(And Get Away With It)
You’d have to be living in a pretty strict prison not to have heard the big story from today’s Olympics in Paris, in which male Algerian cheat Imane Khelefi was put in a boxing ring with young Italian woman Angela Carini and allowed to hit her in the head for 46 seconds until she retired, in tears and in fear for her safety, saying “I had to preserve my life”.
Sound like your kind of fun, men? It’s surprisingly easy!
?FULL MATCH?
Though the IOC is copyright-striking anyone who uploads the full match between Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Italy’s Angela Carini, Reduxx will preserve it here for as long as we can.
The IOC knew about Khelif. Carini should not have been put in danger like this. pic.twitter.com/ENfOIcYVO0
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 1, 2024
Because if you too are a bloke who’d like to punch women in the face and not only get away with it but be cheered on like some sort of hero by world sporting authorities and “progressive” politicians (and, obviously, Billy Bragg), you’re only 55 quid away.
Khelif, who is visibly and obviously male, was disqualified in 2023 by the International Boxing Association for failing a medical gender test.
Khelif didn’t even bother to appeal the IBA’s decision, but the International Olympic Committee ignored it, and permitted him to enter the women’s boxing competition on the basis of… his passport.
So how hard is it to get a passport in the opposite gender? This hard:
You don’t even need a Gender Recognition Certificate. A simple letter from a “medical consultant” will do. But at least these letters are hard to get, right?
Nope. Just slip crooked, reckless, struck-off former GP Helen Webberley 55 quid and she’ll sort you out the second your payment clears.
(She still counts as a “medical consultant”, because that term means nothing.)
And that’s it. You’re all done. Send your £55 letter off to the Passport Office and you’re officially a female as far as the IOC is concerned.
Just send them your new passport and you can trot along to the Olympics, pop some gloves on, and start battering women around the head as hard as you like, and not only will you NOT be hauled off by the police and put in jail like some sort of chump, they’ll quite literally give you a medal for it.
Have fun, lads!
