Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1050 | Trump Rejoins X, Imane Khelif is Male, & Olympics Gospel Moments

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

Today we close out the 2024 Paris Olympics coverage by looking at some of the great inspiring gospel moments at the games. We highlight Olympians like American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and her gold i...n the 400m hurdles and Rayssa Leal and her bronze in skateboarding, quoting John 14:6 in sign language. German shot-putter Yemisi Ogunleye celebrated her gold with gospel music, and Novak Djokovic gave thanks to God after his victory in men’s tennis. We also revisit the controversial women's boxing gold medals awarded to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who were previously disqualified by the International Boxing Association due to genetic testing. Finally, we dive into Monday night’s X Spaces with Donald Trump and Elon Musk and discuss the significance of Trump's return to X for his election campaign. Get your tickets for Share the Arrows: https://www.sharethearrows.com/ Pre-order Allie's new book: https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (01:00) Introduction (2:00) Trump returns to X (09:00) Trump’s policy proposals (29:00) 'Evangelicals for Harris' (34:00) Algerian boxer Imane Khelif  (46:00) Gospel moments at the Olympics --- Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers — Fire up the grill this Labor Day with premium American meat from GoodRanchers.com—use code ALLIE for $25 off, free shipping, and a free add-on for a whole year! We Heart Nutrition — Get 20% off women's vitamins with We Heart Nutrition, where 10% of every purchase supports Pregnancy Care centers; use code ALLIE at https://www.WeHeartNutrition.com.f Lumen Focus On The Family — Subscribe to "Focus on the Family" with Jim Daly today on your favorite podcast platform or visit focusonthefamilywithjimdaly.com Jase Medical — Enter now for a chance to win a Jase Case for life at https://www.jase.com/allie , and use promo code “ALLIE” at checkout for a discount — giveaway ends August 31st! Lumen — If you want to take the next step in improving your health, go to https://www.lumen.me/RELATABLE to get 15% off your Lumen. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 1049 | Tim Walz: Deployment Dodging & Food Fraud https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1049-tim-walz-deployment-dodging-food-fraud/id1359249098?i=1000665073424 Ep 1045 | Kamala Harris: America’s Meanest Politician https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1045-kamala-harris-americas-meanest-politician/id1359249098?i=1000664407205 Ep 480 | Better Than ‘Be the Bridge:’ Biblical Unity | Guest: Monique Duson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-480-better-than-be-the-bridge-biblical-unity-guest/id1359249098?i=1000533902626  --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Eman Khalif, the Algerian boxer, won a gold medal, but the controversy surrounding Khalif is ongoing. Now, people who know Khalif are speaking out saying that, yes, Khalif is indeed male. We will get into all the details on that. Also, Trump and Elon Musk spoke last night on X and Trump started posting on X. Lots of really important and interesting things. And then also, we will. will end this episode on a very happy note as we look at some of the Olympians who gave glory to God when they had the platform to do so during the Olympic Games. This episode is brought to by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com. Use code Alley at checkout. That's GoTo-Ranchers.com. Code Allie. Hey, guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. Okay, today is the last day of the week that you will have to bear with us with how all this sounds with how this looks. Hopefully, though, today it's a little more consistent than it was yesterday. I appreciate how gracious you guys always are whenever we have any kind of technical
Starting point is 00:01:18 changes or difficulties. Okay, we've got a lot to get through today, but we covered some politics, election politics yesterday. So I didn't want to dedicate today's show to that. I wanted to talk about something that is a little bit more positive, some things that are a little bit funnier and patriotic. but I do because of some political news yesterday. I have to touch on at least some of it before we get into all of the Olympics things. And that is some big news that Donald Trump is back on X. You'll remember after the January 6th debacle a few years ago, he got off X, he was kicked off X. Remember just the mass censorship that happened after that? Even to people who weren't in any way associated with January 6th, meta, Twitter at the time, took all of these accounts down, censored all of these accounts, conservative commentators lost like hundreds of thousands of followers right after that. It was very crazy, very dystopian, very scary. And Trump, he was kicked off X and then when Elon Musk bought X shortly after that,
Starting point is 00:02:30 I think it was, I don't know, several months after he bought X, he actually restored Donald Trump's account. but Donald Trump has truth social. And so he posts almost exclusively to that, except for last night. It was a dawn of a new day. And Donald Trump decided, okay, I'm going to reopen my ex account. And I'm going to host a Twitter spaces with Elon Musk. And they talked about a variety of things, a range of topics, including the recent assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. And while I don't think a Twitter spaces is going to reach. that many people. I know that there were a lot of people on it, but I'm talking about in proportion to the United States, it's a pretty small percentage of people. I still think it's important because we are experiencing, as we have for the past several years, especially in election years, the suppression of certain information and certain vantage points. I've noticed this. Even when I use Duck, Duck Go, it is really hard to find information.
Starting point is 00:03:34 about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And while I haven't tried this on chat GBT, someone that I trust, who is not even a conservative commentator. She just said, you know, some of you have been sharing me that chat with me that, gosh, chat GPT, tongue-tied, will not talk about the assassination attempt. And so you guys can try this if you have tried chat GBT before. but she just typed in, when was the assassination attempt on Donald Trump? Can you tell me about it? And chat, GBT, this AI bot said there's never been an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. He has never actually been shot at.
Starting point is 00:04:21 There has been security threats. There's been things that his campaign has been worried about. But nothing has actually ever come to fruition. That's really scary. When you try to find a positive story about Donald Trump, a negative story about Kamala Harris, it is very hard to find. Just the other day when I was researching for that graphic that I put up on Instagram, talking about David Delighton, the new videos that he has released, Kamala Harris going after him when she was AG of California. I remembered that I had seen an article
Starting point is 00:04:51 by The New York Post, and I had seen it on X, and I wanted to look it up to get the information for this graphic. And so I typed in all the keywords that I could remember, like very exact into Duck. Dot, Do I could not find the article. I could not find it at all in the first, second, third page of my Duck, God Go search results. I had to go to X and find the exact post that I had found by New York Post to find that article. I mean, that is a huge obstacle that we are up against. So all that to say, I do think that the partnership between X and Elon Musk and free speech advocates is a really positive one. It's going to benefit conservatives because as we know, there is such a hefty left-wing bias when it comes to the vast majority of big tech and conservatives
Starting point is 00:05:44 have had to pay the price for that prejudice over the years, which means not only our perspectives don't get out there in large part. Obviously, not completely. I'm talking to you guys on YouTube right now. but in comparison to liberal perspectives, but it also means very many times the truth doesn't get out there. When you think about the censorship regime under COVID, and that has a real effect on people's lives. That has a real effect on people's livelihoods. That has a real effect on the direction our country goes. And so even if everything is completely above board when it comes to election day, we still have the kind of tampering that is apparently completely legal by these major, multi-billion dollar entities like big tech like these major corporations the mainstream media
Starting point is 00:06:32 academia all of these entities that are completely in the bag for comal harris and i don't say that to to make you feel discouraged or demoralized or for you to think well there's just no reason then to go out and vote look they were all in the bag for hillary clinton too and they'll definitely win if you don't go out there and votes i know you've got a lot of people saying only vote on election day, only vote on election day. I completely disagree with that. You should vote early. Vote as early as you can. Why? Because things happen on election day. Your kid has an emergency dentist appointment. You have a stomach virus. It is a monsoon outside. There's traffic. There are technical difficulties happening at the polling location. The power goes out. A million things could go wrong on voting day.
Starting point is 00:07:21 I know that there's this mentality that if I vote on voting day that gives them less time. to tamper with my vote. No, vote early. Like I said, there's so many challenges that could come up on voting day, and that could mean that you don't actually get to vote. And that is a big problem when it's on a large scale. So vote early. That is my two cents. I actually wish some conservative mega donor would just fund a massive campaign encouraging people to vote early. This push. by some conservatives to only vote on election day is so dumb. Don't listen to that. So anyway, all of this is really important what's happening on X right now. I'm very thankful for Elon Musk and how he is championing the other side of things and also championing free speech. So Monday marked the
Starting point is 00:08:17 return, as I said, of Trump to X. And not only did he have this Twitter spaces with Elon Musk, He also made multiple posts on X and hours leading up to the interview, suggesting that he might be returning to this as his communication tool. He posted lots of ads. I thought the ads were good. He also posted a graphic on Instagram, amazing that he is allowed on Instagram too. More power to meta for that. I'm just listing what his policy proposals are and the solutions to our problems. and, you know, they were the expected solutions, things that we've heard from him over the years that are very popular, closing the border, you know, punishing the drug cartels, the control of the border right now, putting an end to inflation, which would have to mean much less government spending, better economic policies. He had a long list of policy proposals, including keeping men out of women's sports. He didn't say anything about a board.
Starting point is 00:09:20 which of course, that's my number one issue. So I wish that he were stronger on that as we talked about yesterday. But also as we talked about yesterday, if he's not, then he should just stop talking about it and just say, you know what, I'm on the side of life. Kamala Harris has not put out her list of policy proposals. The most specific that I have heard her get when it comes to things that she thinks should be done when she's president is her suggestion that we should have no taxes on tips. And who said that first? Donald Trump. Donald Trump suggested that several months ago. So the only time I have heard her during this campaign get specific about her policy proposals, she is literally just copying and pasting a Donald Trump policy proposal. The only thing that Kamala Harris stands for is unfettered abortion. That's it. No one can tell me who is voting for her what she has proposed. Like what policies is she putting forth? What is her solution to inflation? The most specific I have heard her get before this election cycle. So before she copied Donald Trump was in the last election cycle when she completely failed, fell on her face in trying to run for president. And that is that she wants to ban private health insurance, just get rid of all of it, and also ban fracking. Those were her words, verbatim. That's not an exaggeration. And we can already see what she thinks about immigration policy.
Starting point is 00:10:46 she's been a border czar for the past four years, despite the media trying to cover that up. And she's done absolutely nothing. I mean, she had to have her arm twisted to even visit the border. There will be a thousand more Lake and Riley's under a Kamala Harris presidency because she wants to incentivize those kinds of people to come to the United States by rewarding them with things like free health insurance. So that's Kamala Harris. She's trying to capitalize on the, the stupidity of many voters by just putting out as many good vibes as she possibly can. And she's trusting that a lot of people aren't going to think very hard, that a lot of people are just going to vote on how they feel. And she's right. A lot of people will. But we have to hope that a lot more people don't. And we also, when we can, have to use truth-based emotional appeal to get
Starting point is 00:11:42 to those people who unfortunately will vote based on feeling. So we just have to have a reasonable, a reasonable perspective on all of that. All right, quick pause to tell you about our first sponsor for the day, and that is Lumen. Guys, I'm so excited about this product. This could be a game changer for your health. It is the first handheld metabolic coach. It's a device that measures your metabolism through your breath. And then on the app, it lets you know if you are currently burning fat or carbs, it gives
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Starting point is 00:13:50 the assassination attempt. He talks about Kamala Harris and the Biden administration. Trump criticized Harris, accusing her of failing at her role as borders are, which is absolutely true. Illegal immigration. Trump slammed the Biden-Harris administration's approach to border security, contrasting it with his own policies. Absolutely true. Return to Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump announced plans to return to Butler in October, referencing the strong support he received there. I think that is a great campaign move. Musk's endorsement of Donald Trump must clarify that the event was a conversation rather than an interview aimed at showing Trump's true character and mentioned his endorsement of Trump for the 2024 election. The economy, Trump focuses on issues like inflation. He says people want to hear about the economy. Food prices are up. This stupid administration allowed this to happen. And it's a shame. And that's the thing most people care about. In my opinion, I think he's right about that. No matter how pro-life you are. are, no matter how much you care about the border and these other issues, which of course are actually existential for our country, like you have to care about being able to feed your family
Starting point is 00:14:57 and being able to afford not just the things that you need, but yes, things that you want to do too. People have felt that shift over the past few years. Education. Trump told Musk that he plans to eliminate the Department of Education. That's huge. I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states of the 50 states. I would, bet that 35 would do great. And 15 of them or, you know, 20 of them will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great. The former president attacked Harris as a San Francisco liberal, 100% right. Like she was radically left for California for San Francisco. And she's trying to tell us that she is the pro-freedom, even moderate candidate who had changed
Starting point is 00:15:41 her tune on issues such as fracking and defunding the police. Let's not forget that about her. is that she contributed to the Freedom Fund after the George Floyd riots. And part of that funding helped release a man who then went out and murdered someone. So that's Kamala Harris. He argued Harris would revert to more liberal stances if she is elected in November. 1,000 percent true. She is a puppet of the abortion lobby, of the environmentalist lobby, and of the LGBTQ lobby. we've already seen throughout her career that she will sacrifice all of your constitutional rights, especially those listed in the First Amendment, if it is in service to her donors. She is corrupt and cruel to the core. You can go back and listen to our first episode about Kamala Harris from a
Starting point is 00:16:28 couple weeks ago. I think actually from last week, if you want to hear more about that, we'll link it. Trump also attacked Harris's running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls for signing legislation requiring schools to provide free minstrel products in all public school bathrooms, which is true. Tim Walls loves to waste money. And that's why he decided taxpayers have to fund that. And the humiliation, by the way, of the teenage boys is the point. The humiliation is the point there. I mean, just absolutely absurd.
Starting point is 00:16:58 And if you don't even understand why he has done that, it is because they believe that a girl can identify as a boy. And that girl may still have a period, even if she is identifying as a teenage boy. and when she goes into that restroom, that boy's restroom, she might need a pat or a tampon. And so there should be no stigma. Of course, it all starts with a lie that a boy can become a girl and vice versa. Of course, that is impossible. We shouldn't encourage that. It's completely destructive. It is degenerate. And it is so harmful for the very kids that they say that they are standing up for. And that's just who Walls is. He is not some moderate guy. and as we talked about yesterday, he also wasted tens of millions of taxpayer dollars providing free lunches to wealthy families and public schools who are not allowed to opt out. So as I said, Trump was very clear about his GOP platform, make America great again.
Starting point is 00:17:58 He's still using that, seal the border, carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. That's not just an immigration policy. that is an economic policy. I mean, massive deportation of illegal migrants. So by definition, every single one of them has committed a crime. That will also lower the cost of housing. That will also help us economically. He says, make America affordable again,
Starting point is 00:18:24 make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far. Again, that's not only an energy issue. That's not only an economic issue that is also a national security issue. When we are not relying on hostile foreign powers for our oil, we are safer. He says, stop outsourcing, turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower. We desperately need that, that part of the country that J.D. Vance knows so well and represents, like, that is for them. Large tax cuts for workers and no tax on tips.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Remember, that was his idea that he proposed not first Kamala Harris is, which is a great idea. you'll hear constantly from the left. They only want to cut taxes on for the wealthy, which of course is just objectively false. That actually, it's really Democrats who hate that group that makes between $100,000 and like $800,000. I'm not saying that's not a lot of money. But a lot of those people are people who did not inherit generational wealth. They've just been able to work hard enough to make money. And that really is the group that Democrats, tax policy just wants to gut and just wants to demoralize by robbing them of so much of the wealth, a wealth that they've built. Keep the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency. I'm not reading all of these. He also says prevent World War III. Like, let's also remember that Kamala Harris means war, because we had relative peace under Trump. Like, you'll remember that even in the Middle East, unprecedented peace. And then under Biden, we had this drastic failure. of a pullout from Afghanistan. We had Russia invading Ukraine. We've got Iran threatening to
Starting point is 00:20:10 attack Israel. We've got the threat of nuclear war happening all under Biden. Kamala means war. And we also know the Democrat position to try to enlist both men and women through a compulsory draft. And so under Kamala Harris, you are looking at World War III in which your daughters are drafted. And I think Donald Trump and his history shows us that that is much less likely when he is president because a strong America is better for the world, especially the most vulnerable in the world. He says, deport pro-Hamas radicals. That's amazing. And make our college campus is safe and patriotic again, which I love if I were to give some advice to a Trump team. Like, I've been asked, okay, well, how do you shift the vibes for those young people that are
Starting point is 00:21:09 really voting based on like branding, based on what the campaigns look like and sound like? You leverage those cool frat bros that a few months ago were holding up the American flag. I think it was on University of North. Carolina campus, you contrast that to the people who I guarantee you are voting for Harris, who are stomping on the American flag, burning the American flag, hoisting up Palestinian flag, defacing our monuments, defacing the Liberty Bell. You leverage the frat bros, the patriotic frat bros. It's, and especially right now in fall, start to the school year again, you've got rush happening. I know this might not make sense to a lot of.
Starting point is 00:21:54 of you, but you leverage that part of the college campus. They love America. Their parents love America. Most of their parents are voting Republican. Those sorority girls, though, they could easily get caught up in this movement of, you know, making Kamala brat and get kind of caught up in the feels of Kamala Harris. And so you got to leverage the frat bros to secure that vote. I know that might sound silly and superficial to some of you, but it is what it is. Don't hate you. the player. You can hate the game. But those college kids vote. If you want to shift the vibes, if you want to shift the branding, those are the patriotic young kids. Leverage those guys like the ones at UNC hoisting up the American flag. All right. Next sponsor for the day is Jace Madical. We've been
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Starting point is 00:25:02 cacistocracy, that we have been subjected to and that we would be subjected to under Kamala Harris, who has never earned anything. It's just true. The New York Times, Musk's Trump Talk on X, after glitchy start, a two-hour ramble. Elon Musk throws a Trump rally. And you know, it's funny because the Harris campaign. campaign, they're saying that this is a billionaire trying to steal the election. Here's what Harris says their campaign.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Donald Trump's extremism and Dangerous Project 2025 agenda is a feature, not a glitch of his campaign, which was on full display for those unlucky enough to listen in tonight during whatever that was on X.com. Trump's entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself, self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who can. not run a live stream in the year 2024. Like I will say it shouldn't be glitching. The same thing happened to
Starting point is 00:26:04 Ron DeSantis. That's just like shouldn't happen. I mean, I know it's like you're breaking the internet. You've got so many people engaged. But can we can we, I don't know, can we not? But I do think that Trump is revving up. I do. I do wonder, as I said yesterday, if the honeymoon phase for Harrison Walls is ending. If they've got their bearings now. They understand what needs to be sad. They understand what needs to be done. And like, let's go. Let's go. There are so many things on the line. I was just talking to a conservative friend yesterday about just my concern with how Harris will fundamentally change the country even more than
Starting point is 00:26:44 it already has under Obama in Biden. In at the very least, we need someone to stave that off for four years, at the very least. And so if you can vote for no other reason, even if you're not enthusiastic about Donald Trump because he's not as pro-life as you and I want him to be. Or if you just have Trump fatigue, whatever it is, at least to vote and get your friends to vote to stave off the radicalism that is Harrison Walsh. They're anti-freedom, their anti-prosperity, they're pro-caus, pro-degeneracy, pro-war, anti-parental rights, anti-all of the things that Christians should stand for. And let me just, before we get into the Olympic stuff, like, let me just talk about this for a second.
Starting point is 00:27:25 there is an evangelicals for Biden group going or evangelicals for Harris group I should say there wasn't evangelicals for Biden and evangelicals for Harris includes some people like Jamar Tisbee, include some people like Latasha Morrison. You know the name Latasha Morrison because she authored the book, Be the Bridge, and there are groups nationwide for being bridge builders and it's supposed to be about racial reconciliation. But as we've been, talked many times before, it employs unbiblical principles and pushes favoritism and partiality rather than truth and biblical justice. It gives different rules for the white people who are participating in it, different rules for the black people who are participating in it,
Starting point is 00:28:17 telling white people through their whiteness 101 document that you are not allowed to refute or or rebut any criticisms or accusations by the black people in the group that you just need to sit in silence, listen, and learn. Don't talk about your own lived experience as a contradiction or an example. Don't center yourself. All of these ridiculous secular directives just towards white people that, of course, are not given toward black people. And she pushes this idea of collective repentance by people who all share the generally, generally the same melanistic. count in order to try to reconcile with others who have generally the same melanin count. And she unbivocally tries to use scripture to support her claim, but she really, she fails to do so.
Starting point is 00:29:11 And so people should have seen the warning signs a long time ago. In the bad theology that she pushes, unfortunately, there are many pastors that have promoted her work who are otherwise trustworthy. And so that in itself is unfortunate. It's a very divisive doctrine that she promotes, but it shouldn't be all that surprising that she is standing up for publicly the ticket who has very unabashedly pushed abortion through all nine months for any reason paid for by the taxpayer and whose policies are only going to lead to destruction and lawlessness and chaos. And so if you are still part of a church that is pushing that curriculum, you need to have a conversation with your pastor about that for a variety of reasons. But I actually think it is
Starting point is 00:30:09 very elucidating. It's very illuminating when we see these people just say what they support. Just be very outright and open about the policies that they, I assume, presumably stand for. And we can link past episodes on Be the Bridge and you can hear some of the specific issues with it if you're interested in that. But I mean, there are evangelicals, people who say that they're evangelicals who are voting for Kamala Harris. And you've got to engage those people in love and in truth. And unashavenly, too. That doesn't mean that your spiritual. spirituality is tied to your vote or that is your entrance into having your ticket into heaven. Of course not.
Starting point is 00:30:56 We don't believe that at all. I have friends who are writing in. I have friends who say that they're not voting. I even have some friends who will vote for Harris, but I know that we are not on the same page, theologically. So that makes sense. But you've just got to ask questions to those people, engage them in truth, engage them in love, don't be ashamed of your position, while also, of course, realizing that at the end of the day,
Starting point is 00:31:23 we are all made in the image of God. And that partisanship is not paramount. It matters. Policies matter, of course, as we've talked about many times. But try as much as you can to preserve those relationships, even as you push your friends to think a little bit harder about what policies they support and why they actually matter. All right. Third sponsor is WeHeart Nutrition. Y'all, I take my supplements from WeHeart Nutrition every single day. I take their postnatal vitamin. I take their iron supplements, which is great. It's really easy on your stomach and it absorbs really well. So I feel a lot more energetic because I've always struggled with lower iron levels, like no matter what I'm eating. And so it's helped me battle anemia. And it's helped me be a lot more energetic as a mom of three. That's
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Starting point is 00:33:12 into the detail. So Algerian boxer, a main caliph, who had previously been disqualified by the International Boxing Association from competing in 2023, a genetic test showed male chromosomes received the gold medal after beating the Chinese competitor. After winning the Olympic gold, Khalif filed a legal complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office for online harassment and purportedly false claims about Kalif's sex during the Paris Olympics. International boxing insiders who have direct experience with the Maine Kaliq have come forward to say that Kaliqqq have come forward to say that Kali should not be included in female boxing. this is all reported by redux. For example, Kaleif's own trainer. Georgeskazorla, I think that's how you pronounce it,
Starting point is 00:33:59 also confirmed in a magazine interview that the Algerian has a male chariotype and high testosterone, saying there is a problem with her hormones with her chromosomes. He also added that he found the disqualification based on biological tests disgusting. Okay, so he doesn't agree, I guess, with him being excurs. but he does admit, yeah, okay, this is, this is, he's got different chromosomes. Cazorla told the magazine, the disqualification was based on tests. I found it discussing regardless of the results of those biological tests and without going into detail, this poor young girl was
Starting point is 00:34:36 devastated, devastated to suddenly discover that she might not be a girl. So Cazorla says that Amin Caliph did take a test, knew that the results came back, saying that he had X, Y, chromosomes, and while he was devastated, he still continued to box. Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright has narrowed down Caliph's potential condition to most likely be 5AARD. Males with this condition, he says this exclusively affects males, often present at birth with female appearing or ambiguous genitalia leading to a potential misclassification as female.
Starting point is 00:35:14 However, people with 5ARD possess fully functional internal testes that produce male levels of testosterone during puberty. That, of course, is what accounts to men being so much faster, bigger, stronger, insurmountably than women. Moreover, those with five ARD are fully responsive to testosterone, meaning they undergo a typical male puberty. Their bodies will respond to lowering these testosterone levels. Caliph meets all these criteria, the criteria of five ARD. And so let me give you a little bit of background about this because this has been a huge controversy with people claiming no, Amin Khalif is definitely a woman. She is a female. They've been showing pictures supposedly of her when she was younger. And yet, it was reported, again, by Redux that she had been previously
Starting point is 00:36:08 excluded from these boxing competitions. He had been previously excluded from these boxing competitions because when he did a blood test, it was found that he had X, Y, chromosomes. So the International Boxing Association is the entity that had come forward saying, hey, Khalif and Lynn, another boxer, they both have X, Y, chromosomes, they both are male, they should not be competing against women. But then the International Olympic Committee actually permitted their participation under more lax rules. They said, look, it says female on the passport. The Olympics don't actually test for that thing or for that particular thing for their chromosomes.
Starting point is 00:36:59 And so this person can compete. The IOC articulated that they only use the legal sex of the athlete. And then you'll remember when Khalif competed against Italy's Angela Karini. Angela Karini abandoned the match after just 46 seconds. Karini had already competed against Khalif and had been hit really hard and just felt too injured to do that. And that's what caused this entire firestorm of people saying, okay, this is just not fair. And then also since then, you've seen a lot of boxers when they get into the ring.
Starting point is 00:37:33 They'll go like this X, X with their fingers. And it seems like they are in a kind of subtle way saying, yeah, I stand with women. I stand with people who have X, X chromosomes because that is what it means to be a woman. During an August 5th press conference, the IBA, the IBA, the International Boxing Association, who says, yeah, Khalif is male and shouldn't compete. They discussed the reasoning for the boxers originally being disqualified from previous competitions against women and informed the audience that both boxers had not appealed their
Starting point is 00:38:09 decision to the court of arbitration in sport to fight, despite, facing no financial burden to do so. So when the IBA found through their testing that these two boxers were actually male, they said, look, you can appeal this decision if you want to. If you think that this is wrong, there's a process that you can do that. It's totally free. Neither of the boxers did that. Further confirmation of the boxers' karyotype was given by Alan Abramson, an associate professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for communication and journalism. He is a specialist in Olympic sports and member of the International Olympic Committee's press committee. In a statement, Abramson said that he had personally viewed
Starting point is 00:38:52 the results of the hotly contested chromosomal test ordered by the IBA in 2002 and 2023. Abramson revealed that the test concluded the boxer's DNA was that of a male consisting of X, Y chromosomes. And then, as I said, Caliph's trainer confirms the problems with the chromosomes, even though he is defending. Khalif, a lot of people are pointing out that after he won the gold medal in boxing, all of these men, his male trainers are lifting him up, holding him, even tapping him on the chest, which in a very conservative male Muslim country like Algeria, that just would be culturally forbidden. even if Caliph is not a stringent Muslim, the cross-dressing that we see when we look at
Starting point is 00:39:44 everyday pictures of Caliph would not be acceptable. What I personally think is that everyone kind of understands in Algeria what's going on there, that they do actually consider him a man and that's why they don't respect typical Muslim and cultural norms when it comes to how they interact with him, how they touch him, how they allow him to dress. I mean, he wears full suits, fully male clothing. There's no even attempt for him to like try to look feminine in any way. And this very traditional conservative, if you want to call it that Muslim country, I think they all just kind of know. But of course, they want him to compete against women. And because of his, perhaps his assignment at birth, there's like some wiggle room there. And of course, it allows him
Starting point is 00:40:33 to win. And so that is probably what's happening. Other people are speaking out, a Bulgarian boxer, Joanna Nwamuri, Nwamaru, maybe, a female Bulgarian boxer. She is so far undefeated in her career. She said that she met Khalif in Bulgaria was told by members of the Algerian national team that Kaleef was a woman who had simply been biologically altered by living in the mountains. Okay. And, And this boxer said that she did not believe this. And so she provided comments to her docs revealing that Khaliv had male power and used male techniques during a sparring match against her and Sophia, Bulgaria. Caliph has some kind of internal issues, but he is a man. I will stay by my words until he slash she does a task to prove to the world that he, she is a woman.
Starting point is 00:41:23 But we all know that will not happen. Nguamaru is in the same weight classes. Khalif could have faced him in the Olympics. However, she did not make the final Olympic pick. Her colleague, I don't really totally understand how that works if she's like undefeated, but also, I don't know, didn't make the final Olympic pick. Her colleague, Svetlana Staneva, represented Bulgaria in the Olympics and fought the other male, Lynn Uteing, on August 4th. Steneva launched an international movement following the match with Lynn after a male. making, oh, this is the person who did the X, X, X symbol at the crowd using her fingers a clear
Starting point is 00:42:02 nod to the chromosome controversy that had surrounded Lynn with Khalif. I love that Megan Kelly is saying this. She said to the Daily Mail in a tweet, I love you Daily Mail, but I am begging you in other outlets to stop with the pronoun game. You are reporting on a male boxer who fought versus a woman using she, her for the man. It's wrong, confusing, and is meant to dull our senses to this gender insanity. Yes, Megan, you are so right. And on her show a couple of years ago, I don't know if I can find the episode or the clip, but we had this conversation where I said this. I said, look, I'm not going to use she her for a male because that ascends to the entire theory
Starting point is 00:42:40 that is leading to men in women's bathrooms. And that was like, I would say, earlier on her journey. And she hadn't come to that conclusion quite yet. I am so thankful for how strong she is on this, how out there she is on this and is holding the line on that issue. and she's been very open about her evolution and her change on that, which I just really appreciate. I think that's really powerful. So I'm so glad that she's there speaking the truth about pronouns.
Starting point is 00:43:07 The Babylon B says, Iman Khalif wins first ever gold medal in freestyle domestic violence. Whoops. And gosh. And, you know, like we can feel for Khalif. Like, we can. If it is true. If it is true that he has some kind of.
Starting point is 00:43:26 I won't even call it intersex because I think that's a misnomer. You're not really in between sexes. Like, he is a male. But if there was any confusion and he really thought that he was a woman, it would have been obvious to him and to everyone else after puberty, though, that he's really a male and he didn't have to go into boxing, but he did. But we can still have sympathy for that condition. We absolutely can. And we can say that was probably really hard and really confusing. But at the end of the day, the primary victim is the woman that is getting beaten up by the man. The primary victim in this scenario is the woman, not the man. Because at any point in the past several years, someone could have stopped and said, this is not right.
Starting point is 00:44:06 I'm sorry, Khalif, that you're going through this. This is a devastating diagnosis. And like, we want to help you reconcile with that. But boxing is not the activity for you. That's not fair to these women. But he never said that. The people around him never said that. And that is why my sympathy is limited.
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Starting point is 00:45:51 after the controversy with the opening ceremony and the clear mockery of the Last Supper. Don't tell me it was like an ode to Greek gods. We've already covered that. Let's not be obtuse here. It was at least in part a mockery of the last summer. Last summer, last supper. And look, God will not be mocked. He can defend himself. Like, he doesn't need us to be constantly outraged about the mockery of him. But it is okay for us to have been. concerned about that. It is okay for us to not like that and to not like our faith to be belittled. But we do have reason to celebrate because I saw God glorified openly thanked by many athletes who could have taken the opportunity to just talk about how awesome they are, because that's what a lot of athletes do. A lot of athletes, when they are asked like, yeah, you know, it's all me. I'm just awesome, basically. And really no one baths. and I. A lot of people just kind of expect that from athletes. But when given a public platform,
Starting point is 00:47:05 several of these athletes gave glory to God, gave thanks to God. And I just, this like hybrid creature that I saw at the Olympics of actual supermodel evangelists, like have the athletes at the Olympics always been this dang beautiful? And it's kind of not fair. I'm just going to say that. I'm just going to say that. It's kind of not fair. I might disqualify you, actually, from the Olympics. If you are that talented and that fast and that awesome and that beautiful, I don't know, DQed. That's all I have to say on that. But I am thankful for how these beautiful people shouted out the Lord when they had the opportunity. This is a German Olympic gold medalist. Yamisi Oganili. I'm not sure how to pronounce her last name. She broke out in gospel music in a press
Starting point is 00:48:03 conference after winning gold in shot put. Here's that one. So after falling, I went back to my seat and I sang a song. It means I almost let go. Jesus came and grabbed me. He helped me close so I wouldn't let go. God's mercy kept me, so I wouldn't let go. So I'm here today because God kept me. I'm alive today, only because of his grace. Oh, he kept me. Okay. Do you see what I mean? by that, that's rude, that you can be that strong and talented to be an Olympic gold medalist and that beautiful, if you're watching this on YouTube, and you have seen really. So that was just beautiful. That was so good.
Starting point is 00:49:09 I loved that. I was tearing up when I was listening to that. And then American, Sydney McLaughlin Levroni, she won the gold medal in the women's 400 meter hurdles. She's had a new world record with an incredible run of 50, seconds, 50.37 seconds. That is incredible. Like I was asking my husband, I was like, what, what distance could I run in 50 seconds? I think I could run, if I were running for my life, for my life. Okay. So I don't know what's chasing after me. A cheetah, a bear, a lion,
Starting point is 00:49:47 I don't know. If I were running for my life, I think I could run two or, a 200 and 50 seconds. And she, who is not running for her life, is running a 400 and 50 seconds. Not only that, she is jumping over obstacles. I honestly don't think I could jump over one hurdle. You know what they should do? I'm sure other people have suggested this too. When you're watching the Olympics, there needs to be like on the screen, some kind of technology where you see like average person, just like a little. hologram. Like, as the Olympians are going, you see where the average person would be in the race. That's what I want to see. Like, okay, 10 to 12 minute mile girl. Like, what is, what is she looking like in relation to these people who are just like not even human, it seems like? And Sydney McLaughlin-Livroney is so faithful to share the gospel. And that is the most, I mean, beautiful part about her. She's always sharing her testimony and giving glory to God. And I love that. In addition to just being an incredible athlete, I think it's amazing how bold
Starting point is 00:50:59 she is in her faith. Here's thought too. I credit all that I do to God. He's given me a gift. He's given me a drive to just want to continue to improve upon myself. And I have a platform and I want to use it to glorify him. And so whenever I step on the track, it's always the prayer of God. Let me be the vessel in which you're glorified, whatever the result is, how I can myself, how I carry myself, not just how I perform. And so it's just freedom and knowing that regardless of what happens, he's going to get the praise through me. And yeah, that's why I do what I do. Yes, girl. She and her husband are so sweet and precious. I love following them. A lot of you have asked me to have her on the show. I would love that. We'll try to make it happen. A Brazilian skateboarder
Starting point is 00:51:48 Rasa Leal. She quoted John 146 using sign language. After she won the bronze medal, this is so sweet, sought three. Oh, my goodness. So if you don't know John 14, 6, that is Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through him. And so what a verse to sign to the world. I love that. Last sponsor for the day is Focus on the Family.
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Starting point is 00:53:35 Here's soft for. I feel very grateful to all the people. I feel grateful to God to give me this mercy and giving me this blessing and this opportunity. Because at that time, it was almost impossible to achieve all of these things. But nothing is impossible. When you have faith and when you have power and you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. I love that. I mean, I think that this is just a great testimony and great examples.
Starting point is 00:54:01 of what we always say that God's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch. It might not be the stuff that's making headlines. It might not be the stuff that's going viral. But he is always seeking the lost sheep. And he is always seeking the lost coin. And what he seeks, he will find. What he sets out to do, he will accomplish. Even when all this chaos and craziness is going on over here, God is completely and totally in control. And he is, is doing exactly what he is set out to do. And he is winning hearts and souls to himself. And he is so gracious that he uses us, that he uses us as vessels. He uses our evangelism. He uses our prayers. He uses our obedience. He doesn't need that. But he has preordained providentially the means
Starting point is 00:54:55 by which he is going to accomplish his will. And we get to participate in that, in that eternal plan of redemption. And so thank you to the athletes who had a platform and gave glory to God. And at the end of the day, like that glory, that goodness, that power, that faithfulness is so much bigger and better and deeper and more beautiful than any of the derisive, silly, ugly mockery that we saw at the beginning of the Olympics. So be of good cheer. God is always, always accomplishing good things in and through his people. All right, that's what we're going to end on today. Thank you guys so much for watching. We will be back here tomorrow.

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