VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — A passionate crowd showered Algerian boxer Imane Khelif with cheers during her fight Saturday at the Paris Olympics, repeatedly chanting “Imane! Imane!” before the athlete who has faced a cascade of backlash over false claims about her gender broke out in sobs following her win.
A large contingent of Algerian supporters called her name and waved flags throughout the women’s 66-kilogram quarterfinal at North Paris Arena, and they unleashed some booes as her opponent was introduced in the jam-packed venue.
What a shameful episode this has been worldwide, watching so many celebrities open their pieholes and say the most horrible things. (Most notably, at least for me, was JK Rowling)
And yet, none of these unathletic, lazy, keyboard commandos would have the courage to talk trash to her face.
“But XY means man!”… unless it doesn’t:
The wild thing is this is Genetics 101. There are entire sections of textbooks dedicated to how weird sex is. It usually covers birds and reptiles where ZW is female and ZZ is male. And mushrooms go crazy with many sexes and reproductive strategies that make one’s head spin.
I feel like a lot of the elementary curriculum should be updated to the current "101"s of each subject… and everyone should get a “refresher” course, maybe every 10 years, to learn the diff changes.
It would also help to stop treating kids like they’re all stupid; stop teaching oversimplified versions of subjects, only to some years later go “Oh BTW, what we taught you before, that was BS, learn this one instead”.