Trump Decries Two Olympians, Mislabels Female Boxers as Men

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday once more decried two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the feminine boxers as males.

Trump made the feedback whereas talking at a marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania and pledging to “hold males out of ladies’s sports activities,” turned his consideration to the just lately concluded Olympic Games and the case of two athletes who turned the topic of worldwide scrutiny relating to misconceptions about their gender.

Trump has lengthy criticized transgender individuals as a part of his rallies and centered particularly on transgender athletes, utilizing language about gender identification that LGBTQ+ advocates say is unsuitable and dangerous.

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In the case of the 2 boxers, each Imane Khelif of Algeria and Li Yu-ting of Taiwan have confronted misconceptions about their gender created by the fallout from the Olympic-banished International Boxing Association’s choice final 12 months to disqualify each fighters from the world championships for allegedly failing an eligibility check.

Trump didn’t point out the athletes by identify however remarked that “within the Olympics, they’d two transitioned.”

“They had been males. They transitioned to girls, they usually had been within the boxing,” Trump stated.

Despite being born and raised as girls, Khelif and Lin discovered themselves within the crosshairs of Western debates about gender, intercourse and sports activities after failing the unspecified and never clear eligibility assessments for ladies’s competitors from the now-banned International Boxing Association.

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Trump and different outstanding figures have complained about Khelif being allowed to compete and Trump has beforehand referred to Khelif as a person.

On Saturday, he did so once more and in describing each athletes competing within the video games as “loopy” and stated, “It’s so demeaning to girls.”