All I know is the IOC have their hands full come LA2028. The unfair trashing of the Algerian woman notwithstanding, the issue of trans in women's sports isn't going away any time soon. Just like it has created controversy way before the Paris Olympics even began. I mentioned Lia Thomas... and there are sure to be more cases like that. Trans swimmers, sprinters, etc... not to mention the contact sports. While it's wrong to deny anyone their right to compete, it's just as wrong to place them in a category where they don't belong. Some women may suffer from excess bravado, like Claressa Shields, who supposedly has called out men boxers. But that is honestly beside the point. The point is that the separation of men and women in sports is there for a reason. In swimming and running all that is at stake are places on the podium, which itself is bad enough. But when you involve contact sports, like boxing, you've got a whole different ballgame.

I've always consistently mentioned women's sports and elementary education as my biggest beefs with the strong push for trans rights. So at least mentally, "I told you so" thoughts very much cross my mind. This is a mess of our own making. Part of society wants to bend over backwards so desperately, maybe to give off that openness vibe... that common sense has been thrown right out the window.

Yeah, it's too bad that Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting have been abused on social media through no fault of their own. But the bigger picture here is that the rule-making organizations in sports are fukking this up so bad, there are going to be wide-ranging and long-lasting repercussions.