A boxer with male DNA – XY chromosomes – took the gold medal within the woke Paris Olympics on Friday.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif beat China’s Yang Liu to win the gold medal in girls’s boxing.
A male boxer is now the feminine Olympic champion.
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RETWEET! The IOC has failed girls.
A male boxer is now the feminine Olympic champion.
Imane Khelif beats Yang Liu.
Male energy smashes feminine expertise#Paris2024 #ImaneKhelif#xx pic.twitter.com/mtgRBZ1kl8— FairPlayForWomen (@fairplaywomen) August 9, 2024
Istvan Kovacs, the European vice chairman of the World Boxing Group (WBO), has publicly asserted that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is biologically male.
This declare, which raises severe questions on equity in girls’s sports activities, was made throughout an interview with the Hungarian information outlet Magyar Nemzet.
Kovacs disclosed that he alerted the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) about considerations relating to male participation in girls’s boxing as early as 2022. Regardless of these warnings, he claims that no motion was taken.
“The saddest factor within the story is that the issue was not with the extent of Helif’s testosterone, as a result of it may be adjusted these days, however with the results of the gender take a look at, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” he stated.
Kovacs additional elaborated that 5 boxers, together with Khelif, underwent testing by the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA), and all have been discovered to be male. Regardless of reporting these findings to the IOC, he lamented that there was no response or motion taken.
