Olympic women’s boxing now belongs to the men. Algerian Imane Khelif, who has XY chromosomes that make him a male, won welterweight division gold medal Friday against China’s Yang Liu.
The mainstream media reports that Imane is a woman because he has a passport that says so.
The International Boxing Association says it has blood tests showing that Imane and another boxer fighting in the women’s division, featherweight Lin Yu-Ting of Taipei, are indeed men. They are disqualified from boxing in the IBA women’s divisions.
Controversy has centered on the women’s boxing events at the Olympics in Paris, as the two men, who are reportedly equipped with both male and female sexual characteristics, have dominated women opponents.
