To the editor: The phrase “magnanimous” was not used appropriately in your article on the gender points in Olympic girls’s boxing.
Italian boxer Angela Carini’s incapability to guard her face and head is not any justification for her later crying and telling her crew, “It’s not truthful,” and refusing to shake Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s hand, fueling the incorrect, hateful feedback that Khelif is transgender.
The Instances’ portrayal of Carini as being magnanimous in strolling again her feedback highlights the implicit bias on this entire affair: Anybody not white and profitable should be a monster or a cheat.
Hassan Abdul-Wahid, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The obsession with Khelif is changing into absurd.
In lots of sports activities, the highest athletes are sometimes discovered to have benefits which are the results of genetics. These benefits embody:
Being very tall; having an unusually giant stride whereas sprinting; having a a lot greater ache threshold; having an unusually giant lung capability; having an abundance of fast-twitch muscle fibers. The listing goes on.
Khelif was born feminine, has at all times boxed as a feminine, and has been defeated by females.
Let’s cease making mountains out of molehills. There are far too many really critical issues on this planet that truly deserve our consideration.
David Tempest, Mar Vista
