This past weekend, two biologically male boxers won gold medals in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Imane Khelif of Algeria won the gold medal in the women’s welterweight division. On Saturday, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won the gold medal in the women’s featherweight division.

As reported by Boxing News, the oldest boxing publication in the world:

Khelif has documented male XY chromosomes. Khelif—along with Lin Yu-ting, of Taiwan—was banned from boxing at the world championships last year, this because of the fact that Khelif, and Yu-ting, was proven to be biological male.

Why did the International Olympic Committee allow biological men to box women?

The reason is that the IOC is a woke organization. And given that the Olympics took place in a particularly woke locale—Paris—the Games featured almost everything that the word “woke” represents.

Sporting organizations independent of the IOC set their own eligibility rules—which usually means biological males cannot compete in women’s sports. But for the second straight Summer Olympics, Olympic boxing has been run by an IOC-appointed committee, not by a functioning governing body for that sport.

As a result, every woman who faced Khelif or Lin was soundly defeated. Women who devoted their lives to the grueling sport of boxing and to the goal of one day winning an Olympic gold medal were cheated out of the possibility.

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