Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Storms Into Olympic Final Amid Gender Row | Paris Olympics 2024 | N18G

Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Storms Into Olympic Final Amid Gender Row | Paris Olympics 2024 | N18G

Algeria’s Imane Khelif has stormed into the women’s welterweight boxing final at the Paris Olympics 2024 after beating Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in a unanimous points decision by the judges in the French capital.

Khelif, who has been the target of a gender row during the games, celebrated her win by jumping with joy in the ring at the Rolland Garros Stadium

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[winstonwilliams]

they both look like they went through male menopause to me which doesn't fit with Swyer and also if the high testosterone is right that also is cheating and not allowed

[InquizityJJ]

How can IOC allowed such thing to happen? This is ridiculous!

[TonyUSC]

If this becomes Algeria 1st gold medal in womans boxing EVEr will tell us alot. This how media strait lies to you.

[Fan-wjmx]

So this is how it ends for real women in the Olympics... with thunderous applause.

[mariaxesfyngi]

When a woman is not woman enough because she doesn't check all the female beauty standards, when a woman is not woman enough because of her athletisism and 'too much' body strength, when a woman is not woman enough because SHE SAYS SO, or because SHE FEELS SO, and this is enough! Enough with the bullying, hate, misogynism, sexism. She won the gold, like a real WOMAN. She is a role model, her early life, her professionalism, her athletisism, her empathy and especially her grace, for all the next generations of women.

[mariannasipos]

Doppingolni nem lehet, de férfiak indulhatnak nőként????

[evil_radfem]

A summary of the events so far:

Imane Khelif, a man, boxed against Angela Carini during the Olympics. Some people are upset, others are defending this, some are saying the criticism directed at Khelif is just a plot to get Algeria disqualified.

Khelif had been disqualified from professional boxing in the female category before because the IBA did two sex tests on him and the IBA claims that the results show that he is a man cheating by pretending to be a woman. Same as another controversial boxing contestant for the female category, Lin Yu-ting.

Neither of them contested their disqualification in the end which makes it even more suspicious.

The IOC discontinued all sex testing years ago, their only eligibility criteria are now whether someone has the marker for female on their passport. This is why both of the boxers were still able to participate in the Olympics.

Khelif won against his opponent after just 46 seconds. Carini took a punch to the face (there are claims he broke her nose) and forfeited the match, saying she had never been hit this hard before.

Carini was seen visibly angry and in tears, on her knees, repeatedly saying “it’s not fair”. Just like Lin Yu-ting’s opponent, she refused to shake hands. Khelif nonetheless approached her twice, smirking, and even groped her breast after winning.

A lot of people were understandably upset. The IOC issued a statement claiming that the true victims of the situation were the two male boxers.

Now, are they male? Yes.

The IBA defines “woman” as someone with XX-chromosomes, so this leads us to the conclusion that both Lin and Khelif at the very least tested positive for Xy. The test results are available to individual journalists.

Alleged childhood pictures of Khelif surfaced, showing him in pink clothes leading us to believe he was raised as a girl.

His father also presented to the public Khelif’s birth certificate that classifies him as “female”, however, strangely, the birth certificate was only issued in 2018, 19 years after his birth and right at the start of Khelif’s professional boxing career.

Both Imane’s and Lin’s passport is saying they are “female.” Many people have pointed out that a marker on a passport is not indicative of sex in the first place, since many countries have self-identification laws that allow women and men to change their legal sex marker at will. Algeria however is not one of those countries.

Now, there are few disorders of sexual development that can lead to women having Xy chromosomes. Imagine it like this: you have an X and a y and the y malfunctions in some way, leaving only the X.

One of them is Swyer syndrome, which I’ve seen people claim Khelif has. First, there’s no proof for this. Second, there are documentaries about women with Swyer syndrome and Khelif looks nothing like them. I think it’s pretty apparent from his appearance that Khelif has functioning testicles. He has a male frame, Adams apple, male muscle-to-fat ratio, a male voice and wingspan. There are even pictures of his that show what is clearly male genitalia. Women with Swyer do not develop male genitalia and only produce female levels of testosterone. They also have to go on female hormone replacement therapy to go through puberty.

More claims debunked:
“The IBA is lying because uh… Russia”

The lab that did the first test is a US-American reference lab and, as well, accredited by CAP, the Northfield, Illinois-based College of American Pathologists, and certified by the ISO, the Swiss-based International Organization for Standardization. The second test was done in New Delhi and turned out identical to the first.

Besides, what kind of incentive would the Russian government have to defend an Italian boxer over an Algerian one? That makes no sense to me. Just btw, the IOC is deeply connected to the WEF. This is not a political issue though, unless we make it.

“She is a woman on testosterone”
Khelif is not a woman on testosterone. If that were true, “she” would have to be disqualified for doping. But apart from the fact he has Xy, women who take androgens, even the ones taking a male amount of them, still have female frames. This is me speaking from experience: just look at videos, best unedited, of women on high amounts of testosterone moving. You’ll see they look and move nothing like him, even if they have more muscle and beards.

“She has a uterus and fallopian tubes”
False and entirely based on the fabricated claim that Khelif has Swyer syndrome.

“Khelif has lost to women before, so she must be a woman”
Even cheaters lose sometimes. And even a loser man has no place in women's boxing.

Of course, it is possible that Khelif has lost several times on purpose.

William “Lia” Thomas, who swam with the women as a man in the USA, was caught several times deliberately not paddling his legs to make the difference between himself and the women look smaller.

Here is a quote from Mexican Brianda Tamara, against whom Khelif boxed in 2022:

“When I fought with her, I felt very out of my depth; her blows hurt me a lot. I don’t think I had ever felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely, and it’s good that they finally realized [that he is a man].

“She was born female”
Fact is, we know he was registered as female at birth. We don’t know why that is, but reasons could be: botched circumcision, born with ambiguous genitalia, parents wanted a girl (unlikely since transgenderism is illegal in Algeria). Personally, I think the second reason is true.

Caster Semenya is another man who competed as female, but later fathered a child with sperm from his internal testicles. Semenya has what’s called 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency. That means Semenya is a normal man whose testes just didn’t drop. In some cases, they drop later.

More things that don’t add up but aren’t proof of anything on their own:
Khelif, coming from a rural Muslim community, was never seen wearing a hijab.

There exist several pictures of him wearing a groin protector specifically for men, never for women. Right after his fight against Carini he was seen doing something on stage that many men seem to recognize as “adjusting his junk.”

Conclusion: to clear things up and avoid spreading misinformation, we should put pressure on the IOC and the athletes to undergo sex testing in a way that ensures we are getting correct unbiased results.

And yes, the media and many disingenuous people online are lying about about this situation and the athletes’ sexes.

UPDATE: Due to his victory against Anna Luca Hamori, Khelif secures a bronze medal and moves on to the semi-finals. Hamori posted an AI-generated picture before the fight showing her confronting a giant monster man. The fact that she has a lighter color in the picture, while Khelif is shown with darker skin, adds fuel to the fire of a discussion about racism that has flared up on Twitter/X.

After the fight against Lin Yu-ting that secured him bronze, Staneva, his opponent, made a double X sign with her hands.
“I only want to play with women, I am double X.”

Khelif is now on track to win a gold medal.

[utopiatech]

Imane khalif is woman whay talking about her is it because an African Algerian

[etrom.forever]

As a male, I feel represented by Imane!

[abomarsyr]

It’s not called controversially, it’s called bullying. Shamefully and sadly yes, that’s what it is. And the only reason is because of her origin, nothing has to do with her gender. When falsely and ironically try to accuse others of your own so called culture.

[freedommealways]

While Khalif and Lin have not been proven to be anything, that is exactly the point. The IOC should not rely exclusively on passport information. If there is even the slightest doubt about a person's gender, let that person be thoroughly physically checked so that no one will make comments later.

[dunexapa]

*IF THE OLYMPICS IS SO PROUD OF THIS MALE BOXER WHY DOESN, T THE IOC SHOW THE MATCH WITH

[blaisemacpherson]

Go Imane. We are all rooting for you.

[santilic]

5-alpha reductase deficiency is a condition that affects sexual development before birth and during puberty. People with this condition are genetically male, with one X and one Y chromosome in each cell, and they have male gonads (testes).

[Tech-Subsequent]

Wow, guys beating girls up in the Olympics, I saw that fight, that is a man!!

[AprilFletcher-jeox]

Cheaters are not winning they're male

[georgeh]

the real issue is doping. people are tested to see if they have some performance enhancement drug in their bodies. what if someone comes up with a drug that enhances testosterone but the drug itself can't be detected? is excess testosterone another condition to be checked?

[cantfindausernamedam]

yay gold! just took fighters leaving fights and refusing to fight.. smh

[安居號]

1. No evidence of XY chromosomes or transgender—only “verbal claims” by IBA
The IBA organization held a press conference but failed to produce the report.
2. Only one verbal claim (by IBA) without formal report, but all other normal tests were ignored:
Lin & Khelif have undergone testing in world-class competitions for so many years, but only the IBA in 2023 ‘claimed’ there was an issue and refused to disclose the test items, while previous and subsequent normal test reports by other fair associations have been ignored
3. The whole thing is a political attack and fake news
The IBA is backed by Russian forces, so they’re targeting a Taiwanese athlete disliked by China and Khelif, who once defeated a Russian athlete. Most national boxing associations have already withdrawn from IBA, so they are now trying to get revenge on the IOC.

[vicunita]

VOMITABLE y vergonzoso que en unos juegos olímpicos se permitan el maltrató " de un hombre hacia una noble mujer. Grande y admirable la italiana. Abandono a tiempo .Expuso su dignidad olímpicamente. Lo patético y lamentable las ovejas descerebradas que apoyaban a la supuesta Menudo papelón de esta organización de los juegos