Gender Row Rocks Olympics, Italian Boxer Left in Tears | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Gender Row Rocks Olympics, Italian Boxer Left in Tears | Vantage with Palki Sharma

An Algerian boxer has been branded a "man" after her opponent surrendered in 46 seconds during a Round of 16 match at the Paris Olympics. The accusations stem from her disqualification at last year's World Boxing Championship over a failed gender test. Despite the outrage, the organisers have stood by the athlete. Palki Sharma brings you the facts.

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Paris Olympics | Algeria | Boxer | Angela Carini | Imane Khelif | IOC | Gender | World Boxing Championship | Firstpost | World News | News Live | Vantage | Palki Sharma | News

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[mohdaamir]

Hypocrisy when a Ireland boxer defeated Algerian khalif nobody said that she is a male, because they won and now when they defeated they called her a man. Western people never disappoint us in showing hypocrisy.

[talibanairport]

Yeah it's not fair to the Algerian to be pegged as a trans when in fact she is NOT. Up until yesterday I was under the impression that she was a transformer, even though that seemed strange as she is from Algeria! People need to get their head out of their cracks.

[kepler]

I love how first post do their research and present nothing but facts

[VijayPatil-tzcr]

Create a separate category for transgenders and others that's it.

[buggzy.]

They should have their own division . Stop abusing women

[MrBig-jtth]

That woman is more masculine than the whole BTS

[arturoblancocoto]

They say Khelif has xy chromosomes, and high testosterone levels for a woman

[garrywright-jftd]

No!... Her face... Her body... Her strength!... Shows that she is a man!.😮..

[wingsofsoul]

Why did she fail gender test last year?

[ateam]

The Olympics is absolutely disgraceful. This man being allowed to fight women is the lowest of the low.

[clownman]

She has XY chromosomes which is so rare when it comes to women because only males have it. Literally he is a male with a female organ and that makes it unfair.

[DanMorgan-bhfv]

Can we just ask a panel of Medical doctor's if having XY Chromosomes defines you as a man?

[soubhagya]

I've no comments on her gender.
But what about how s/he touched Carini so inappropriately after the match while going for a handshake.

[rabindrasangeetdr.mihirniy]

Same two boxers were disqualified by IBA in 2023 on medical grounds only

[Goronzo]

God bless you madam journalist. I feel bad about the silence of the Olympic committee.

[ashash]

She was having high levels of testosterone so she used medication to maintain within in the limits.

With the high testosterone she already built muscles like a man and then she reduced the testosterone levels for the Olympics .

[INDIGOBLUE]

We already had such problems with transgender athletes so time has come for "transgender class" championships to be held eventhough for some disciplines only, as like as boxing, swimming and athletics generally speaking.By the way, Italy has some links with Algeria and since algerian gas has partly replaced russian gas supplies, we can presume those links to be tighter than in the past.I would also like to stress that a silent confrontation is going on since decades between the two countries over the so called ZEE zone in the Mediterranean Sea !
So, at the end of the day, Italy had some good motivations to play down the importance of such an unfair challenge.👨👊👯

[K__R__K]

It's not about what reproductive organs you have.
It's about the XY or XX chromosome you get as an embryo. That sets the benchmark for BMR muscle bone density mitochondrial exchange and also testosterone levels

Testosterone levels alone don't make all the difference. Pregnant women have higher testosterone than otherwise

[gururao]

absolutely they need to resolve this confusion

[vineetsingh]

Wow, impressed 🤨
You got the facts right