The First Female President of Taiwan condemns “unethical targeting” of Khelif and other women athletes in the astrophysical boxing competition

“This test conclusively indicated that both athletes did not meet the required necessary eligibility criteria and were found to have competitive advantages over other female competitors,” they wrote.

The lack of clarity about the gender eligibility criteria has led Italy’s family and sports minister to suggest that uniform international criteria is needed to 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 athletes to be subjected to mockery and ridicule just because of their appearance.

Taiwan’s First Female President wrote on X about Lin, saying he is an athlete who is fearless in the face of challenges.

Still, the southpaw has won many other titles — including bronze in featherweight at the 2019 Women’s World Boxing Championships, gold at bantamweight in 2018 and gold in featherweight in 2022.

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.

If she beats Staneva, Lin will become the first woman to win a medal in two Olympics. Lin won her opening bout Friday comfortably over Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova.

Khelif defeated Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary 5:0 in the quarterfinals of the women’s 66-kilogram bout. It was Khelif’s second victory in two Olympics, and she will win at least a bronze medal. Hungary’s boxing association was going to contest the International Olympic Committee, but still let the fight go ahead.

Carini quit within 46 seconds of the bout starting, after her chin strap was torn off by Khelif’s punches. She was crying in the ring and refused to shake Khelif’s hand.

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“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.

The process in which the athletes were disqualified last year and their female legal identities have been questioned by the IOC.

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 identify as women and have competed as women in boxing.

Vlogger-turned-WWE wrestler Logan Paul also slammed Khelif as a man, tweeting that the match was “the purest form of evil unfolding right before your eyes.” He deleted his post and wrote, “I might be guilty of spreading misinformation along with the entire 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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He said that they want a simple explanation. “Everyone wants a black-and-white explanation of how we can determine this. That is not an explanation available in the scientific community or anywhere else.

On Friday, spokesperson Adams reminded reporters that the IOC stopped blanket sex testing in 1999, and that “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 was difficult to navigate.

The IOC voted to take boxing off the Olympics program in June 2023, due to a years-long dispute over integrity, judging and transparency of management.

According to Mark Adams, they are female in their passports and this is the case. There isn’t anyone who can change their legal gender under Algeria’s law.

The Russian-dominated body of the IBA has refused to give any information about the tests, undercutting its lack of transparency in nearly every aspect.

In a new statement released this week, the IBA clarified that Khelif and Lin had not undergone a testosterone exam, but were “subject to a separate and recognized test, whereby the specifics remain confidential.”

In rare cases, women can have male chromosomes. Separately, there are a number of health conditions — most notably, polycystic ovary syndrome — that can cause women to produce excess male hormones.

IBA President Umar Krevlev told Russian state media that it was “proven they have XY chromosomes” — which is seen in men, as opposed to the XX genotype of women.

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The ISBA said in a statement that Khelif and Lin did not meet eligibility rules after taking a test.

She made her first Olympic appearance at the Tokyo Games in 2021, where she lost in the quarterfinal round to Ireland’s Kellie Harrington (and didn’t face any false allegations about her gender at the time, as many of her defenders are now noting).

“This whole spectacle is not unique to the Paris Olympics,” said Payoshni Mitra, the executive director of Humans of Sport, which supports athletes with sex variation.

The IBA said the tests indicated the two “were found to have competitive advantages over other female competitors.” The IBA did not give any documentation of the tests, even though it was asked.

Human Rights Watch said in a report that the exams discriminated against women on the basis of their sex, their sex characteristics, and their gender expression. This report was co-authored by Mitra.

People have looked at a lot of things over the years, including genitalia, chromosomes, and genes. The professor at Penn State University told me that the understanding of the definition of sex was not clear because each iteration has collapsed under its own weight.

“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.

In 1928, women who competed in their first Olympics were suspected of being too masculine, according to Schultz.

The first physical exams in the 1960s were launched by officials of athletic organizations. Women competing in a race were not told what to expect and were made to lay down on a couch and have their gynecological exams.

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 was able to challenge her dismissal in court and won in 1988 – but lost her privacy, scholarship and many relationships in the process.

“These are women who were assigned female sex at birth, who were brought up as girls and women, they have always competed as girls and women. Other women competing in the women’s category beat them. We are wondering if these women are women. This is not speculation at all. This is people’s lives.

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All of the hate speech, aggression and abuse that’s going on in the social media, is completely unacceptable.

The reduced field at the Paris Olympics boxing tournament — which has the fewest number of total boxers since 1956 — means that many fighters can clinch medals with just two victories. Boxing awards two bronze medals in each weight class, which means every semifinalist wins a medal.

Twelve years after women’s boxing made its Olympics debut, the gender balance in the sport achieved for the first time in Paris.

The winner of the Khelif and Janjaem Suwannapheng semifinals will face off for the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Suwannpheng, a silver medalist at last year’s world championships, upset defending Olympic champion Busenaz Surmeneli a few minutes before 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 to allow Hamori to leave the ring in a traditional boxing gesture of sportsmanship.

Khelif kicked off his fight on Saturday by snapping a left jab as the fighters circled. Her fans chanted her first name repeatedly midway through the opening round, and she bounded forward to throw a combination.

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“If they are coming up with something, we are ready to listen,” Bach added. We’re ready to look into it, but we’re not going to participate in a cultural war.

“What we see now is that some want to own the definition of who is a woman,” Bach added. “And there I can only invite them to come up with a scientific-based new definition of who is a woman, and how can somebody being born, raised, competed and having a passport as a woman cannot be considered a woman?

The story of Imane Khelif, a boxer from Algeria that won a medal at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, was one of the many stories that have arisen as a result of the misconception about her gender 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.

At a Paris Games that has championed inclusion and seen other outcry over an opening ceremony performance featuring drag queens, LGBTQ+ groups say the hateful comments could pose dangers to their community and female athletes.

She waved to her fans, knelt, and flung her palm on the canvas as she got emotional at the center of the ring. She left the ring to hug her coaches while her fans roared, weeping during their embrace and as she walked out.

IOC President Thomas Bach on Saturday defended Khelif and fellow boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan. Khelif and Lin were disqualified in the middle of last year’s world championships by the IBA, the former governing body of Olympic boxing after what it claimed were failed eligibility tests.