A leaked report of a medical test on boxer Imane Khelif from the 2023 World Championships has “proved” the women’s Olympic champion is a biological male. The Mail has more.
The alleged results comes less than two days after World Boxing ruled that Khelif would need to undergo sex screening to be eligible for any future appearances in female events.
Khelif won a women’s boxing gold medal representing Algeria boxing at the Paris Games.
Khelif was deemed eligible to compete in France despite World Boxing having known about the 2023 more than a year’s previous knowledge about the the test, with IOC president Thomas Bach previously questioning the test’s legitimacy.
“Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype,” the document, seen by 3 Wire Sports via Telegraph Sport, states.
Broadcaster Piers Morgan was among the first to respond to reports of the test, writing on social media site X: “The biology-denying woke brigade abused and shamed me for saying it was outrageous and dangerous for Khelif to be beating up women at the Olympics.
“I’m ready for their apology, but won’t hold my breath.”
Former Olympian Sharron Davies was similarly convinced by the report, writing: “When did we stop believing in our eyes and gut! Oh yeah when we decided women’s sport didn’t matter…”
Conservative activist Riley Gaines also weighed in, referring to Khelif with male pronouns and saying: “To all the people that insisted Imane Khelif was a woman because his passport said so,
“You were wrong. We were right. Sincerely, People with functioning eyes and a shred of honesty.”
The results reportedly have a date of being collected of March 17th 2023 – the same year that Khelif was disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA), the former governing body for the sport for “failing gender eligibility tests”.
The document claims to have come from Dr Lal PathLabs in New Delhi, a laboratory which is accredited by the American College of Pathologists and certified by the International Organisation for Standardisation.
The report was initially published by the journalist Alan Abrahamson, who first brought reports of Khelif’s alleged failed gender eligibility test to public attention at the Paris Games.
Worth reading in full.
Khelif appears to be intersex rather than transgender. While reported to be genetically male, he is said to have been raised as a girl and to be anatomically female (in terms of genitalia). We can sympathise with such a challenging condition, but it doesn’t of course change the physical reality of having male bulk from male genetics and the impact of that on fairness and safety in women’s sport.
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