Published:
18 ago 2024 09:15 GMT
The former US president considers the participation of Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting and Algerian Imane Khelif in women’s boxing to be “degrading” for women.
During a act At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former US President Donald Trump attacked two female boxers who won gold medals at the Paris Olympics, questioning whether they were women.
Trump’s remarks, which are part of his promise to “keep men out of women’s sports,” have rekindled the debate regarding gender identity Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.
“They were men. They transitioned to women, and they were in boxing,” she said, referring to both medalists. “It’s crazy, it’s so degrading to women,” Trump added. “Our country has gone mad”he lamented.
Lin and Khelif were expelled from the International Boxing Association (IBA) World Championships last year for not passing the gender eligibility testHowever, both were allowed by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the women’s category in the French capital after the IBA, led by Russian Umar Kremliov, was stripped of the right to govern boxing at the Games.
The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, has repeatedly defended the right of female athletes to participate in women’s competitions. In early August, he said at a press conference that the two boxers are women and that “there has never been any doubt” about this. However, on another occasion, he declared that, for the moment, There is no “scientifically sound” system identification of men and women for Olympic Games competitions.
