As you may know, the 23-year-old reality TV star has had quite the journey with her health over the years. She’s especially struggled with her weight in recent times, and lately, she has worked very hard to reach her goals. Work that she is now proudly showing off on Instagram!! On Monday, the transgender activist shared a before-and-after style video where she revealed in the two years she’s been working towards a healthier lifestyle, she’s lost 100 POUNDS!!!!

Related: Euphoria Star Barbie Ferreira Is Unrecognizable After Weight Loss!

In the post, she wrote:

“Two years later and almost 100 pounds lighter! I’m so proud of my progress and want to thank my family, friends and all who supported me in getting there! Good health is not a certificate you display, it is a constant effort! I still have room for improvement, but I am more motivated and inspired than I’ve been in years. Let’s keep it going!”

AH-Mazing!!

See the inspiring video (below):

Seriously, the before-and-after is STUNNING!!

Just compare these two stills from her video (below):

Incredible!!

In the comments, fans and family alike shared how proud they are of her, with some writing:

“You look amazing and healthy that’s the most important part, you’re a true inspiration”

“Love this!!! I just started my wellness journey. Incredibly inspiring.”

“So proud of you! You’re looking amazing!! Keep up the good work! Keep doing the things that make you smile!”

“That’s AMAZING Jazz! I’m so happy for you!”

“Get it girl!!!! You are amazing and unstoppable!!!”

Her mom Jeanette Jennings chimed in with support:

“Sooooooo proud of you! I love you so much.”

And her big brother Sander, who helped her train, sweetly replied:

“So proud to be by your side every step of the way! You inspire me so much. Keep pushing towards your goals “

What an amazing accomplishment! Jazz should be so proud of herself! Reactions, Perezcious readers?

[Image via Jazz Jennings/Instagram]

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Amid the ongoing It Ends With Us controversy and the back-and-forth PR battle with her co-star-slash-director Justin Baldoni, Blake is catching heat for a 2012 quote she gave to Elle Magazine. And fans are debating wildly on X (Twitter) right now about whether or not what Blake said back then was truly problematic no matter the time period, or just an unfortunate sign of the troubling social culture of that earlier era!

Related: ‘It Ends With Us’ Author & Cast SCARED Of Blake Lively, Says Insider!

So, here’s the context: way back in 2012, Elle asked Blake about whether she wanted to raise boys or girls as a mother. Her response was snarky and strange, with her saying she’d either want to have girls or “trannies,” as she termed it:

“I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they better be trannies. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.”

YIKES!!!

Not exactly the kind of word you want to be throwing around, ya know? Or the flippant attitude one should deliver about somebody’s gender identity! And on Sunday on X, one user re-posted a screenshot of that quote and conveyed their shock that Blake had ever said it in the first place:

“sometimes ill be quietly going about my day and then ill remember the time blake lively said this to a journalist”

sometimes ill be quietly going about my day and then ill remember the time blake lively said this to a journalist pic.twitter.com/SIHZcrlzui

— joshua ???? (@joshcharles_21) August 18, 2024

And that wasn’t all! He also came through with receipts from ANOTHER interview Lively did in that very same month which he says proves that she should have known that “trannies” wasn’t an acceptable term to use even back then!!

this article was published the same month she said this quote, btw. to suggest using the term as a straight woman was acceptable in 2012 is misguided at best and just straight up ignorant at worst – she straight up should have known better https://t.co/U5Ii2taSSs pic.twitter.com/H6xOQBplKj

— joshua ???? (@joshcharles_21) August 19, 2024

And even THAT wasn’t all! Another old resurfaced interview clip showed Blake flippantly and casually using that word yet again while promoting Gossip Girl back in the day, too:

She said it again here too. The early 2000s were a terrible time for language like this, so many people casually used these words. pic.twitter.com/cK8VLH3gFN

— alli. (@AlliApplebum) August 18, 2024

Yikes, yikes, yikes!! Sure, it was 12 years ago. But still, even back then the use of that word in that way was so cutting and disrespectful!

Except… other X users didn’t necessarily see it that way! Interestingly, a debate raged in the replies to the original tweet, with many people actually coming to the star’s defense and trying to put her problematic phrasing into context:

“Trust me back then ppl said a lot worse. Not saying that this was right but it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.”

“Is the internet just going through a trend of hating on Blake Lively?”

“It was wasn’t right, kind or acceptable but it was widely accepted. Things didn’t change overnight and that conversation was only just reaching many.”

“I’m actually not mad at this at all. The word was thrown around a lot back in the day. If it was said today it would be problematic, but nothing is wrong w wishing for a trans child.”

“It was a different time, they used that word all the time on SATC even in scenes starring actual trans people”

“You just blew up the whole smear campaign with this one”

“This isn’t really a problem. That’s how everyone referred to the trans community back then. If you’re gonna fault her, you gotta fault the entire world because that’s just what it was back then”

Wow!

As we’ve said, this is not the first time this troubling old interview from Blake has resurfaced on social media. But considering the ongoing IEWU brouhaha, it’s definitely getting a lot of new eyeballs and thrusting a lot more people into the debate about her usage of that troubling word than ever before!

What do U think, Perezcious readers?? Are you with them about having to contextualized Blake’s commentary in the social milieu of the time in which it was made?! Or is it just totally unacceptable no matter the era?? Sound OFF with your thoughts down in the comments (below)…

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As you may have seen, the 20-year-old has been calling out her billionaire father over some nasty claims he’s made about her, such as saying she was dead to him after being killed by the “woke mind virus” after she transitioned following her 18th birthday. The whole thing has been super s**tty! And she’s not done clapping back!

Related: Elon Musk Accuses Megan Fox Of Child Abuse! WTF!

On Sunday night, Vivian took to Threads to put author Walter Isaacson on blast for the way he portrayed her in his biography of the Tesla founder. She began:

“To Walter Isaacson, you threw me to the wolves in what was one of the most humiliating experiences of my entire life.”

Jeez.

She continued:

“Elon was your darling Tony Stark apartheid-american hero with a semi-tragic backstory who was saving the world and you were too f**king cowardly to write anything other than a sad excuse for a puff-piece. To further this goal, you portrayed me in a light that is genuinely defamatory and I’m not going to mince my words.”

And she didn’t!!! She dished:

“I was treated as a VILLAIN BACKSTORY-ORIGIN to excuse or explain away [Musk’s] behavior. As if my whole existence was nothing but an inconvenience to HIM. God bless the poor soul who abused his child, that must be so f**king hard for him. I was deadnamed, and misgendered for no conceivable reason and made to seem like I was just too stupid or too ‘communist’ or too brainwashed or too what-f**king-ever to understand the 4d chess behind the reasons I was traumatized.”

Vivian added that her identity was “trivialized,” noting:

“My identity was trivialized, my reasons for separation were misconstrued, and I was treated as naïve; stupid, unfairly unforgiving and unreasonably moralistic. Worst of all, this was the section that was released early as part of the ‘promo’ because you knew it would catch headlines as part of this culture war bulls**t. You knew that conservatives and ‘reactionaries’ would take this and run as far as they could with it to get clicks, or to smear my name for their own self interests.”

The book, Elon Musk, was published in September 2023 by Simon & Schuster, but an excerpt hit The Wall Street Journal weeks before the publication, in which the author said Elon’s “anti-woke sentiments” had been “partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child” to transition, referring to Vivian by the name she’d been assigned at birth.

Vivian now claims that she was never consulted over the book — despite it being fairly easy for Walter to get in touch. She argued:

“I was never asked, interviewed, or contacted to say anything for this poor excuse of pages you call a book. I know that you claim that you ‘reached out to me through family members’ but I found out about this thing’s existence literally a MONTH before it was released. So either you are completely f**king incompetent at the most basic aspects of your ‘job’, or you are weaponizing your own lack of effort to try to lift the blame off of yourself because you knew damn well what you were doing.”

She suggested that Walter “deliberately failed because [he] knew the angle [he] were going for, and that [her] testimony would’ve f**ked up [his] pretty little portrayal of an irredeemable human being.” Call him out!!! She continued:

“I was content to sit in my silence up until now and to be your queer villain. You knew that I was gonna be used as an example of ‘how the children are being brainwashed by the trans agenda’ because you did it yourself and then proceeded to blast it to every news organization to use as an ad to sell more copies. The fact that this book may have been used as justification by parents to not let their trans child obtain potentially life-saving medical treatment f**king HAUNTS me. It always will.”

Oof. That’s AWFUL — especially since she had nothing to do with this narrative! None of this is her fault, and yet it is still a nightmare, she furthered:

“I’ve been waiting on talking about this subject because it genuinely hurts so much to remember. That memory of sobbing my eyes out in a dormitory worrying that I didn’t have a future because of the damage this thing did to my reputation will forever stay with me. You, your editors, and your publisher are a f**king joke for letting this thing be released into the public. I had to see posters of this thing for MONTHS afterwards.”

She concluded by pointing out one major fact check he failed to do, clarifying that she goes by “Vivian” and that only her friends and mother Justine Wilson call her “Jenna.” She finished:

“If you genuinely knew what you were talking about that’s how you would’ve referred to me. It is genuinely impressive that you somehow managed to find a way to even f**k up my NAME. I think that goes to show how much research actually went into this. I am not letting this narrative continue any further.”

Wow. We cannot imagine how difficult this must be — and especially to be dealing with it on such a public scale. So stressful and traumatic! Ugh. See the full thread (below):

So Elon Musk's daughter (Vivian) posted on threads again, this time about @WalterIsaacson.
She called him out over the Elon Musk biography he authored. ???? pic.twitter.com/yvOWz6lfnO

— Stardust (@tweetsfromstar) August 12, 2024

Reactions? Share ’em in the comments (below)!

For resources on mental health, visit https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help.

To learn more about how you can help the LGBTQ+ community, check out https://www.glaad.org/.

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On Friday, the Algerian boxer won her first gold medal after defeating Yang Liu of China in the women’s 66kg category by unanimous decision! Take that haters! See the incredible moment (below):

https://youtu.be/JjqCmlwPHuM?si=S_ljkQjGKuq-oKL3

Related: Olympics Viewers Suffer ‘Second Hand Embarrassment’ For Now Viral Breaking Performance!

Of course, Imane is “very happy” about her accomplishment. According to CNN, she said after the fight:

“For eight years, this has been my dream and I’m now the Olympic champion and gold medallist, I’ve worked for eight years, no sleep, eight years tired. Now I’m Olympic champion. I want to thank all the people who have come to support me. All the people from Algeria and all the people at my base. I want to thank all the team, my coach. Thank you so much.”

Amazing!!! What makes her big win even sweeter? It’s the ultimate eff you to all the bullies out there! As you know, Imane has been fighting it out in and out of the ring as she faced intense online bullying from people like Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling. During a preliminary match, Imane was up against Italian boxer Angela Carini. However, Angela abandoned their bout just 46 seconds in. She claimed she was punched so hard she didn’t want to continue the fight, even going as far as to say she felt more “pain” than when she trained with men.

Well, the match sparked a ton of online abuse toward Imane, all because of those comments. Many transphobic people attacked her for being transgender — when she’s not! She is a woman. She was born female. She is not intersex. See, Imane was disqualified from the boxing world championships last year after failing an unspecified gender eligibility test from the International Boxing Association. Mind you, they refused to release the results of their test. This also came after Imane competed FOR YEARS without any issues. And this test doesn’t mean she is a trans woman. She reportedly just had high levels of testosterone and XY chromosomes.

But because she looks masculine, anti-trans folks cruelly bullied her on social media. Well, look who is getting the last laugh now. Imane ignored the awful chatter and came out on top! Oh, and a message for all the haters on the internet! She said after her victory:

“As for whether I qualify or not, or whether I am a woman or not, I have made many statements in the media. I am fully qualified to take part in this competition. I’m a woman like any other woman. I was born a woman, I lived a woman, I competed as a woman, there’s no doubt about that. There are enemies of success, that is what I call them. And that also gives my success a special taste because of these attacks.”

Congratulations to Imane!!! Reactions, Perezcious readers? Let us know in the comments.

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When thinking of Euphoria, one wouldn’t typically associate its viewing audience with a Christian congregation. But what about if one of the show’s leads was a pastor’s daughter? Well, that’s Hunter’s exact predicament! While on the Call Her Daddy on Wednesday, the trans 25-year-old rising star told host Alex Cooper:

“My dad [Mac] is a pastor, and my mom [Katy] is — she’s ordained to be a pastor — she works in the children’s ministry in the church.”

Yikes!

Related: Tori Spelling Talks Anal, Orgasms, & More NSFW Topics With 93-Year-Old William Shatner!

Anyone who’s remotely familiar with Euphoria will know how popular Christian values definitely don’t align whatsoever with the show, which depicts graphic underage sex, self harm, explicit drug use, and more. Hunter dished:

“There’s this whole, like, ‘pastor’s daughter’ trope, you know? And it gets kind of tough because, like, obviously what I do now is very — I mean, when I got my first job, I had to tell my parents that I was doing a TV show and in the first episode I’m having anal sex with a 45-year-old and cutting myself in the arm.”

In the show’s first episode, Hunter’s character Jules, who is supposed to be just 17 years old, has a graphic sex scene with Eric Dane’s character Cal — father of Jacob Elordi’s character Nate. We’d remind y’all the Grey’s Anatomy alum was nearly 50 years old when the scene was filmed! Later, Hunter’s character goes to a house party where she’s harassed by Nate, leading her to cut herself.

We bet that was quite the difficult pill Hunter’s parents to swallow! And even worse, for the whole congregation! She explained:

“They have to tell their congregation that their kid’s going to be on TV, and that their congregation who are just little old nice white Christian people from the South are going to watch this TV show and see me getting butt f**ked.”

We’re sure a lot of prayer took place after that! A different kind of holy…

The HBO star revealed she feels bad to this day “because that’s something that they still have to deal with.” But it’s not going to get in the way of her career! Hunter has a brief role in Emma Stone‘s new movie Kinds of Kindness, which spoiler alert, is pretty stripped down. She playfully revealed, “I got my titties out,” which she has “no personal problems with.” She noted:

“But it is something where I’m like some people just aren’t going to get it, and, you know, that’s a whole other thing.”

Her work isn’t for everyone! You can listen to the full podcast episode (below):

Thoughts, Perezcious readers??

[Images via Call Her Daddy/YouTube & Euphoria/Max]

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Last year, the Euphoria co-stars called it quits on their relationship after more than a year together. There weren’t too many details that emerged at the time as they both kept things pretty hush-hush. But Dom revealed in an interview with Apple Music last summer that he’s “done being in relationships right now.” As for his ex, she told GQ earlier this year she had to “exorcise a lot of the breakup feelings.”

Damn, so it must have been a pretty rough breakup, right? Or at the very least, one that at least left her in a really dark place. Well, now we know why…

Related: Jennifer Lopez Source Gives NEW Reason For Ben Affleck Split!

In Wednesday’s installment of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Cuckoo star finally opened up about what really went down between her and her fellow HBO star. She told host Alex Cooper:

“Part of why the relationship ended is because I got cheated on for the first time. “

Oh no…

The 25-year-old revealed that the breach in trust left a forever mark on her:

“It’s part of my truth, but that fundamentally changed me as a person.”

So sad! Earlier in the episode, she said she had been “head over heels in love,” with the Babydoll singer, which is just so heartbreaking.

Hunter went on to reveal that as a trans woman, Dominic was the first ever straight, cisgender man she’d opened her heart to, AND her first ever monogamous relationship — so to find out about his infidelity unfortunately made her blame herself:

“As a trans woman, with a man who has never dated that [type of person] before … Because of the way I’ve been socialized as a trans woman, it’s been this crux in my life of why life has been so hard sometimes, I was like, ‘Oh, god is this it? Can I just not?’”

Ugh, poor Hunter! She didn’t deserve any of that! We hope she’s learned since that almost EVERYONE gets cheated on by the first straight, cisgender man they open their heart to. It’s kind of a rite of passage tbh.

Ultimately, she realized “cheating has nothing to do with you and everything to do with that person, and whatever pain they’re in, and whatever they’re dealing with” — but that didn’t make the shock of it all any less “hard” to go through.

Revealing how she found out, the Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes actress revealed she “kind of knew,” and because of that, she went through his phone, which she’s “not proud of.” But hey, clearly it was the right move.

But even with all that said, Hunter revealed her split from the 27-year-old was “one of the cleaner breakups [she’s] had.” She explained:

“We both recognized that ‘This is not working and we can’t do this. We gotta go our own separate ways.’ It was so hard. We loved each other. He was a really special person.”

Part of that reason was because she felt that he “saw me exactly as who I was,” and “didn’t care at all” what people had to say. For that reason, she said, she has “no interest in letting the public into what happened.” She strongly added:

“I want to make this very clear: I have no f**king desire because what happened with that was between me and him and I want to keep it and I want to protect that, but at the same time I’m also here to talk about my truth.”

You can listen to the full episode (below):

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The Tesla founder went on a disturbing transphobic rant about his 20-year-old transgender daughter last month, purposely misgendering her by saying his “son” was dead — “killed by the woke mind virus.” Gross.

Vivian immediately hit back at his disgusting comments, but she isn’t done. It seemed before she was content to distance herself from the controversial businessman as he leaned into dirty politics. (He’s even reportedly under investigation for an apparent fake “voter registration” scheme.) But he brought her back into it. So she’s not letting him get away with his rebrand as some kind of family values Republican.

Related: Grimes Takes Ex Elon Musk’s Daughter Vivian’s Side In War Of Words

It started with a video one of his blue check sycophants posted on X (Twitter) to show how much of a priority Elon considers family. Elon responded by saying “all five” of his sons were “super happy”:

All 5 boys super happy

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 4, 2024

Well, this was too much for Vivian.

Like we said, he was the one who started this fight. But she’s going to finish it by the looks of it! She posted a grab of the comment on her Threads, firing back at dear ol’ dad:

“Look, I don’t know if you genuinely believe this or if you live in your own delusional fantasy land and frankly, I don’t care. It seems to me like you’re trying to rebuild your brand image as the ‘caring paternal father’ which I will not let go unchallenged. If I’m going to be honest, this is absolutely pathetic. You just won’t stop lying about me in interviews, books, social media, etc. Thank god you’re absolutely terrible at it because otherwise this would be significantly more difficult. Like… ‘neomarxist/communist who was brainwashed at high school to be trans and ‘think being rich is evil’ is the best you could go with… really? Like….. really?! If you’re going to lie about me, why would you choose a method so obnoxious in its stupidity. It’s beyond stupid, it’s desperate. The fact anyone believed this for even five seconds is beyond me. Not to mention going out of your way to misgender me which is both completely transparent and honestly just sad.”

Then she went for his rebrand — spilling tea about how he can’t hide the fact he’s a womanizing cheater!

“I understand your new angle is this ‘western values/christian family man’ thing but it’s such a weird choice. You are not a family man, you are a serial adulterer who won’t stop f**king lying about your own children.”

Damn! And she also went after the fact, like his pal Donald Trump, he’s just pretending to be a Christian for PR:

“You are not a christian, as far as I’m aware you’ve never stepped foot in a church.”

It’s true, Elon has been putting on the facade of a pearl-clutching churchgoer — like when he called the Olympics opening ceremony “satanic” because it had trans folks. Meanwhile he’s literally wearing a Baphomet sigil in his profile pic! LOLz! She continued by talking about his racism she’s personally witnessed:

“You are not some ‘bastion for equality/progress’. You called arabic the “language of the enemy” when I was 6, have been sued for discrimation [sic] multiple times, and are from Apartheid South Africa.”

Damn! And she kept pouring!

“You are not ‘saving the planet’, you do not give a f**k about climate change and you’re lying about multi-planetary civilization as both an excuse, and because you want to seem like the CEO from Ready Player One.”

OMG, what a burn! Even calling out his aspirations as being from a pathetically immature! She

“I would mention the birth rate stuff, but I am not touching that weird 14-words breeder s**t with a ten foot pole.”

Oh, that’s OK. We did a whole whole article about how that nonsense he was spreading about the birth rate was an old white supremacist theory! BTW, “14-words” is a euphemism — it refers to a white supremacist slogan. She’s implying he’s a Nazi!

Vivian concluded her diatribe:

“You single-handedly disillusioned me with how gullible we are as a species because somehow people keep believing you for reasons that continue to evade me.”

Damn. Who’s dead to whom? Because that was straight patricide, y’all!

[Image via Vivian Jenna Wilson/TikTok/MEGA/WENN.]

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If you haven’t been following, the Algerian boxer has been at the center of one of the Olympics worst scandals, in which people like J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have been attacking her for being trans — even though she’s not! Like, at all!

Here’s the deal. On Thursday, she won a match against Italian boxer Angela Carini, who bowed out after just 46 seconds. Carini claimed she suffered such a hard punch she didn’t want to go any further, suggesting she was in more “pain” than she’d been when training with men. Well, everyone who has been anti-trans, especially in sports, latched on to Angela’s comments and started criticizing Imane’s win.

Related: Pole Vaulter Sends Internet Into A Frenzy After His ‘Huge’ Penis Costs Him Olympic Medal!

See, Imane was disqualified from the 2023 boxing world championships after failing an unspecified gender eligibility test from the International Boxing Association — despite having competed for years without problems. And btw, failing this test doesn’t mean she’s a trans woman! She just has high levels of testosterone and supposedly XY chromosomes, according to reports. (Again, this is all from the IBA, who refuse to release the results of their tests.)

But we’re talking about a woman who was born female who has been living as a female, who has a female passport, who is in no way intersex or anything — apart from supposedly failing that test and having high testosterone. Again, it’s something a lot of women have. Even the XY chromosomes don’t mean she’s secretly a man, that’s also something which can happen with women — because real life isn’t a 7th grade biology class. However, the anti-LGBT crowd are jumping on her because she looks masculine, so they’ve made up their minds despite facts. And they won’t let her forget it. They’re even attacking other women who look particularly strong. It’s so gross. Read up on all the drama HERE.

As Imane’s Olympic journey continues, she finally opened up about this controversy in a candid interview with SNTV (a sports video partner of the Associated Press). On Sunday, the 25-year-old said, via translation:

“I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes, because this has effects, massive effects.”

Remarking on the very harmful effects of bullying, she continued:

“It can destroy people, it can kill people’s thoughts, spirit and mind. It can divide people. And because of that, I ask them to refrain from bullying.”

She went on to discuss the challenges this scandal has caused both to her and her family while she competes in the biggest event of her career, adding:

“I am in contact with my family two days a week. I hope that they weren’t affected deeply. They are worried about me. God willing, this crisis will culminate in a gold medal, and that would be the best response.”

That would be an AMAZING way to get back at all her haters!

The boxer also sent her thanks to the International Olympic Committee and its president Thomas Bach for standing by her and cutting ties with the International Boxing Association, which was behind her previous disqualification. Per the outlet, Imane declined to specify whether she had undergone tests other than doping tests, noting that she didn’t want to talk about it. But she did express:

“I know that the Olympic Committee has done me justice, and I am happy with this remedy because it shows the truth.”

And while she’s obviously aware of the discourse surrounding her, she is avoiding it as much as possible:

“Honestly, I don’t follow social media. There is a mental health team that doesn’t let us follow social media, especially in the Olympic Games, whether me or other athletes. I’m here to compete and get a good result.”

Good strategy! Who would be able to concentrate with the horrible things people say on Twitter clogging your brain??

Here’s hoping she stays focused on the sport and comes out on top! Her next match will be on Tuesday as she competes in the semifinals. Addressing her emotional quarterfinals win in Saturday’s game, she shared:

“I couldn’t control my nerves. Because after the media frenzy and after the victory, there was a mix of joy and at the same time, I was greatly affected, because honestly, it wasn’t an easy thing to go through at all. It was something that harms human dignity.”

Oof.

So awful that she has to deal with this! See her full reaction to the controversy (below):

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OK, so if you haven’t seen what started the latest controversy at the Paris 2024 Olympics, there was a women’s boxing match between competitors from the countries of Algeria and Italy. Italian Angela Carini withdrew from her fight with Algerian Imane Khelif after just 46 seconds, saying she’d never been hit so hard before and had to “preserve her life.”

Angela was crying after the match and heard saying the match was “unfair” to her coaches. Whoa. She told reporters:

“I couldn’t carry on. I have a big pain in my nose and I said, ‘Stop’. It’s better to avoid keeping going. My nose started dripping from the first hit. It could be the match of my life but, in that moment, I had to safeguard my life, too… I fought very often in the national team. I train with my brother. I’ve always fought against men, but I felt too much pain today.”

But what did she mean about it not being fair? Well, the Algerian boxer was disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships last year when the International Boxing Association deemed she had failed a gender eligibility test. She had high levels of testosterone and, apparently, XY chromosomes. We’ll come back to that… but for now, you need to know that was all some people needed to hear — because it meant they could continue their anti-trans crusade.

The Anti-Trans Crusaders

Many picked up the torch from Angela and ran with it, setting fire to as much as possible along the way. Familiar trans-obsessives like JK Rowling and Elon Musk have weighed in, along with tons of other online commenters who have been conscripted into the culture wars and whipped up into an anti-LGBT panic.

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Rowling, who was once known as a sensitive author of children’s books, believe it or not, posted:

Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/Q5SbKiksXQ

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 1, 2024

Elon, how has his own controversial personal history with trans issues, weighed in:

Absolutely https://t.co/twccUEOW9e

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2024

Donald Trump posted that he will “keep men out of women’s sports” — as a caption on a video of the fight, implying he has bought into the idea Khelif is a “man”:

And on and on and on like that. Just droves attacking Imane Khelif, saying since she’s trans she’s actually a man posing as a woman to compete…

Imane’s Actual Condition

But remember when we said we weren’t talking about trans women in sports? That’s the kicker here. Imane Khelif is NOT TRANS! She’s not intersex. She’s not non-binary. She’s a woman. Born female.

Her high testosterone and XY chromosomes caused quite a row with folks who have a strict, black-and-white idea of what makes a man or a woman. Of course, actual biology doesn’t care about these ideas. It’s not actually as simple as you’re taught in the 101 high school level of biology. The human body is complex. Some women have high testosterone levels and even XY chromosomes due to different conditions.

In Imane’s case, she has some differences of sexual development, or DSDs. This is the collective name for a variety of conditions which cause people to develop slightly differently than the basic idea of two sexes — total XX or XY, the exact amount of estrogen or testosterone, etc. But she is a woman. Born a woman, lived as a woman, has female sex organs and genitalia. She just also has very high testosterone for a woman which makes her better at things like putting on muscle.

The International Boxing Association that disqualified her used to oversee Olympic boxing, but no longer. The IBA doesn’t have any sway anymore. Their gender eligibility test was vague and is not considered reasonable by the International Olympic Committee — who are totally satisfied Imane is a woman. The IOC in a statement on Thursday called the IBA’s disqualification an “arbitrary decision, which was taken without any proper procedure — especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years.” Spokesperson Mark Adams said Friday:

“The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport.”

Again, THIS IS A WOMAN. FROM BIRTH.

Now, do her biological differences give her an edge? Absolutely. But isn’t that true of men born taller being better at basketball? Track athletes who produce less lactic acid get take longer to get tired. Hell, Michael Phelps is regularly described as a freak of nature as his lung capacity and wingspan seem genetically engineered to make him the perfect swimmer. But at no point did anyone ever say he shouldn’t compete.

By the way, the narrative JK and Elon and others are obviously pushing is one about a man competing in a woman’s sport, right? And dominating due to biological factors? The thing is, not only do the facts of this particular case not match up with what they’re propagating, the stats don’t either!

At the 2020 Olympics, she only made it to the quarterfinals, being defeated by Ireland’s Kellie Harrington. In 2022 she got second place at the Women’s World Boxing Championships. In all she has an amateur record of 37-9. Nine times other women have beaten her. Impressive, for sure, but hardly dominant. But again, that doesn’t fit the narrative, so you won’t hear those stats from the pitchfork-wielding jerks yelling about trans people. Speaking of the mob…

Other Athletes Being Targeted

No, this is all about wanting to attack the trans community. You know that old saying, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail? Well, when all you have is bigotry, everything apparently looks like trans women.

Imane is not the only athlete being attacked as actually being “a man.” Over the past couple days, rugby star Ilona Maher, who led the USA to gold, has been called trans, a man in drag, and more. Why? She’s built stronger and tougher than a lot of guys. She’s glorious and gorgeous — but she doesn’t fit the super narrow definition of what these folks have decided a woman is.

Ilona posted a video in which she described in tears the attacks she gets online:

“I get comments being called a man and being called masculine and asking if i’m on steroids. There will always be negative people out there. And they put women in a box. And they think women should be fragile and petite and quiet and meek. But that’s not the case.”

You know who else is getting the same treatment? Gold medal swimmer Katie Ledecky! Yes, really!

Same BS, she’s buff and therefore doesn’t fit a bunch of insecure men’s idea of a woman…

JK and Elon and their ilk have turned this into a new Red Scare, but instead of communists the mob are calling everyone secret trans women. It’s really gross what they’re doing. And dangerous.

Important to note: Imane comes from Algeria, an extremely conservative country. Being gay or trans is illegal. You know, much like Trump and JD Vance would like to make it in this country. This means if the boxer’s home country did buy into all these online accusations they could imprison her. This BS isn’t just hurting her chances of finishing out the Olympics, it’s actually endangering her life and her freedom.

The Apology

One last note… Angela Carini, the woman who kind of started all this? She’s actually really upset about that! She told Italian paper Gazzetta dello Sport, per the BBC:

“All this controversy makes me sad. I’m sorry for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision.”

She even specifically apologized for not shaking Imane’s hand after the fight:

“It wasn’t something I intended to do. Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke.”

Angela said if she saw her opponent again, she would “embrace her.”

Even the woman who fought her, the woman who got beaten so badly, recognizes her fellow competitor is a woman. The person for whom it matters most. All these crusaders, who have no expertise or skin in the game, and who really are just exploring their obsession some more…? They’re nominally in the corner of someone who TOTALLY DISAGREES WITH THEM!

Like we said, trans athletes taking part in sports is a tricky wicket. We don’t know what the answer is ultimately. We do know it’s the area these transphobes attack the most because it’s the most difficult. Because if they just attacked Joe or Jenny Q. Trans out here, just knitting or doing carpentry or playing video games or trying to figure out which pineapple is ripe? They don’t have a damn leg to stand on. They know they’ll just come across as weirdos attacking normal people trying to live their lives. So this is what they do. Even when there’s no trans athlete to attack…

[Image via ELBILAD TV/YouTube/MEGA/WENN.]

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