I have always considered myself a moderate and reasonable person.
For the woke left, I am therefore a complete reactionary, ideological trash.
You know what? I LOVE it when they hate me.
Photo provided by Katia Bissonnette
Equity
Today I will make my case worse in their eyes.
I like boxing. Well yes, thing, I like that. I go there occasionally.
Of course, boxing is sometimes infamous, when it is too unequal.
But I challenge anyone to look at Hagler-Hearns, Ward-Gatti I or Duran-Leonard I without being transfixed.
Boxing is the assumed recognition, the organized channeling of a fundamental impulse in human beings, of obviously variable intensity: combat.
Ban boxing and it will go underground, as was often the case.
In a ring, you can’t hide or ask the trainer to be replaced.
Science has decided, I know: the consequences on the brain are undeniable, sometimes terrible, as with American football.
In life, we assess risks, we make choices, we use the assets we have, and we assume the consequences.
This is also a disturbing reminder these days.
- Listen to Joseph Facal’s column via QUB :
Safety rules and their application are therefore crucial in boxing.
Katia Bissonnette, now 36 years old, is an absolutely astonishing young woman.
Ex-drug addict, she takes control of her life and seeks a doctorate in psychology.
For her physical and psychological well-being, she seriously practices amateur boxing.
In October, fearing for her safety, she refused to confront Mya Walmsley, having learned at the last moment that it was a biological man.
Boxing Canada refused to say whether Walmsley had undergone sexual reassignment surgery, or even to reveal his testosterone levels.
In any case, disclosure or not, science has now established beyond any doubt that, surgery or not, taking hormones or not, a person born male will retain the physical advantages linked to their original sex.
In boxing, categories are based on weight. But for equal weight, compare the bones of the hands, and therefore the fists, of a man and a woman.
Imagine the possible consequences. Ah, but Walmsley feels and calls herself a woman.
This is his strictest right, but I don’t see why his right would supplant Bissonnette’s right to a fight based on fair rules and as safe as possible.
We play tennis, we play hockey, but we don’t play boxing.
Honored
Taking up the already worn tape of gender theory activists, Walmsley says he finds the possible measurement of his testosterone level “intrusive”, insufficient in any case.
What about the doping tests commonly administered to high-level athletes? Aren’t they “intrusive”?
The World Boxing Council awarded Bissonnette a medal to honor his refusal to fight, a clear message sent to the Canadian authorities.
Anti-scientific wokism also makes one irresponsible.