All boxers, including Algeria's Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.

All boxers, including Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold last summer amid scrutiny over a disputed failed gender eligibility test conducted by a different body, will be unable to compete without a test which reveals their biological sex.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    91·
    5 hours ago

    They aren’t. The female boxer everyone bitches about was, in fact, born female.

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cye0ex43k63o

    "Khelif has always competed in the women’s division and is recognised by the IOC as a female athlete.

    “The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said on Friday.

    “This is not a transgender case. There has been some confusion that somehow it’s a man fighting a woman. This is just not the case. On that there is consensus, scientifically this is not a man fighting a woman.”"

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/false-accusations-surrounding-olympic-boxer-highlight-debate-around-gender-and-sports

    "Mark Adams, Spokesperson, International Olympic Committee:

    The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport. This is not a transgender case.

    William Brangham:

    Amid the attacks, Khelif’s father came to his daughter’s defense.

    Amar Khelif, Father of Imane Khelif (through interpreter): This is our official family document, May 2, 1999, Imane Khelif, a female. It is written here. You can read it. This document doesn’t lie. The people who are lying and leading a fierce campaign against her are the enemies of God. The attacks against her are immoral, it is not fair.

    Imane is a little girl that has loved sport since she was 6 years old."