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Yes, he's a man:

Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male.

Just 36 hours after World Boxing ruled that Khelif, a hugely controversial Olympic champion in women’s boxing at last summer’s Paris Games, would need to undergo sex screening to be eligible for any future appearances in the female category, the document at the heart of this extraordinary saga was released into the public domain.

Alan Abrahamson, the American journalist who disclosed in Paris how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had been warned more than a year earlier that Khelif had the DNA of a “male”, produced the result of a test carried out on the boxer in New Delhi in March 2023, triggering the boxer’s disqualification from the championships that year.

The document published on the 3 Wire Sports website summarises the findings on Khelif as “abnormal”, stating: “Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype”. A karyotype refers to an individual’s complete set of chromosomes, which in Khelif’s case has been reported by the International Boxing Association (IBA) as being XY, the male pattern.

The test results carry the letterhead of Dr Lal PathLabs in New Delhi, accredited by the American College of Pathologists and certified by the Swiss-based International Organisation for Standardisation. This directly challenges the account of IOC spokesman Mark Adams, who in a tense news conference at the Paris Olympics described the results as “ad hoc” and “not legitimate”.

Thomas Bach, the IOC president, has gone even further, claiming that the results are the product of a Russian-led misinformation campaign.

A shameful embarrassment for the Olympic Committee. Will he be stripped of his gold medal? Unlikely. It would imply that Thomas Bach was a craven idiot – and that would never do.

Jack Delano, March 1943. "San Bernardino, California. Women workers employed at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops coming out at the end of the day's shift."

[Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

Off for a few days. Back Monday 2nd June.

or treatment for over 16-year-olds”, writes Kaltiala. “The evidence relied upon in the policy does not support that conclusion. It is not possible to conclude that treatment with cross sex hormones is safe for under 18-year-olds, and having reached age 16 makes no difference to this,” she said.

Existing research does not verify “the assumed psychosocial and mental health benefits of cross-sex hormones initiated during developmental years” either, she argued. Gender medicine seems to be acting outside of medical norms: “No other medical field performs irreversible treatments before the age of 25 years in Sweden”, Prof Dahlgren said, adding that she is “not aware” of any condition in children that needs cross-sex hormone treatment. “However,” she also wrote, “some disorders of sex development (DSD) may need complementary sex hormone treatment.” Both expert reports were highly critical of the model provided by overseas prescribers of hormones. It was “unsafe and irresponsible”, Kaltiala said.

It could hardly be more damning. This is what "gender-affirming care" really means. Prescribing these drugs to teenage children – or younger – is a grotesque breach of everything medicine should be about. Streeting can surely not ignore this.

Last word to JKR:

If, after reading this article, you continue to pretend that it is ‘hate’ to question the advisability of surgically and chemically castrating/sterilising troubled teens, you’re either malign or dangerously stupid. https://t.co/00xkuB5Q0B

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 27, 2025

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Who could possibly have anticipated this? From the Telegraph:

A training session for psychotherapists on tackling Islamophobia was cancelled after three academics leading the event were accused of posting anti-Semitic material on social media.

Messages posted or shared by the trainers on X described Israel as a Nazi state and referred to “a Zionism problem” in healthcare institutions.

The event, organised by the professional body for psychotherapists, had been intended to help therapists and wellbeing practitioners become aware of the impact of Islamophobia on mental health….

On Oct 1 2024, Prof Mir reposted a tweet expressing “pure joy” at an Iranian missile attack against Israel.

In May 2024, Dr Younis wrote on X that “our healthcare institutions have a Zionism problem” and stated the following month: “Our work isn’t done until all Zionists are removed from our institutions and are shamed, alongside all racists, into nothingness”.

Shocked and surprised? I know I am.

treeting's decision to block trans youth's access to essential healthcare.

As a result of Congress' votes, UCU is now calling for employers to support the right to use gendered facilities which match gender identities and will write to Wes Streeting condemning the findings and methods of the Cass Report.

UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: 'Our Congress has once again committed our union to stand shoulder to shoulder with the trans community in the fight for equality.

'This year trans people have suffered a wave of attacks against them, but UCU remains steadfast as one of their most vocal allies. We refuse to allow trans people to be the collateral of a right-wing culture war and while they continue to experience violence at home, in the workplace and on the airwaves, we will stand by them.'

Phew. A Churchillian flourish to finish. "While they continue to experience violence at home, in the workplace and on the airwaves, we will stand by them."

It's true: the UCU under leader Jo Grady has consistently supported trans ideology, and kicked any gender-critical women – like Kathleen Stock at Sussex University – in the teeth.

Argument is useless. No, trans people have not suffered a wave of attacks; no, it's not a "right-wing culture war". And no, there are no trans youths being denied "essential healthcare" – just deluded kids in the grip of a social contagion being lured into a lifetime's nightmare of unnecessary medical mutilation and interference in the essential requirement to at least let them go through puberty and reach adulthood – at which point, maybe, they're mature enough to decide for themselves.

What a disgrace this whole business is. Helen Joyce made the point a while back that parents who allowed their kids to be transed would never admit they'd made a terrible mistake and ruined their children's lives. It's beginning to look like the same applies to any group that's backed gender ideology. They'll never admit they got it wrong. 

Plus, as is now clear, it's against the law.

bigger and more obvious, and now might be a good time for him to reread the myth of Icarus, because nobody needs clairvoyant powers to foresee how this is going to end.

Is this really the best @UKLabour can do? No explanation given, no recognition that women have arranged annual leave/ help with caring responsibilities, no acknowledgement that local CLPs and Women's branches want to be represented in policy discussions. #WomensVoices #Lab2025 pic.twitter.com/GGAHuC10VS

— Ann Henderson (@AnnDHenderson) May 26, 2025

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The postponement – aka cancellation – is doubtless due to the trans dilemma. They know they should follow the Supreme Court ruling that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, but that would annoy all the trans women they've been pandering to all these years. The solution is obvious: just don't bother with the conference at all. Brilliant. It's only women, after all.

rd to know whether everyone is too frightened or perhaps they simply don’t care. I am not sure what is worse.

Contrast that with Kneecap. They are named after an IRA punishment of shooting petty criminals in the knees. Earlier this month, Liam Barker, who was kneecapped as a teenager, described the impact it had had on him. A victim of sexual abuse, he ran away from his children’s home and stole cars. He was shot in the knees by the IRA when he was 17. He said he had to learn to walk again, adding the experience had led him to lead a life “of mental and physical trauma”.

This bank holiday weekend, Kneecap will be the headline act at South London’s Wide Awake festival in Brockwell Park. Their next UK date will be their biggest – at Glastonbury. At the last big festival they played at, Coachella, they displayed the message, “F**k Israel. Free Palestine.”

Since then, one of their members has been charged with a terror offence. This relates to footage taken from a gig at the Kentish Town Forum last year, in which Liam O'Hanna (stage name Mo Chana) appears to shout, “Up Hamas, up Hezbollah.” At a previous gig, a member appeared to shout: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”

After one gig with them was cancelled, the music industry rallied around. The likes of Paul Weller, Primal Scream, DJ Annie Mac and scores of other acts signed a letter saying: “As artists we feel the need to register our opposition to any political repression of artistic freedom. In a democracy, no political figures or political parties should have the right to dictate who does and does not play at music festivals or gigs that will be enjoyed by thousands of people.”

Not one of these artists spoke up for Oi Va Voi….

The argument over Kneecap is likely to come to a head soon with Glastonbury, which is going to be forced to make a decision: will they showcase this band? If they do, will they demand no political content? Will the BBC screen Kneecap’s performance?

This row is going to be nasty and noisy, no doubt. We’ll see letters and social media posts celebrating a group, even though one of its members has been charged with supporting a terrorist organisation that glorifies the murder of Jews.

For Oi Va Voi and other groups with an Israeli link, however, the slow silent cancellation will continue. And none of those free speech activists in the music world will breathe a word.

Admittedly Oi Va Voi are hardly household names, but if it had been a Palestinian group cancelled for being offensive to Jews (would never happen) you can be sure these big names would be lining up in solidarity, to share their horror.

those of women. What a terrible picture that would paint.  

Is there a trade union not in thrall to gender ideology? The constant drumbeat that trans people are the most persecuted people on earth just ticks all the boxes for these left ideologue dinosaurs. And the fact that women are the ones who suffer is surely a bonus for these men (though sadly they're not all men), who in reality have zero interest in women's rights, and haven't got where they are today by thinking for themselves.