Lauren Boebert’s anti-trans fundraiser for Olympic boxer fails miserably

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lauren Boebert joined American conservatives who waded into the Olympics boxing row Now it has emerged that Carini’s coach rejected Boebert’s fundraising efforts and the money is being returned to donors. “Americans were rightly outraged, and gave generously to my GiveSendGo fund for Angela Carini, one of the women who was beaten up in the ring and that had to stop her match to avoid being seriously injured.” The fundraiser argued that Carini’s chance at a gold medal had been “stolen.” It aimed to raise $196,000, the equivalent of Italy’s gold medal prize money. Khelif, right, defeated Italy's Angela Carini in Paris in August The two women were launched into the spotlight after the International Boxing Association, a governing body for boxing that has been banned from the Olympics since 2023, abruptly disqualified both athletes from competing in the world championships for allegedly failing opaque eligibility tests. An International Olympic Committee spokesperson said at the height of the controversy following the Khelif-Carini match that the Algerian boxer was “born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport.” He added: “This is not a transgender case.” Carini even apologized to her opponent for leaving the match.