it’s so funny to watch nasty bitches realize slander isn’t actually covered under freedom of speech in the wake of Imane Khelif filing that lawsuit. you actually do not have a God given right to try to ruin someone’s career after badly transvestigating them.

She did it AGAIN. WTAF is wrong with her??? She is being sued by this woman for cyber bullying and she decides to respond with....MORE cyber bullying.

Team Imane!! jK you are an insult to women and an insult to what it means to be decent.

Meanwhile

i think it's important not to act like the harassment imane khelif experienced is merely misdirected transmisogyny. it really can't be separated from the racism at play. transphobia was the cudgel she was beaten with for the crime of being visibly non white

racism wasn't just an incidental part of it. the reason it happened is because a white woman cried after being bested by a woman of color. imane khelif's racialized status is what made her so vulnerable to those attacks. the fact that she had the out of being cis did not save her from being dragged through the mud on international news

don't get it twisted, it's white supremacist patriarchy all the way down. it just happens that veiling your racism behind transphobic concern trolling over women's safety makes it go down easier in the mainstream right now, but it's the same shit ultimately. if you're a trans woman, if you're a woman of color, and god forbid if you're both (hi) you are a threat to patriarchal standards of womanhood, and you will be subject to the violence of the system trying to enforce itself

MANIFEST

MANIFEST

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They are horrible people. But trust me, we do not want the precident set by prosecuting speech like this. "Oh, they said something mean about us" is never a thing that doesn't end up hurting the poor and disadvantaged. It is apallingly easy to fuck up someone's life by just opening a terrible slander/libel suit, even meritless.

Also, America has some of the best (if not the best) free speech laws in the world and we need to tell England to fuck right off with telling us what we can say.

Civil liberties are meaningless unless they also protect people we find detestable. Because I basically guarantee that all of you are detestable to somebody.

But the issue here isn't that they said something mean. It's that they said something libellous.

You can call somebody an asshole. But if, say, you publicly declare in the press that someone is a murderer, you had damn better be able to prove it.

(That's the whole reason journalists always say "the alleged criminal allegedly did" even when everybody knows he is guilty)

Now, obviously there is nothing wrong with being trans.

But

a)that athlete is Algerian, one of the most homephobic countries in the world, where homosexuality is criminalised and the punishment is years in jail. Accusing her of being trans very legitimately puts her life in very serious danger.

b)given the rules of the competition, she'd get disqualified and lose her medal.

I have a question here. Does @necarion think Paris is in England?

The charges are happening under French law. French libel law is NOT like US libel law. (Most of the world's libel laws are broader than the US - they have sharper limits on what's allowed to be said in public.)

Odds of getting prison sentences are low.

Odds of enforcing prison sentences are even lower. Neither the UK nor the US is going to ship these people off to France to go to prison.

I have no idea what the odds of a fine are, but that would be easier to enforce. Especially against Musk, since Xitter does business in France.

So uh, women are like different shaped potatoes ✍️ and rocks edible? Yet to be determined.

Good.

Trump is named too. Nail all their asses to the wall.

Don’t you DARE hide these in the tags, @beaniebaneenie, they are accurate as FUCK.

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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria celebrates winning the gold medal after the Boxing Women's 66kg Final match on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Roland Garros on August 09, 2024.

JK Rowling for years and years: "everyone who was born with a vagina is a female woman girl forever always and there are no exceptions ever" JK Rowling after being called out on confusing a cis woman as a trans person: "actually anatomy doesn't matter at all and HE is a MALE because of a chromosome condition I heard about"

Yeah in case you weren't aware, she's quadrupling down and now retweeting a flurry of things about XY chromosomes rather than admit she made a really stupid and bigoted fucking judgment error, even as she's being threatened with a lawsuit and angering actual world leaders by insulting an olympian.

So twitter is being really fucking weird about Imane Khelif because they found out that she has elevated levels of testosterone. Anyone do this to Phelps who had the proportions and lung capacity to be a great swimmer? How about strongman Eddie Hall who has a gene that allows him to build muscle a lot more efficiently? She doesn’t even have a perfect record so it’s not like she’s been beating women left and right and setting off world records here. A white woman cried about getting hit too hard in a BOXING match and and all the transphobic racists came out to play. Hell she was born and assigned female at birth in a country that is notoriously anti-trans 😭

This is Caster Semenya all over again. Black women and women of color are never escaping the manly allegations.

As a physiologist let me say a few words.

I don’t care about sports. I don’t give a damn about the Olympics for other reasons I won’t talk about. But I’m pissed now.

If we are to disqualify the people from the Olympics, we should be 100% fair. No biological advantages allowed!

Believe or not, the professional sport is based on anomalies and mutation. That’s the selection. It sucks and it’s not fair but it is what it is.

Also, having these mutations doesn’t mean you’re automatically great at sports - I’m shit at gymnastics while being hypermobile as fuck. So it’s still unfair even to us expressing these traits, lol.

There are XY AFAB women!!!

This happens during the pregnancy if the child has male chromosomes but there is not enough male hormones in the development of the baby resulting in the baby being assigned female at birth. It’s a form of intersex, but there is literally no physical difference between such child and XX AFAB baby.

Those are cis women. Not trans men. Not even trans men.

The people screaming about the Olympics being a disgrace and the proof of collapse of the society are literally the people who are usually like “there are two genders based on what’s in their pants”. Now it’s the chromosomes you’re checking?

Maybe you are an XY-woman, maybe your sister is. You don’t know.

Stop using biology for spreading misinformation about intersex people, transgender people and women in general.

too high to write. have screenshots from threads.

One takeaway I have from all this noise around Imane Khelif is that a lot of grifters and TERFs had to make up a trans person to be mad at, which is really sad and funny. I feel awful for her.

My second takeaway is people think sports are about fairness? What? Since when?

Karim Zidan comes through with an article explaining all. True champion of combat sports journalism.

[Image ID: Text from the linked article which reads, “The truth is that there is no indication that Khelif did anything wrong. She has not been accused of doping to boost testosterone levels, nor is she transgender. She was born female, as was confirmed by the IOC. The real scandal isn’t Khelif’s presence at the Olympic Games but the hatemongering from Musk and Rowling that could cost the Algerian athlete her life.

So much for protecting women.” End ID.]