After the Paris 2024 Olympics boxing shame, MAUREEN CALLAHAN rages at trans-dogma trolls and dares to ask: Will a female athlete have to die for this gender lunacy to end?

Does a woman have to die before this madness stops?

The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will be forever and rightly marred by the fact that a boxer posing as male is allowed to fight a biological woman.

Italian boxer Angela Carini was hit hard on the nose, tore off her helmet and ended the match after 46 seconds.

Her rival, Algeria’s Imane Khelif, towered over her with her biceps.

Khelif failed two “sex tests” in March 2023 and was banned from competing against women by the International Boxing Federation.

“This is unfair,” Carini shouted.

Yes, that’s the perfect word: unjust.

Women are still fighting for their own basic rights, and that includes not being forced to compete with someone who is not biologically a woman.

And so this boxing match — an atrocity, a set-up, not a match of equals — was inevitable. Carini could have died.

What she experienced was, in my opinion, nothing less than a televised attack.

“I stopped to save my life,” she said Thursday. “I couldn’t breathe.”

This proud fighter—“my father taught me to be a warrior,” she said—lay on her knees in defeat, weeping and inconsolable.

Angela, the women of the world are crying with you. And we are furious.

“I’ve never had such a blow,” Carini said after she withdrew. “It’s impossible to continue.”

She declined to comment further on her opponent’s apparent biological advantages, because that, of course, would be the real crime.

“I’m not in a position to say: this is right or wrong.”

Let me just say it: this is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss on X: ‘When will this madness end?’

Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies: ‘A bloody disgrace. It effectively legalises wife-beating.’

JK Rowling: ‘What will it take to end this madness? A female boxer with life-changing injuries? A female boxer who has died?’

Jake Paul, Team USA’s boxing coach: “This is disgusting. This is a parody. It doesn’t matter what you believe. This is wrong and dangerous.”

Carini, a 25-year-old welterweight, was pitted against Khelif, a 25-year-old amateur boxer who, according to tests conducted by the International Boxing Association, has XY (male) chromosomes, suggesting that Khelif was born intersex.

Khelif ‘identifies’ as a woman, yet she was blocked by the IBA from competing against biological women at last year’s world championships.

But the IBA was then removed from governing her sport by the International Olympic Committee. And the IOC in turn gave Khelif permission to fight Carini, but won’t say how or why – only that Khelif met their “criteria.”

“Federations need to set the rules to ensure that there is fairness,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said this week, “but at the same time it allows everyone who wants to participate to do so. It’s a difficult balance.”

Is that just generic, standard nonsense?

We are now in incredibly dangerous territory.

This is not a male-bodied athlete competing against women in non-contact sports like swimming or cycling.

Boxing is a violent, bloody sport that has killed athletes in the ring. Even the great Muhammad Ali was eventually struck down by Parkinson’s, probably caused by too many blows.

There’s a reason boxers are divided by weight: 17 classes for men and women.

Ross Tucker, professor of sports science, told the Mail that this was the equivalent of a 200lb boxer battling someone weighing 130lb.

“That’s kind of the difference, in strength and power, between male and female boxers,” he said. “You can’t condone an advantage that can cause harm and say, ‘Women have to accept that.'”

But that’s exactly what we’re told all the time.

Whether it’s prisons, student unions, school toilets, shelters, high school and college sports, and now the Olympics, the message has come through loud and clear: women don’t matter.

After this poor excuse for a fight, Carini’s coach, Emanuele Renzini, said the unspeakable.

‘Many people in Italy tried to call her and said: ‘Please don’t go. He’s a man. It’s dangerous for you.’

But the IOC, like so many other institutions corrupted by woke ideology, seems more interested in political correctness and not offending gender non-conforming athletes than in protecting women.

Just look at Carini’s rival, grinning and strutting around the track as if he’s winning a hard-fought championship.

Carini raises her fist in the air in victory, while looking down with her shoulders slumped and patting her on the back in a condescending manner.

Khelif showed no remorse, no shock, no sorrow. No sportsmanship, so to speak.

No, just an unbearable, unearned pride in defeating a challenger who never stood a chance—and calling on God to do so.

“Difficult for a first fight,” Khelif said.

Does this person really exist?

‘Insha’Allah [if Allah wills it] for the second match,’ Khelif added. ‘I need an Olympic medal, here in Paris.’

Me, me, me. Not a single thought for Carini, who struggles to hold her battered head high as she endures a global, completely unnecessary humiliation.

Her hard work, her sacrifices, the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream, all destroyed in 46 seconds. Still, Khelif beams.

It is unbelievable that at the time of writing the IOC is allowing this scandalous athlete to compete against another biological woman on Saturday.

Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, Olympic officials now say Khelif has Real victim here, victim of ‘abuse’ and ‘discrimination’.

What an absolute disgrace the IOC is. They have failed every female athlete, every female coach and fan, every girl who is currently training to one day make her mark.

Who at the IOC will stand up to this contempt?

Or will another female athlete have to risk her life, and possibly lose it, to let sanity prevail?