Imane Khelif is just the latest case of female athletes being questioned over their sex [View all]
Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif is fighting more than just her Hungarian counterpart in the ring Saturday.
She’s now fighting to defend her career as a female athlete amid conservative accusations that she and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting are not women. Both athletes identify as women and have long competed in boxing as female athletes.
Questions arose after the International Boxing Association said both athletes were disqualified from the IBA’s 2023 world championships after failing eligibility tests.
It's the latest controversy in a long history of female athletes being questioned over their sex.
“This whole spectacle is not unique to the Paris Olympics,” said Payoshni Mitra, the executive director of Humans of Sport, which supports athletes with sex variation.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-5061548/imane-khelif-boxer-female-athletes-sex-tests
The Russian-controlled IBA, the outfit "questioning" her gender and that of the Chinese boxer, will not release the results of their supposed "test". They are spurious at best and disingenuous otherwise. Anyone old enough to remeber their Press "sisters", who disappeared the moment gender testing hove on the horizon? I am.
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