The Independent Council on Women’s Sports released a statement addressing Khelif’s admission
By Jackson Thompson for Fox News – Published – Fox
My cmnt: Much like Brittney Griner and Caster Semenya, Imane Khelif has one of a number of conditions known as differences in sex development, or DSDs, which cause naturally high testosterone that is in the typical male range. Semenya says her high natural testosterone should be considered a genetic gift in the same way as a basketballer’s height or a swimmer’s long arms. This is a bogus argument. Height and coordination occur in both men and women whereas high levels of testosterone always occur in men and are only vanishingly rare in women. And as with Griner, Semenya and Khelif these “women” have no curves, no breasts, deep voices with narrow hips and broad shoulders.
My cmnt: When these athletes compete against real women they don’t just win, they dominate as any top male athlete would. It is patently unfair to let hermaphrodite persons destroy women’s records and take their hard-earned medals. This also goes for transgender “women” competing against real women. Transgender women (i.e., males) are just cheating. Hermaphrodite persons are not purposefully cheating but they are still using an unfair and abnormal condition to win and as such need to be excluded from women’s sports. I totally sympathize with hermaphrodite people. Their life is already hard and it is certainly not their fault they were conceived with this genetic abnormality. Nevertheless the mass of female athletes cannot be made to suffer for them.
Boxer Imane Khelif admitted to having the SRY gene, located on the Y chromosome, which is found in biological males, and undergoing hormone treatments to lower testosterone levels ahead of the 2024 Olympics in an interview with the French sports publication L’Equipe.
Khelif has denied being transgender.
“We all have different genetics, different hormone levels. I’m not transgender. My difference is natural. This is who I am. I haven’t done anything to change the way nature made me. That’s why I’m not afraid,” Khelif said.
Imane Khelif, right, from Algeria and Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary during a boxing match. (Sina Schuldt/picture alliance via Getty Images)
“I have taken hormone treatments to lower my testosterone levels for competitions.”
Khelif committed to also taking a genetic sex test to compete in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, which will likely be required.
“For the next Games, if I have to take a test, I will. I have no problem with that,” Khelif said.
The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) released a statement addressing Khelif’s admission.
“Algerian Olympic women’s gold medalist Imane Khelif has now confirmed he is male. With men no longer eligible for Olympic women’s boxing under World Boxing rules, Khelif reportedly plans to box professionally in Europe, though he inexplicably says he will still undergo sex screening for the LA 2028 Games in hopes of competing,” the statement said.
Khelif won a gold medal in women’s boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics under heavy scrutiny from the International Boxing Association (IBA), which was derecognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2023 amid concerns about the organization’s governance, financial reliance on Russian state energy firm Gazprom and the integrity of the bouts.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif, right, defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in their women’s 66-kilogram preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/John Locher)
My cmnt: It was heartbreaking to watch Khelif pummel a real women, Angela Carini, into crying. Carini felt she let all of Italy down but she did not want to be permanently injured by this man. Khelif ruined this woman’s lifelong Olympic dreams and should not have been allowed by the Left-Libs to compete.
Khelif was previously disqualified from the IBA for failing a gender eligibility test. IBA President Umar Kremlev claimed at the time that unpublished DNA test results showed Khelif had XY chromosomes.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) defended the results of the Paris Games, stating that Khelif and another boxer who faced gender eligibility concerns were the victims of a “sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA.”
World Boxing, the international governing body for the sport, announced a new policy in August that introduces mandatory sex testing to ensure only females compete in the women’s category. Khelif has appealed the new policy that will keep the athlete out of any competitions pending the results of genetic testing.
Imane Khelif of Algeria, right, against Luca Anna Hamori of Hungary during a women’s 66-kilogram quarterfinal round match at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
Khelif did not compete in an international boxing tournament in the Netherlands last summer after failing to register in time before the applications closed.
President Donald Trump previously said there will be a “strong form of testing” when asked about potential genetic testing for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics at a news conference Aug. 5.
Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and in legacy media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.
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