Calls to boycott the Paris Olympics are growing louder followed a boxing match between a female fighter and a biological man who knocked her out in the opening seconds of the bout.

Angela Carini of Italy abandoned her pursuit of a gold medal after sparring with Algeria’s Imane Khelif who failed a gender test but was allowed to compete in the female division. The match lasted just 46 seconds before Carini threw in the towel, prompting outcries from prominent swimmer and women’s sports activist Riley Gaines, among others. “Men don’t belong in women’s sports #IStandWithAngelaCarini” wrote the former University of Kentucky swimmer Thursday morning on X. In less than four hours her viral post had been reposted more than 82,000 times and received 7,700 comments.

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After absorbing several powerful punches from the Algerian fighter, Carini retreated to her corner where she informed her coach that her nose hurt too much to continue. A ref waved the fight over and the Italian boxer kneeled down in the ring in defeat ā€œSheā€™s too strong,ā€ Renzini recalled Carini telling him, according to Yahoo! Sports. In a heartbreaking scrum with reporters 20 minutes after the fight, Carini apologized to her nation for failing to last more than a minute. “I had entered the ring to fight,” Carini said in Italian after. “I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I go out with my head held high.”

Even pro-trans sports activists were shocked at the outcome, criticizing the Olympics for allowing the match to go forward. “Once again I will start with the disclaimer that I have compassion for anyone who is transitioning, is trans or is suffering from gender dysphoria, wrote @Jason on X. “What we are seeing at the Olympics is insane. They should restart this competition and remove the biological males. This is profoundly unfair and extremely dangerous. Someone will be killed.

“And to the person who is a biological male and insists on competing with this massive advantage, I question your ethics and morality.”

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Both Khalief and Chinese Tapeiā€™s Lin Yuā€‘ting controversially entered the women’s division as biological men despite previous disqualifications in the sport. During last year’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, Khelif was disqualified after the International Boxing Association ruled that fighters with XY chromosomes would no longer be allowed to fight against biological women. Yu-Ting was disqualified from a bronze medal fight during the same competition. Since then, the International Olympic Committee has stripped the IBA of its status as the sport’s governing body and operated under more relaxed rules established by the IOCā€™s Paris 2024 Boxing unit.

IOC spokesperson Mark Adams deflected when asked about whether the committee bears any responsibility for the outcome of the match. ā€œI would just say that everyone competing in the women’s category is complying with the competition eligibility rules. They are women in their passports,” he told the news outlet. ā€œThese athletes competed many times before for many years,ā€ Adams added. ā€œThey didnā€™t just suddenly arrive.ā€

The IBA countered that it undertook a “meticulous review” of fighters’ qualifications before last year’s international championship. “While IBA remains committed to ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we express concern over the inconsistent application of eligibility criteria by other sporting organizations, including those overseeing the Olympic Games,” the IBA said in its statement. “The IOCā€™s differing regulations on these matters, in which IBA is not involved, raise serious questions about both competitive fairness and athletesā€™ safety.”

Former boxer Ryan Garcia was apoplectic. “Now men who turned themselves into woman. Can fight woman in the Olympics. Boycott the Olympics this trans s*** is getting way outta fucking hand. Ainā€™t no way a man should be beating up on a woman,” he wrote on X.

Best-selling author John LeFevre tied Vice President Kamala Harris to the melee and suggested she would support overhauls of Title IX laws to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports at all levels. Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) raged as well, writing, “The consequence of the insane trans ideology is on full display at the Olympics: biological men pretending to be women beating up female boxers, with full IOC approval. In the name of equality, they are putting actual women in danger.”

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