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Just like with Caster Semanya, I feel quite sorry for the two fighters. They were born female, brought up female, they have not transitioned, they are not dopers ……

I imagine life would have been a whole lot easier for the Algerian boxer if she was a male generally.


In hindsight, with the knowledge that the Algerian was born a woman, I agree with you.

Yet it's easy to see how all this gets magnified under the current ongoing controversies regarding trans athletes in women's competitions.

People (not you) tend to rush to one side or the other when these things happen.

The "male-looking" Algerian makes the Italian woman quit... people flock to condemn the Algerian, accusing her of being a man.

The Algerian gets cleared... people flock to condemn those who were condemning the Algerian.

The fact of the matter is that a man beating up on a woman is bound to happen in an international (or otherwise) boxing competition. It's only a matter of time.

Boxing authorities have done fuck all in trying to head off potential tragedies, and it's going to come back and bite them in the ass.



I personally had slowly come around to women's boxing, with excellent fighters like Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor providing better entertainment than some men's matches.

But shit like this tends to chip away at something like women's boxing... and eventually contribute to its undoing.