Andy Richter Riffs Hard And Hilarious On Conservative Outcry Over Olympic Boxer
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The comedian called the right-wing outrage "treacherous nonsense."
Comedian Andy Richter said “treacherous nonsense” was behind the right-wing outrage over an Olympic boxer from Algeria who was born a woman and defeated a woman in Paris this week.
Richter, once Conan O’Brien’s talk-show sidekick, seized the spotlight to mock conservatives such as Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) who accused Imane Khelif of being a man without proof.
Khelif faced an unspecified gender-test issue at the last world championships and was disqualified. There is no evidence that she is trans, and the International Olympic Committee said she was fully qualified to compete in Paris. “This is not a transgender issue,” the committee emphasized.
Richter had enough of the bellicose blathering that seems to have sprung from transphobia ― a lynchpin of Republican messaging as the likely showdown looms between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Spending yr youth training & sacrificing & working while masquerading as the opp. sex in order to succeed, devoting yourself to an absurdly complicated yrs-long charade just to win - all of that has to make sense to you in order to believe it’s true and get so worked up about it,” Richter wrote Thursday on X, formerly Twitter.
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