Boxing at Paris 2024 (Les Jeux de la XXXIII Olympiade)

Actually you're wrong. Khelif failed the IBA's version of a "gender test" which just measures testosterone levels, and he didn't meet the arbitrary threshold set to be competition eligible. She's a Muslim woman from a not even remotely progressive region, and has lived as one her entire life in Algeria. There are family pictures of her from when she was a little girl.

 

Navbakhor Khamidova (UZB) vs. Morelle McCane (USA), Women's 66kg - Preliminaries - Round of 16 (#139)

 

All hanging in the balance - first round went the Uzbek's way and second the American's.

 

29-28 x2, 28-29, 30-27, 27-30, SD for Khamidova.

 

Pang Cholmi (PRK) vs. Widad Bertal (MAR), Women's 54kg quarterfinals

 

Point deducted from the Morrocan in the opening round. Four judges go 10-8 for the North Korean, the fifth goes 9-9 (meaning he awarded Bertal the round 10-9 before the point deduction)

 

28-28, 30-26 x3, 29-27, MD for Cholmi

 

Hatice Akbaş (TUR) vs.

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, Women's 54kg quarterfinals

 

Kremlev of the IBA - very much an unreliable narrator - claims they did a DNA test. Very much in doubt that's what actually happened. They probably just measured testosterone levels. Which again is a failed methodology because it doesn't account for a slew of different scenarios besides a person being trans (intersex spectrum, hyperandrogenism, etc)

 

Who says they didn't? They, and the Algerian boxing authorities, did their own investigation and ruled Khelif a female. Their word carries a lot more weight than IBA's.

Once more I ask you: do you think Algeria, which is devoutly Sunni Islam and firmly anti-LGBT, would allow Khelif to compete if biologically male?

 

30-27 x3, 29-28 x2, UD for Akbaş, guaranteeing herself at least a bronze medal with a berth in the semifinals.