Last week, the world watched in horror as an athlete believed to have male chromosomes beat up a woman in a boxing match that lasted less than a minute.
Female boxer Angela Carini, from Italy, quit after just 46 seconds against her opponent, Imane Khelif, from Algeria. Many reports indicate that Khelif is believed to be a biological male with XY chromosomes.
Last year, Khelif was not permitted to compete in an international boxing championship for women because he failed a gender eligibility test.
Watching Angela Carini cry just completely broke my whole heart. pic.twitter.com/uFg8tuhW1b
— (@m30524495) August 1, 2024
In remarks, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach claimed that Khelif was eligible to compete against women.
This week, former Olympian boxer and Olympic boxing trainer Rafa Lozano said in an interview with Radio Marca that Khelif was considered too dangerous for women to train against during a retreat in Spain.
“They were doing a training camp here at the Blume and we couldn’t put her with anyone. We put her with Jennifer Fernández and it hurt her. Whoever we put her with, it hurt her. We put her with José Quiles and they were equally matched. From my point of view I don’t see it as fair,” Lozano said in the interview. Quiles is a male boxer from Spain.
As for what unfolded last week at the Olympics, Lozano said, “I don’t see it as fair, I don’t see it as equitable. Everyone can think what they want, but that’s how I see it.”
That’s not all. According to Reduxx, in an exclusive interview with Le Point magazine, Khelif’s coach, Georges Cazorla, confirmed that Khelif “has a male karyotype and high testosterone.”
The biological tests carried out by the IBA in 2023 indicated that Khelif might not be female, he explained (via Reduxx):
Cazorla is the President of the Association for Research and Evaluation in Physical Activity and Sport (AREAPS), a scientific advisor, and a former lecturer University of Bordeaux who supervised the master’s thesis of Khelif’s manager, Nasser Yefsah. At the end of 2022, Yefsah contacted Cazorla to assist with Khelif’s training for the world championships, the African championships and the Olympic Games.
“The [disqualification] was based on tests. Frankly, I found it disgusting. Regardless of the results of these biological tests and, without going into detail – that is a matter for biologists and doctors – this poor young girl was devastated, devastated to suddenly discover that she might not be a girl,” Cazorla said.
He goes on to continuously assert that Khelif lived as a girl and has a “girl’s sensitivity,” but adds that Khelif has a “special” body type. When asked if individuals with “XY profiles” have specific physical advantages over those with “XX profiles,” Cazorla refused to say whether males were generally stronger than females.
“Some say that special categories should be made, but even within a group of hypoandrogenic or hyperandrogenic people, there are differences between them. There is such a large variation that we cannot constitute categories,” Cazorla said, appearing to bizarrely reject the validity of sex-based sport categories.
Khelif was not the only athlete to stir up controversy at the Olympics. Lin Yu‑ting, another boxer who failed a gender eligibility test and was disqualified from an international competition last year, participated in the Olympics. Lin easily defeated female athlete Sitora Turdibekova, from Uzbekistan.
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Biological male boxer pummels WOMAN and defeats her at the Paris Olympics, leaving her on the verge of tears.
Lin-Yu-Ting was previously barred from the 2023 women’s boxing World Championship for having male XY chromosomes.
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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 2, 2024
The only way this bullshit changes is if women boycott. You can’t have events with 1-2 people. Stand up to the freaks and they will wither away.
Drop your pants, turn head to the left and cough. You go fight over there with boys lightfoot.
The guy is a dude (XY). Stop trying to BS. People was cheering on a guy beating up a women and the Olympic committee was OK with this. Just discussing!
This will only stop when women (biological women)athletes refuse to compete in any sport, where a man, who thinks he’s a woman, is competing. All biological women must commit to doing this or it will go on forever. Imagine everyone lined up to start a race, and the only one who takes off is the delusional man. It would make a good visual statement.
Though I know it doesn’t seem fair, but in the next Olympics, all countries should weight until the last moment and then if any suspected man is in competition against women, the Country should refuse to allow their competing women to participate. Do this for a couple of years and it would straighten it out.