NEW: Imane Khelif will no longer be able to compete in WOMEN’s boxing competition due to new testing rules.
World Boxing is introducing new testing rules to test athletes biological sex.
The Olympic boxer, who sparked a gender row after winning a gold medal in women’s boxing at the Olympics will no longer be eligible to compete in the upcoming Eindhoven Box Cup.
Boxing’s new global governing body is introducing new testing from July – but has already informed Imane Khelif that the boxer won’t be eligible to compete as a female fighter at the event in the Netherlands next week.
Source: Sky News
IS IMANE KHELIF A MAN?
A medical report has revived the controversy around boxer Imane Khelif’s gender. The Algerian sportsperson clinched gold in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics 2024 amid accusations of being male since birth.
French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia reportedly shared Khelif’s medical report, drafted in June 2023 by expert endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young, according to an article published on Mint (Nov. 5, 2024).
According to Djaffar Ait Aoudia’s report published in Lecorrespondant, the medical report of the Algerian boxer indicated “an absence of a uterus,” the presence of “gonads in the inguinal canals” (testicles in her abdomen), “a blind vagina” and a micro-penis in the form of “clitoral hypertrophy.”
The report was drafted in collaboration between the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Hospital in Algiers, Algeria. It also suggested that Imane Khelif was affected by 5-alpha deficiency.
What is 5-alpha deficiency?
The deficiency, which mainly affects males, impacts humans at the time of birth and influences the normal growth of a child’s sexual organs. Due to the deficiency, male babies are incorrectly assigned female due to the presence of deformed genitalia.
The medical report also suggested that Imane Khelif might have been born to “parents who were perhaps blood relatives” and also recommended “surgical correction and hormone therapy.”