Sky News Australia published November 5, 2024: TV hosts react to medical report claiming boxer Imane Khelif is a biological man.
Sky News host Caleb Bond, Liz Storer and James Macpherson have reacted to the latest news over Algerian boxer Imane Khelif as a ‘leaked’ report claims the athlete is a biological man.
It follows after a major gender row arose during the 2024 Paris Olympics when Khelif and Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting were at the centre of controversy after they were given the green light from the International Olympic Committee to compete in female boxing despite failing a gender eligibility test at the 2023 world championships.
“The IOC ought to apply, to every other woman who competed in the female boxing, we got it wrong but we're not gonna hear that from them, are we?” Mr Bond said.
The Platform NZ published Nov 6, 2024: Ro Edge Reacts To Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Confirmed As A Man. Sean Plunket talks to Ro Edge from Save Women’s Sport about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif being confirmed as a man.
Reduxx Mag, Feminist News and Opinion
written by Anna Slatz
Monday November 4, 2024
A shocking new development has emerged in the case of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif after a French journalist reportedly gained access to a damning medical report revealing Khelif has “testicles.” The news comes months after Khelif seized a gold medal in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics.
The report was drafted in June of 2023 via a collaboration between the Kremlin-Bicรชtre hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers, Algeria. Drafted by expert endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young, the report reveals that Khelif is impacted by 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a disorder of sexual development that is only found in biological males.
The genetic abnormality influences the normal development of a child’s sexual organs. At birth, male babies impacted by 5-alpha are often incorrectly assigned female due to the presence of deformed genitalia that sometimes takes on the appearance of a “blind vaginal pouch.”
This disordered development typically becomes apparent by puberty, when 5-alpha adolescents begin to experience signs of masculinization such as muscle growth, hair growth, and an absence of breast tissue development or menstruation. Without access to a proper clinical examination, males with 5-alpha may incorrectly believe they are female into adulthood.
At the end of October, French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia obtained a copy of a thorough physical examination that was conducted on Khelif in order to verify the presence of a disorder of sexual development.
According to Aoudia, the clinical report reveals that an MRI determined that Khelif had no uterus, but instead had internal testicles and a “micropenis” resembling an enlarged clitoris. A chromosomal test further confirmed that Khelif has an XY karyotype, while a hormone test found that Khelif had a testosterone level typical of males. Aoudia also noted that doctors suggested Khelif’s parents may have been blood relatives.
The report concludes by recommending Khelif be referred for “surgical correction and hormone therapy,” to help him physically align with his self-perceived gender identity, and adds that psychological support would be required because the results had caused a “very significant neuropsychiatric impact.”
This report coincides with an earlier admission by Khelif’s coach, Georges Cazorla, that the Algerian boxer had been subjected to an assessment at the Kremlin-Bicรชtre Hospital after being disqualified from women’s boxing by the International Boxing Association (IBA) in March of 2023.
In an interview from August, Cazorla tepidly conceded that the endocrinologists had determined there was a “problem with [Khelif’s] chromosomes” at the time. Despite this fact, Cazorla insisted that Khelif should still be allowed to compete against females.
Cazorla also stated that Khelif was placed on testosterone suppressants following the 2023 medical assessment. However, the International Olympic Committee has not submitted athletes to chromosomal testing since 1999 and, at the Paris Olympics, the only requirement to participate in women’s boxing was to have a female sex marker on legal documents.
Further confirmation of the boxers’ karyotype was given by Alan Abrahamson, an associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, who is a specialist in Olympic sports and member of the International Olympic Committee’s press committee. In an August statement, Abrahamson said that he had personally viewed the results of the hotly-contested chromosomal tests ordered by the IBA in 2022 and 2023 which “concluded the boxer’s DNA was that of a male consisting of XY chromosomes.”
The news of Khelif’s leaked medical report comes after he won gold at the Paris Olympics in the women’s 66kg category.
In collaboration with the Independent Council on Women’s Sport (ICONS), Reduxx was the first outlet to break the news of Khelif’s participation in women’s boxing at Paris, raising alarm bells due to his previous disqualification from women’s boxing by the IBA. The news sparked a firestorm of controversy, with the IBA coming out in opposition to the IOC’s decision to allow biological males to box against women in Paris.
During a press conference in August, the IBA repeatedly confirmed that Khelif had failed multiple chromosomal tests, but was barred from releasing the results of those tests by the Algerian Olympic Committee.
Speaking to Reduxx on this latest revelation, ICONS co-founder Marshi Smith slammed the IOC and the Algerian Olympic Committee for allowing Khelif to continue his journey to Paris gold despite being fully aware he was genetically male.
“The IOC and the Algerian Olympic Committee are complicit in endorsing male violence against women under the guise of public entertainment on the world’s largest sports stage,” Smith said. “They stood by as women were subjected to physical assault for spectacle, stripped of safety, fairness, and their lifetime achievements. All those involved must face swift and serious consequences.”
Smith adds that she believes Khelif should be stripped of his gold medal, but doubts any action will be taken to rectify the injustice.
“We urge leaders in sports and governments worldwide to condemn the IOC and demand a public commitment to ensuring fair and safe sports for women from this day forward. This must never be allowed to happen again.”
Yesterday, the International Boxing Association held a press conference addressing the concerns surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting.
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Guardian Sport published August 10, 2024 PARIS: 'I am a woman': Imane Khelif speaks out about gender row after winning gold. Imane Khelif responded to those who have questioned her gender after winning gold in the women's 66kg boxing at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
So he was born a male with deformed male private parts. Naturally his parents couldn't raise him as a male with deformed private parts because he would be teased and bullied growing up as a male for having deformed male private parts. Understandably, his parents had the Algerian doctors register his birth certificate to show he was born a female and raised him as a girl.All he knows since birth is he is a female no matter what the medical report proves. He has lived his entire life as a female. Think of Hayao Miyazaki's anime movie, Princess Mononoke. She was raised by wolves since birth and therefore believed she was a wolf and acted like a wolf, and even dressed herself to look like her wolf family.All this being said, this does not give him the right to be eligible to register as a female boxer and have the unfair advantage to beat the crap out of female boxers who have been dedicating their entire lives to eventually win the gold medal in this sport category. The Olympics committee should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this slip by so as not to hurt his feelings. Well, how about the feelings of the professional female boxers he rob of their Olympic gold medal dreams? (emphasis mine)
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