. Towards the end of the IBA World Championships in 2023, they were suddenly disqualified without any due process,” officials of the IOC and Paris Olympics said in a joint statement at the beginning of the games. “The current aggression against these two athletes is based entirely on this arbitrary decision, which was taken without any proper procedure – especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years.”
Bock disagrees.
“What you have are two individuals who are male. They have XY chromosomes. They almost certainly have an active SRY gene which is the gene on the Y chromosome that creates testes and produces male levels of testosterone,” he said.
There are rare instances of genetic abnormalities that could cause male levels of testosterone not to appear in testing.
“That’s clearly not happening here,” Bock said. “It's observable. You can tell that, and these athletes have actually been tested for high levels of testosterone.”
They have been tested, but not in Paris.
The tests are inexpensive, and most athletes are getting them. “Many other international sports organizations, including World Athletics, so all the track and field athletes that you see at the Olympic Games, are going through that sort of testing, but not the boxers,” Bock said.
The IOC, the Paris Olympics organizers, and most importantly, the women’s fighters themselves, are fortunate that no one has yet been seriously injured.
Bock says the IOC is pursuing a political agenda the force of which keeps people with good intentions silent.
Bock: U.S. not following gender science
“It’s this gender ideology, unfortunately, is taking us. People are afraid or unwilling to do the right thing, and doing the right thing here is very, very easy,” Bock said.
“The IOC is the most political organization on the face of the planet. They were one of the first organizations to capitulate to the gender ideology that is raging in the U.S. If you look in Europe, there’s been a tremendous pullback on gender ideology because of scientific studies done by the public health services. The U.S. hasn’t caught up, and the U.S. is not following the science.”
