(Update (4:04pm) Confirming what we already knew. Khelif’s Trainer Confirms “Problem With Chromosomes.” The next move for those who denied this is to say that it shouldn’t matter that Khelif is a male. Inclusion is more important than fairness. This is the progressive two-step. It’s a reflex. “They aren’t amputating the healthy breasts of 14 year olds.” Actually they are. “Good. They should.” They will never admit they’re wrong. They will only reveal what they thought about it the whole time they were dragging the red herring across the truth path.
Update (12:19pm, August 11): We learned yesterday that Bach is stepping down. Good. He’s either a coward or an incompetent. He should not have been in charge of the Olympics, albeit there are others who repeat the same absurdities.
Update (2:56pm): Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting has won the gold medal in the featherweight division (57kg or 126lbs) against Poland’s Julia Szeremeta (who will take the silver). The Taiwanese fighter won every round on all judges score cards. Lin Yu-ting is 5’9.” Like Imane Khelif, judges awarded Lin Yu-ting every round of every bout.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has developed a propaganda manual on how to obscure the presence of males in female sports while delegitimizing those who criticize and challenge IOC policy. Everyone associated with the Olympic Games is supposed to use the manual’s words and style when talking about policy and practice. It’s a real world instantiation of what George Orwell called “Newspeak.” The Portrayal Guidelines is based on definitions sex and gender incubated in postmodernist literary and philosophical studies (largely originating in France during the 1960s) known as “queer theory” and disseminated by the corporate-captured sense-making institutions—academia, the culture industry, mass media, etc. (See Judith Butler’s Gender Gibberish.)
Postmodernism is a political-ideological project to deny that knowledge (valid belief) is possible because the world is constructed by a grand narrative privileged by power presumed unjust (just because) and therefore warranting resistance. Resisting the narrative requires deconstructing it from the standpoint of those who deny reality, because reality limits what is possible (this is the source of transhumanist seeking), and who desire to transgress the boundaries that safeguard children and women. By embracing the totalitarian vision of postmodernist world (dis)ordering, the IOC has shown itself to be a throughly corrupt and ideologically-captured institution. But it’s only one of the many transnational organizations dis/reorganizing our language to dis/reorder our thoughts on a mass scale.
IOC president Thomas Bach recently said there is no scientific way to determine sex, but that he is sure sex chromosomes don’t anymore (“International Olympic Committee President Says Chromosomes Don’t Determine Sex: ‘Not True Anymore’”). From a scientific standpoint, this is false. A woman is an adult female human, which is determinable by karyotype, gamete size, and reproductive anatomy. Sex (or gender) is binary and immutable. But there’s a trick of language here because the IOC and other organizations and institutions do not accept science since they operate within the postmodernist frame that denies science as a master narrative, a fact proven by the Portrayal Guidelines in the IOC’s case (and there are lots of such guidelines out there, see for example, NIH and the Tyranny of Compelled Speech). What Bach is really saying is that there can be no scientific way to determine gender because science is not a valid way of knowing—and there are no valid ways of knowing because all narratives are constructed by power, which is tautologically constituted by discursive formations.
In postmodernist thought, truth is not fact and reason but power. Power will tell you what truth is. It follows, then, that who is in power matters very much to your freedom. To be sure, we should pay attention to this. This is the truth of totalitarian systems.
The concept of gender as constructed by queer theory—which is being pressed into the brains of children and young adults in classrooms across the West (What is Grooming? )—is of recent development (Gender and the English Language) and entirely crackpot (Fear and Loathing in the Village of Chamounix: Monstrosity and the Deceits of Trans Joy). Any pretense to science from this standpoint is pseudoscientific . It is impossible for a man to become a woman, yet everywhere we are told that “transwomen are women” and that men have penises and periods. These claims have no basis whatsoever in science—indeed they contradict science (and common sense). (Bubbles and Realities: How Ubiquitous is Gender Ideology?)
But since science is only one of many narratives, scientific claims are irrelevant—if you accept the premise of queer theory. Get it? 2+2=5 because the Party said so. The New Zealand government is your sole source of truth. Social media will tell you what is or is not disinformation. Fauci is omnipotent. Mask up. Vax up. Lock down. This is all happening right in front of your eyes. Don’t be gaslit. You’re not crazy. They are. (See The Project to Gaslight the Masses is Massive and Comprehensive.)
These crackpot ideas are projections of the corporate power that stands in back of postmodernism. Or, in China, the CCP. Or, in North Korea, the Dear Leader. But science does not derive its power from the corporate state, but from fact and reason. Science is a means to truth. Destroy science and everything reverts to myth, to stories projected by power, stories that may feign science (or indigenous knowledge and so on), but that conceal, deny, or sublimate truth. The postmodernists seek to undermine the authority of science to obscure the truth and then put in its place their ideological vision of the world, which is the corporatist vision.
This is why the tyrants are at war with free conscience, speech, press, association, and assembly. This is why they want to remove effective weaponry from the homes of citizens scheduled for serfdom. This is why they invade our privacy. This is why they deplatform us and debank us and unperson us. This is why they have organized a culture of snitches to report thought-crimes to the authorities. There is no conspiracy here. One need only report the facts—and not deny them—to see. Don’t legitimize their thought-stoping cliches.
This tyranny is known by several names. In America, it’s known progressivism and represented by the Democratic Party (with some Republicans in tow). In the UK it’s the Labour Party (with some Tories in tow). In back of these and other political parties is the corporate state and its attendant technocracy that defines science—if it bothers to define it at all—in ways that advance and entrench the “authority” of the transnational power elite, which is a very real and identifiable apparatus. This is what modern-day totalitarianism looks like.
Another mark of tyranny is the misogynistic denial of women’s rights and equity in sports. The IOC abandoned genetic gender testing in 1999. They have stubbornly refused to reinstitute testing because “every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination.” Does that “every person” include girls and women? If so, then why are males allowed to compete in women’s sports? The reason sports are gender segregated is because males as group have a distinct natural advantage over women in athletic competition. Allowing males to compete against women discriminates against women. So the IOC does not in fact believe “every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination.”
IOC President Thomas Bach, essentially validating the IBA’s findings, said, “It is not as easy as some may now want to portray it—that XX or XY is the clear distinction between men and women. This is scientifically not true anymore.” It is absolutely still scientifically true. The Y is the sex-determining chromosome in mammals. The IOC has embraced the pseudoscience of queer theory. The IOC doesn’t believe in science. It believes in male privilege.
When I post on this subject on social media, I am attacked as a bigot who wants to discriminate against trans and intersex people (both false constructs since a mammal cannot change gender and nobody is between or both sexes). We need to make obvious the assumption behind the smear. The assumption is that trans women are women and therefore they belong in women’s spaces and should be allowed to participate in women’s activities. But trans women are not women, therefore they do not belong in women’s spaces and should not be allowed to participate in women’s activities. Moreover, males with DSD should not be allowed to participate in female sports because they are males. Once the assumption is made obvious, that males are females, an absurdity, an obvious question emerges: Why are progressives so triggered by the defense of women’s rights? Shouldn’t they be first in line to defend these rights given their self-proclaimed feminism?
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As many of you know, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won the gold medal at welterweight (66kg or 145lbs) in women’s boxing. Khelif won every round on every scorecard in the three matches that went the distance. Standing 5’10”, Khelif is a male with an XY karyotype suffering DSD and likely a 5-ARD case (similar to South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya), meaning that there is endogenous testosterone production (internal testes). Khelif has gone through male puberty. IOC rules against doping diminish the likelihood that androgen analogs were used to produce Khelif’s adult male body. The International Boxing Association (IBA) has confirmed that Khelif is male, and the results were forwarded to Khelif.
Khelif was one of two boxers ruled ineligible for competition in women’s boxing, the other, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, fights for the gold in the featherweight division this afternoon. Lin Yu-ting was also forwarded his test results. While confidentiality rules preclude the IBA from revealing the specific results themselves, both boxers could themselves release these results. Until they do or are retested by a reputable independent body their participation in the Summer Olympic Games will always carry an asterisk in the minds of millions of people across the planet. The IBA raised this issue because the IOC refused to consider the facts in determining eligibility for inclusion in women’s boxing.
For my previous analysis and commentary on this controversy, see Misogyny Resurgent: Atavistic Expressions of a Neoreligion; The Ubiquity of Fallacious Reasoning on the Progressive Left; Sacrificing Equity Upon the Altar of Exclusive Inclusivity; Dignity and Sex-Based Rights; Supper in the Spectacular Café. The last essay confirms the purpose of the open ceremony at the Paris Olympics, which I first discussed in my essays Apollo is Crucified and Butch Dines on Dionysus and The Paris Olympics and the War on Western Culture: Preparing the Masses for the New World Order.
Finally, the case of Nikki Hiltz has been used by social media commentators to challenge my position concerning Khelif. Nikki Hiltz is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters. Since 2021, Hiltz had identified as “transgender” and “nonbinary” and goes by “them/they” pronouns. In addition to being a prominent athlete, Hiltz is an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. Like all mammals, humans have a gender, so the identity “nonbinary” is a nonsensical construct. But that aside, Hiltz is female and competes against other females, so there is no controversy here. Hiltz has said that she wants to take testosterone and make other changes to her body, but since the IOC will not allow this, she will have to wait. However, even with testosterone, Hiltz could never compete with elite male runners. The natural advantages males enjoy in track and field are for female athletes insurmountable.
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