“It’s not a shame to see a female boxer compete in a women’s sport,” said the Algerian presidential office on Twitter

“I think that athletes who have male genetic characteristics should not be admitted to women’s competitions,” she said, according to Reuters. It’s not because you want to discriminate against someone, but to make sure that female athletes are 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 is defending Khelif, issuing a statement on Wednesday condemning what it called 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 is wrong for the athlete to be “subjected to humiliation, insults and verbal bullying just because of your appearance and a controversial verdict in the past.”

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

In addition to that bronze medal at the Women’s World Boxing Championships, the southpaw has also won a gold in bantamweight in 2018, and a second in the same year, in the category of featherweight.

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, a two-time Olympian, would win her first medal on Sunday if she beats Staneva. Lin won her opening bout Friday comfortably over Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova.

Hamori has accepted the fight, saying she is “not scared” of Khelif. The Hungarian Boxing Association sent “letters of protest” to the IOC and the Hungary’s own Olympic committee, as reported by The Associated Press on Friday.

Carini quit just 46 seconds into the bout after Khelif’s punches dislodged her chinstrap and bloodied her shorts. She refused to shake hands with Khelif after she decided to withdraw.

An apology to Khelif and Rowling for their “Epistem of Evil” against two women in a female boxing competition

“The current aggression against these two athletes is based entirely on this arbitrary decision, which was taken without any proper procedure — especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years,” the International Olympic Committee said in a statement Thursday.

Olympic organizers are defending their right to compete in Paris and questioning the validity of those unspecified tests and the fairness of their previous disqualification, which they said happened without due process.

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. The athletes have been competing in boxing for years as female athletes.

The match was the epitome of evil, according to Paul, who slammed Khelif as a man in the same way. 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. Former President Donald Trump shared a video of the match on Truth Social, writing in all caps, “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!”

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Unfortunately, as a result of all the minefields, we want a simple explanation. Everyone wants a black-and-white explanation of how it’s possible. That explanation does not exist, neither in the scientific community, nor anywhere else.”

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 a minefield.

The IOC said in a statement that athletes would comply with the competition rules and medical regulations if they wanted to participate in the boxing tournament. It said it used the Tokyo boxing rules as the baseline for this year’s regulations.

Mark Adams, a spokesman for the government, told reporters this week that the women are female and they are in their passports. Under Algerian law one cannot change their legal gender.

It was reported by the Associated Press that olympic officials were displeased with the way presidents from Russia and Uzbekistan ran the IBA, and that its sole sponsor was a Russian state energy firm.

The IBA said in a new statement that Khelif and Lin didn’t have to take a testosterone exam but would have to take a separate and recognized test.

It is medically possible for women to have male chromosomes, in rare cases. Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the conditions that can cause women to produce excess male hormones.

This method was challenged in the mid-1980s by a Spanish hurdler named Maria José Martínez-Patiño who was dismissed from the Spanish Olympic team in 1985 for failing the chromosome sex test. The test revealed that, unbeknownst to her, Martínez-Patiño had an XY chromosome, and had androgen insensitivity syndrome. An individual with AIS can have genitals that appear female, but they don’t have female reproductive organs.

The IBA said in a statement at the time that Khelif and Lin had “failed to meet eligibility rules, following a test conducted by an independent laboratory.”

In the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, she lost in the quarterfinals, but did not face false allegations of her gender at the time.

The executive director of Humans of Sport, Payoshni Mitra, said that the Paris Olympics are not unique to athletes with sex variation.

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The IBA said tests showed the two were found to have advantages over other female competitors. The IBA is not providing documentation of the tests and did not reply to the NPR questions.

Human Rights Watch said in a report that these exams discriminate against women on the basis of sex, their sex characteristics and their gender expression. A co-author of this report was Mitra.

people have looked at genitalia, they’ve looked at chromosomes, they’ve looked at a specific genes, they’ve looked at testosterone. There is no clear cut definition of sex, and each iteration of testing has collapsed under its own weight, said a professor with Penn State University.

“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.

Women who competed in the first Olympic track and field events for women were thought to be too masculine.

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 lost her privacy, scholarship and many relationships as a result of her fight in court to challenge her dismissal.

These are women who were assigned female sex at birth, and have always competed as girls and women. They have been beaten by other women competing in the women’s category. And yet, we are questioning whether these women are women,” Mitra said. This is not mere speculation. This is actually the people’s lives.

Imane Khelif clinches Olympic medal after gender outcry in a semi-infinite event at the Olympic Weightlifting Games

There is a lot of hate speech, aggression and abuse on the social media, and it’s totally unacceptable.

The Paris Olympic boxing tournament, which has the lowest number of total boxers since 1955, means that many fighters will only win two victories for a medal. Boxing awards two bronze medals in each weight class, which means every semifinalist wins a medal.

The Olympic sport reached gender parity for the first time in Paris, inviting 124 men and 124 women just 12 years after women’s boxing made its Olympic debut.

At the Tokyo Games in 2021, Khelif didn’t win a medal but he will now face Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand in the semifinals on Tuesday. The defending Olympic champion was upset by Suwannpheng a few minutes prior to 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 so that Hamori could 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, and she was in a hurry to throw a combination.

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

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If they come 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.”

“What we see now is that some want to own the definition of who is a woman,” Bach added. They should come up with a science-based new definition of who is a female and how can a person with a passport and being born a female 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 unusual ending became a sharp wedge to drive into an already prominent divide over gender identity and regulations in sports, drawing comments from the likes of former U.S. President Donald Trump, “Harry Potter” writer J.K. Rowling and others falsely claiming Khelif was a man or transgender.

The Paris Games have advocated inclusion and the opening ceremony performance featured drag queens, but many hate groups say the comments could pose a danger to the community.

Khelif’s win was emotional as she went to the center of the ring, waved to her fans and slammed her palm on the canvas, her 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.

The IOC President defended Lin Yu-ting and Khelif. The IBA, which had been the governing body of Olympic boxing, claimed that Khelif and Lin failed eligibility tests and that they were disqualified from last year’s world championships.