“Tomorrow I will go into the ring and give it my all, I have to adapt to what the IOC has decided,” says Angela Carini, a 25-year-old from Naples. She will face Algerian boxer Imane Khelif in a match in the 66kg category, amidst controversies over testosterone tests by the IOC and DNA tests by the IBA that revealed XY chromosomes in Khelif’s body last year.
Concerns from the boxing team’s entourage are rising, while FPI President Flavio D’Ambrosi prefers to maintain “institutional silence” about the situation.
“It is difficult to understand the lack of alignment in minimum hormonal levels internationally, including European, World, and Olympic levels. In an event that represents the highest values of sports, the safety of athletes and fair competition must be ensured. Tomorrow, Angela Carini will not have this assurance,” says Sports Minister Andrea Abodi regarding the upcoming match between the Italian boxer and the Algerian athlete.
Paris: the case of Imane Khelif
“The issue of transgender athletes must be dealt with in the context of respect in all its forms, but we must distinguish sports practice from competition, which must allow for fair competition and safety,” Abodi continues. “It’s clear that the gender identity dimension in sports raises concerns about equal opportunities. In this case, we see an interpretation of inclusivity that ignores fundamental factors.”
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“CONI has engaged with the International Olympic Committee to ensure that the rights of all athletes comply with the Olympic Charter and health regulations,” reads a statement from the Italian Olympic Committee, addressing the controversies surrounding Imane Khelif’s participation in the boxing tournament.
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Rampelli: Tomorrow We Will See a Man Fighting a Woman
“While respecting all sexual orientations, denying the biological differences between a man and a woman is scientifically unfounded. Just look at the muscle mass of a male physique compared to a female’s. Having two athletes of different sexes fight in the ring endangers women’s safety.
Learning that a man will be battling our athlete Angela Carini leaves us dismayed and worried. The same paradoxical ideology that plagues our society with seeing patriarchy in every gesture or word, sometimes entirely normal, now forces us to accept that a biological man will be striking a woman on a global stage because, in the ‘woke hierarchy,’ the trans beats the woman.
This event sends a horrible message and puts women at risk and in difficulty as such, starting with our female boxer. If the concept of universal, even physical, equivalence between man and woman prevails, it undermines one of the principles that prevent violence against women from the start: the cowardice of taking advantage of an obvious physical imbalance to her disadvantage. We must free the IOC and sports from individuals so blinded by ideology,” states Fabio Rampelli, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy’s Brothers of Italy party, commenting on the announcement of Imane Khelif’s admission, a trans Algerian, in the boxing matches at the ongoing Paris Olympics.
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