I’m not surprised at all that the idiots in Paris are now putting female boxers at risk competing against trans, biological male boxers. I’m just shocked that one of these trans boxers comes from a country like Algeria.. I didn’t think they allowed stuff like this in countries like that, but I guess I was wrong.
.@ImaneKhelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in women’s Olympic boxing 🥊— despite being disqualified last year for having XY chromosomes, the male phenotype. Let’s remind ourselves that males – however they identify – pack a punch that is 162% more… https://t.co/ylGAvJ8Mk6 pic.twitter.com/SwnWslvHZ5
— Nancy Hogshead, JD, Oly (@Hogshead3Au) July 29, 2024
Two boxers who were banned from the world championships for being deemed biologically male have been cleared to compete at the Olympics as women.
A row has erupted in Paris after it emerged that Imane Khelif, of Algeria, and Lin Yu-Ting, of Taiwan, were thrown out of the tournament last year amid questions over their biological sex.
Following last year’s ban, the Algerian Olympic Committee hit back, claiming the disqualification was part of a ‘conspiracy’ to stop them from winning a gold meal and said ‘medical reasons’ were behind high testosterone levels.
After the disqualification, Mexico’s Brianda Tamara came forward with her own experience of fighting Khelif earlier in the tournament.
‘When I fought with her I felt very out of my depth,’ she wrote on X. ‘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.’
But Khelif, a welterweight, is due to fight Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday, with Yu-Ting, a featherweight, in action on Friday.
According to feminist website Reduxx, both are thought both are impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), a series of medical conditions identified at birth where genitalia is atypical in relation to chromosomes.