Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s participation at the Paris 2024 Olympics is “not a transgender issue”, a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Khelif beat Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday (1 August), in a fight that has reignited an online storm about her participation in the Games, despite the fact she has been confirmed as eligible to enter the women’s boxing event.
The welterweight bout lasted just 46 seconds, with the Italian boxer saying she was forced to concede defeat. “I am heartbroken,” Carina said, reports The Guardian. “Regardless of the person I had in front of me, which doesn’t interest me, regardless of all the row, I just wanted to win.”
Khelif previously competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She and fellow boxer Lin Yu-ting were disqualified from last year’s World Championships after failing to meet eligibility criteria.
Lin, who represents Taiwan, was stripped of third place at last year’s World Championships after failing a gender eligibility test. Khelif was disqualified in New Delhi for failing a testosterone level test, following information from the IOC.
Further details on why the pair were disqualified from the World Championships were not given at the time. IOC spokesman Mark Adams addressed the controversy again on Thursday (1 August), reiterating that Khelif and Lin both comply with Olympic eligibility rules and clarifying that their participation had nothing to do with trans issues.
“I repeat, all the competitors comply with the eligibility rules”, Adams stated (via The Guardian). “But what I would say is that this involves real people.”
He added: “And, by the way, this is not a transgender issue. I should make this absolutely clear.” Khelif told the BBC after her latest victory: “I am here for gold. I will fight anybody, I will fight them all.” The IOC previously said that “all athletes participating in the boxing tournament of the Olympic Games comply with the competitions eligibility and entry regulations as well as all applicable medical regulations”.
In response to claims about Khelif, the Algerian Olympic Committee said it “strongly condemns** the unethical targeting and maligning” of their boxer**, calling the attacks on her “deeply unfair”.
Featherweight Lin is set to take on Sitora Turdibekova on Friday (2 August).
According to Wikipedia Khelif is natal woman with DSD making her having high testosterone levels. Not much detail is given about fellow boxer Lin_Yu-ting also cleared to fight in the Olympics after being stripped of a medal for gender issues before. It seems she competed in women’s tournaments throughout her life.
So this makes this another Caster Semenya case with a notable difference, the amount of anti-trans propaganda coverage the IOC boxers’ issue has received is objectively more troubling even compared to Fallon Fox’s MMA matches.
Please have this in mind and debunk whoever claims that this is a trans issue. Point out that their definition of woman leaves actual women out of it, unless they are the Marjorie Taylor Greene type.
I hadn’t heard of DSD before.
And I would like Republicans to denote exactly which sports each person with such disorders gets to play in. XXY are men? Even though at least one has been pregnant?. How about “men” with Swyer Syndrome? They may not even know they’re “men!”
And how do we prove who is who?
Are we going to start doing genetic testing of athletes?
They already do genetic testing on the highest level of competition. She’s been excluded by IBA because of it.
The Olympics is the highest level of competition, so no they don’t.
Nor should they for the reasons I just stated above.
Do you really think someone with naturally-formed breasts and a vagina should be prevented from women’s sports because a genetic test revealed something which they didn’t know themselves- that they have a Y chromosome?
Is that really how you think things should go?
I’m simply informing you that the IBA (International Boxing Association) does do genetic testing. And this woman have been excluded as a result. It has already happened. The debate of which is slightly higher level than the other is pointless and irrelevant
As per what I think. I think women’s sport was created to promote sports for women and boost their participation. And also to give them an equal playingfield. due to men (who are genetically different), often have a physical advantage because of it.
If a woman, have these genetic traits that give men their physical advantages (and I’m speaking in broad, general terms). I can understand if there is a debate about allowing her to compete with other women that doesn’t. It is after all one of the two reasons women’s sports were created in the first place.
What if a woman just has a very muscular, masculine build despite being genetically XX? As far as we know, Brittney Griner is a woman. She would also defeat plenty of NBA players in one-on-one. Maybe she also should be excluded if we’re going to start making this about not allowing people with certain physical advantages to compete?
I’m sure the appropriate league will make their determination based on the information available to them.
I don’t see the point in debating a made up scenario of yours where the only information available is the one you’re imagining.
Yes, I am totally imagining a world in which Brittney Griner exists.
Yes, but you see, “mannish” women are not “real” women, therefore she can’t compete fairly or something like that, anyway where is the 4k vagina video so all the expert armchair gynecologists can make sure to tell us whether or not it’s a real one?
I mean this kind of does involve trans issues but not in the way the TERFs believe it does. It shows yet another reason why the moral panic over birth genitals in sports is ridiculous if there are already testosterone limits for these events.
Seems like the real answer here is just to eliminate gendered sports categories entirely and change them to hormone expression categories.
That doesn’t work either though. Apparently elite level athletes tend to have lower than average testosterone levels.
Fundamentally, shit is always going to be unfair to some degree. Someone is going to be taller, have more reach, longer legs, different proportions of fast v. slow twitch muscle fibers, and so on. And lets not forget the biggest influence on how good someone is going to be at sport: money. (You know how many poor people get really good at rowing? Fucking none, because rowing is a rich person’s sport.)
The armchair endocrinologists are at it again.
Hormones are complex and vary across individuals for innumerable reasons. They are complex systems involved in complex biology that takes years of study to properly understand.
In short, this terf bs needs to stop. It’s done nothing but make the world even more hostile to both cis and trans women who are just trying to pursue their careers, sport, and happiness.
Her Wikipedia doesn’t say she has DSD from my reading only thing we have is a corrupt IBA official claiming she violates the rule of having xy chromosomes right before her finals match. The IBA was suspended from Olympics for corruption and we have a failed testosterone test in her career. (Maybe she was doping, maybe it was a bad test, maybe she produces high testosterone)
We need confirmed facts which sucks for this lady. That being said all the boxing competitors in the IOC agreed to fight the other contestants. Then one girl got punch in the face and cried fowl.
Sounds more like the Italian boxer didn’t train well enough. Who boxes and then bows out because they are afraid to get their nose broken?
The sport is literally “punch people in the body and face until they drop or time runs out”.
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