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Updated: 01/08/2024 at 20:43
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GENERATED 📈 ON: 01/08/2024 - 20:43
Bolsonarist politicians spread misinformation about intersex athlete as transgender woman. COI criticizes IBA eligibility tests. Algerian boxer 📈 Imane Khelif wins and is target of attacks and rumors. Deputies and senators generate controversy over the athlete's gender identity.
Bolsonarist 📈 politicians use social networks to share false information about intersex boxer Imane Khelif
Bolsonarist politicians have used social networks to share 📈 false information about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. The parliamentarians referred to the athlete - who is intersex - as a 📈 transsexual woman or "biological man" to question her participation in the Paris 2024 Olympics, after the boxer's victory in the 📈 first round of the women's boxing category up to 66kg.
Understanding intersex and trans issues
Intersex people are born with sexual characteristics 📈 that do not fit the typically available definitions for male or female bodies. This can include traits of sexual anatomy, 📈 reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomes.
On the other hand, a transsexual person has a gender identity different from the biological 📈 sex assigned at birth. In this case, a trans woman is the person who identifies as female, although she was 📈 born biologically as part of the male sex and gender.
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Deputy federal Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG)
Shared 📈 a video showing a segment of the fight this Thursday. He claims, without any basis in the boxer's own statements, 📈 that Carini gave up the fight after finding a "biological man hitting her face much harder". In another moment of 📈 the recording, the parliamentarian refers to the Algerian as a "trans" person.
Senator Eduardo Girão (PL-RJ)
Shared an image of Carini crying 📈 after the fight and wrote that it was "shameful to see a biological man hitting a woman with people watching 📈 and finding it good". Girão also shared a post by volleyball player and Olympic medalist Tandara Caixeta, a candidate for 📈 city councilor in São Paulo by the PL. She wrote that "we are in an era that pays to watch 📈 a man breaking a woman's nose and clapping". Tandara also wrongly stated that the winning boxer would be a "trans 📈 woman".