Imane Khelif won an Olympic medal for Algeria

Fight against a female athlete who isn’t afraid of challenges: The case of Carini, Khelif, in the 66-Kilogram final

She said that athletes who have male genetic characteristics should not be included in the women’s competition. “And not because you want to discriminate against someone, but to protect the right of female athletes to be able to compete on equal terms.”

Italy’s family and sports ministers have also voiced concerns about the lack of clarity around gender eligibility criteria, suggesting that uniform international criteria would assuage “suspicion” and protect athletes’ safety.

Algeria’s Olympic committee denounced what it said was her unethical targeting with baseless propaganda.

“Such attacks on her personality and dignity are deeply unfair, especially as she prepares for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics,” it added, per Reuters.

Pan Men-an, secretary-general for Taiwan’s presidential office, said on social media that it was wrong for an athlete to be “subjected to humiliation, insulting and verbal bullying” just because of their appearance.

Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first female president, wrote on X that Lin is “an athlete who is fearless in the face of challenges, whether they come from inside or outside the ring.”

Still, the southpaw has won many other titles — including bronze in featherweight at the 2019 Women’s World Boxing Championships, gold at bantamweight in 2018 and gold in featherweight in 2022.

According to her Olympic bio, Lin joined an athletics team as a child “to achieve good results in athletics and win awards to help out financially.” She switched to boxing in middle school.

Lin beat Sitora Turdibekova by a unanimous decision in a preliminary-round fight on Friday, without much fanfare in the crowd.

The women’s 66-Kilogram bout was won 5:0 by Khelif. Khelif will win at least a bronze medal after defeating Hamori for the second victory of her tumultuous second trip to the Olympics. Hungary’s boxing association said it planned to contest the matchup with the International Olympic Committee but still let the fight go ahead.

Carini quit after Khelif punched her in the face and bloodied her shorts. After deciding to withdraw, she fell to her knees sobbing in the ring and refused to shake hands with Khelif.

Khelif and Paul: The Case for a Woman in a Man’s World (after Trump and Rowling), by J.K. Rowling, on Truth Social

The IOC said that the current aggression against these two athletes was caused by an arbitrary decision made without proper procedure and that these athletes had been competing in top level competition for many years.

The IOC has repeatedly defended the athletes’ right to compete in Paris, casting doubt on the process that disqualified them last year and pointing to their female legal identities.

Khelif won the African and Mediterranean Championships in 2022 and reached the final of the IBA Women’s World Championships that same year. She took home silver, after a defeat by another Irish boxer, Katie Broadhurst.

Vlogger-turned-WWE wrestler Logan Paul also slammed Khelif as a man, tweeting that the match was “the purest form of evil unfolding right before your eyes.” He later deleted his post and wrote, “I might be guilty of spreading misinformation along with the entirety of this app.”

Author J.K. Rowling — who has been criticized for her transphobic views in recent years — falsely labeled her a man, in a tweet that has garnered over 400,000 likes. Donald Trump wrote a letter on Truth Social saying he would keep men out of women’s sports.

A simple explanation of how the IOC stopped blanket sex testing and what we don’t know about atomic chromosomes

Unfortunately, as with all temptations, we want a simple explanation. “Everyone wants a black-and-white explanation of how we can determine this. That explanation isn’t out there in the scientific community or anywhere else.

On Friday, spokesperson Adams reminded reporters that the IOC stopped blanket sex testing in 1999, and that “even if there were a sex test that everyone agreed with, I don’t think anyone wants to see a return to some of the scenes.” He acknowledged that the situation has become confusing.

In its Thursday statement, the IOC confirmed that all athletes participating in the boxing tournament “comply with the competition’s eligibility and entry regulations, as well as all applicable medical regulations.” It said it used the Tokyo boxing rules as the baseline for this year’s regulations.

Mark Adams told reporters earlier this week that women in their passports is the case and that they are female. Notably, there is no right to change one’s legal gender under Algerian law.

The only sponsor of the IBA was a Russia state energy company, which angered the olympics as well as how presidents from Uzbekistan and Russia ran it.

In a new statement released in this week, the IBA confirmed that Khelif and Lin had not undergone a testosterone exam, but had been subject to a separate and recognized test which the specifics remain confidential.

There are medical reasons for why females, who typically have XX chromosomes, might have an XY chromosome which is part of why these tests shouldn’t be fully relied on, Schultz said.

The Spanish hurdler named Maria JoséMartnez-Patio was kicked out of the Spanish Olympic team in 1985 for failing a sex test and challenged this method in the 1980s. The test showed that she had a male and female’s syndromes, but was unaware of it. An individual with a gender identity disorder can have female genitals, but they do not have female reproductive organs.

The IBA Tests and the Human Rights Watch Investigation of Sex and Gender Differences in Women’s Physical Competence: a Brief Report

The IBA, which is led by an acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin, disqualified Khelif last year but has not released more details on the tests, calling the process confidential. It was banned from participating in the Olympic Games in 2020 due to conflicts with the IOC.

She made her first Olympic appearance at the Tokyo Games in 2021, where she lost in the quarterfinal round to Ireland’s Kellie Harrington (and didn’t face any false allegations about her gender at the time, as many of her defenders are now noting).

The executive director of Humans of Sport said that the Olympics are not unique to Paris.

The tests showed that the two were found to have competitive advantages over other females. The IBA did not respond to NPR’s questions and is not providing documentation of the tests.

Human rights advocates say these exams “discriminate against women on the basis of their sex, their sex characteristics, and their gender expression” and violate the right to privacy, dignity, health and non-discrimination, a 2020 report from Human Rights Watch said. This report was co-authored by Mitra.

People have looked at everything from genitalia to chromosomes, and they have also looked at testosterone. And what we end up with is the understanding that there’s really no clear cut definition of sex, because each of these iterations of testing has kind of collapsed under its own weight,” said Jaime Schultz, a professor with Penn State University’s department of kinesiology.

“It becomes tricky, because we were so locked into this binary, of either being a man or a woman, that we don’t often appreciate all the nuances within this continuum of sex and gender,” Schultz said.

In 1948, the organization now known as World Athletics established a rule requiring anyone who wanted to compete as a woman to submit a note from her doctor.

In the 1960s, officials of athletic organizations launched the first of many iterations of physical examinations. In the mid 1960s, women competing at a track and field event “were called into a room, not told what to expect, and were made to lay down on a couch and were subjected to a gynecological exam,” Schultz said.

Having AIS meant “her body couldn’t respond to the circulating testosterone that her body naturally produced,” so officials determined that Martínez-Patiño wasn’t taking unfair advantage by competing in female hurdling competitions, Schultz said.

The Spanish hurdler was able to challenge her dismissal in court and won in 1988 – but lost her privacy, scholarship and many relationships in the process.

These are women who were assigned female sex at birth and they have competed as girls and women their entire lives. They have been beaten by other women competing in the women’s category. We are questioning if these women are women. “This is not mere speculation. This is what people’s lives are like.

Afterglow: Imane Khelif clinches an Olympic medal after a gender outcry in the first Olympic boxing event

“What is going on in this context in the social media, with all this hate speech, with all this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable,” Bach said.

Many fighters will only have to win two games at the Paris Olympics to get a medal. The semifinalists in each weight class win a medal.

Twelve years after women’s boxing made its first Olympic appearance, the Olympics invited men and women to Paris for the first time.

Khelif failed to win a medal at the Tokyo Games, but he will face Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand in the semifinals of the 66- kilograms. Suwannpheng, a silver medalist at last year’s world championships, upset defending Olympic champion Busenaz Surmeneli a few minutes before Khelif’s victory.

The exhausted fighters had a halfhearted hug after the bell, but they touched fists and exchanged smiles right before the verdict was announced. They touched hands again when Khelif held down the ropes to allow Hamori to leave the ring in a traditional boxing gesture of sportsmanship.

On Saturday, Khelif fought aggressively from the opening bell, snapping a crisp left jab while the fighters circled. Her fans chanted her first name repeatedly midway through the opening round, and she bounded forward to throw a combination.

Source: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches Olympic medal after gender outcry

A woman who is not a woman should be ashamed of herself: Imane Khelif at the IOC and her fellow boxer Lin Yu-ting

If they are coming up with something, we are ready to listen. “We are ready to look into it, but we will not take part in a sometimes politically motivated cultural war.”

Some want to own the definition of who is a woman. They should come up with a new definition of who is a woman and how a person who has a passport but is born male can’t be considered a woman.

VILLEPINTE, France — Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria clinched a medal at the Paris Olympics in an emotional fight Saturday that followed days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender have exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports.

The ending made its mark on the divide over gender identity and regulations in sports, drawing comments from the likes of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

At a Paris Games that has championed inclusion and seen other outcry over an opening ceremony performance featuring drag queens, LGBTQ+ groups say the hateful comments could pose dangers to their community and female athletes.

Khelif’s win was emotional — she went to the center of the ring, waved to her fans, knelt and slammed her palm on the canvas, her a smile turning to tears. She left the ring to hug her coaches while her fans roared, weeping during their embrace and as she walked out.

IOC President Thomas Bach on Saturday defended Khelif and fellow boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan. The IBA, formerly the governing body of Olympic boxing, nixed Khelif and Lin after they failed eligibility tests.