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From the August 1, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Woke ideology going for gold at the Olympics after a boxer who failed gender eligibility test brutally beat a female opponent in just 46 seconds. That fighter got banned last year from other events due to their x-y chromosome, but that didn't stop the Olympics from letting the boxer turned an Italian female opponent into a punching bag. 

All right, Dana, this is obviously hard to watch. Everybody who has seen this video, how do you make sense of it?

DANA PERINO (HOST): I feel, I don't get enraged very easily, but this one did it for me. That young woman from Italy had practiced her entire life for this moment to be able to go to the only picks and she got punched in the face by a guy. And in 46 seconds, her dream ends. And basically the International Olympic Committee also basically said, basically they accused her of discrimination for not wanting to get killed in the ring and for losing her dreams, and probably losing sponsorship money in the future, right, because she's not going to be able to deal with this. And why is it, everybody, there are no women trying to transition into men competing in their sports? And nobody sticks up for them. I think that maybe this is just exactly what this issue needed in order to finally may be break through and say it is wrong because I think a lot of people feel that way, I hope.

WATTERS: Yeah, I mean, I do too. If I was a lawyer, Judge, I'd probably try this person for assault.

JEANINE PIRRO (HOST): Well, look, I personally am sick and tired of making it okay for men to beat women literally and figuratively. Look, men have an x-y chromosome. Women have an x-x chromosome. This so-called person had an x-y chromosome and they let that person in the ring with a woman. Now, we know about the woman from come, I think it was last year, who played volleyball, she had brain damage from a guy who was transgender, who's a girl now. You know, they apparently now have a rule where they say, well, the only time we'll make it an exception, because he's never -- she, whatever -- has never declared what their sex is. They've never said anything. 

And the only way the IOC says they'll make an exception is they will exclude athletes who have a consistent unfair, disproportionate advantage, or if there is an unpreventable risk to the safety of others. If this isn't a risk to the safety of women, I don't know what is.

BRIAN KILMEADE (HOST): So then you've got to blame boxing because boxing didn't do what track and field did. The Paris boxing organization, the world championship banned them, said you can't fight in the world championships, you're a man, and the Olympic committee, the Paris-based Olympic committee said no, you can do it because you're intersex. I didn't know what intersex is.

PIRRO: Nobody knows.

KILMEADE: But it does not sound enjoyable. I will add this, this is what she said and this is to your point. "I started to feel" -- this is the Italian woman who just quit, "I started to feel a strong pain in my nose. I didn't give up but a punch hurt so much, I said enough, I am leaving with my head held high." Now he, she is going to fight August 3rd, August 3rd again, and he's going to end up with a gold medal. What an embarrassment to a sport that can least afford -- 

PERINO: By the way, "South park" predicted all of this.

WATTERS: They usually do.

KILMEADE: We played it on the radio.

PIRRO: And you know what, it's okay to beat women that's what it comes down to.

HAROLD FORD JR. (HOST): The Olympics and other world championship have the different rules about this. I don't understand why these same athletes are not allowed to compete at other world championships, why the Olympics allowing it? They ought to do two things: One. if they have inconsistencies like this or close calls like this, they should not allow these individuals to fight women going forward here, and two, the Olympics are coming to the U.S. In Los Angeles in 2028. They need to get this resolved. We should have harmony with these rules, world championships, and the Olympics.

WATTERS: We'll never know because no one will ever ask her.