Finishing a boxing match in 46 seconds would have been an impressive feat for any boxer at the Paris Olympics, but for Algerian boxer Iman Khalif, it was a cause for concern at the center of a global controversy over Her “sex” still continues even after her second victory, on Saturday, and her qualification to the semi-finals.
and the sabbath Kleif got Algeria’s first medal At the Olympics in Paris, after defeating the Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori on points in the quarter-finals of 66 kg.
Khalif (25 years old) was caught in a whirlwind of accusations that cast doubt on her eligibility to participate, after she was suspended from last year’s World Championships by the International Boxing Federation, and then allowed her to participate in the games with the International Olympics. Committee.
After her victory, on Saturday, with a unanimous vote of the judges, Khalif told the beIN Sports channel, “This is a matter of honor and dignity of every woman or woman who has known me for years, I has been boxing in competitions with the International Federation, which offended me but I have God.”
After the gender controversy, the father of Algerian boxing, Iman Khalif, breaks his silence
Algerian boxing father Iman Khalif described the campaign targeting his daughter after her first fight at the Paris Olympics as immoral, and urged her to go ahead and win the gold medal to win
The Algerian boxer’s father described the campaign targeting his daughter at the Paris Olympics as immoral, and urged her to go ahead and win the gold medal.
And in Statements Reported by the Daily Mail newspaper, Ammar Khalif said the controversy surrounding his daughter is part of a “trick” to prevent her from winning a medal at the Olympic Games.
He said, “The attacks against her are immoral, and this is not fair. Iman is a girl who has loved sports since she was six years old. , and she would play soccer.”
In her first fight in Paris, Italian Angela Carini pulled back, seconds after Algerian Khalif landed a punch, sparking a debate about biology, genetics, and justice in athletics. It also started a storm of misinformation about her gender and her eligibility to compete in the Olympics.
Last year, the International Boxing Federation said that Iman had been “confirmed to have XY chromosomes” (which are usually associated with males), and the International Olympic Committee ignored the tests that the International Boxing Association did and allowed Khalifa to participate. in the Paris contests.
Khalif, who participated in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and other women’s competitions, does not identify as transgender or bisexual, according to a statement issued by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Demise (GLAAD).
Several media outlets have suggested that Khalif may have a developmental gender difference, sometimes known as Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD).
This is a wide range of rare conditions where reproductive organs and other characteristics may be “imbalanced” by their genes, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
In some cases, this means that people are born with the male chromosomes usually – one Or people with these conditions can be born with a female chromosome (XX) but a male penis.
False claims online about Khalif misrepresented how the condition might affect medical anatomy. The presence of DSD disorders can mean several things in terms of how a person’s body developed.
Key figures intervened… “strange” campaign against Algerian woman, Khalif, accused of sexual promiscuity
The statement of the Olympic Committee did not succeed in removing the Algerian boxer, Iman Khalif, from a campaign that became global after her first fight, which she finished in 45 seconds.
“Perhaps the reason why the intersex athletes we are talking about would have been registered as female at birth is because that decision was based on the external genitalia, “said Alun Williams, professor of sport and exercise genomics at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Institute of Sport, which is similar to those for the average woman, according to a report from the “Hi ho“.
“In some cases, they can be completely different internally. They may or may not have a cervix, they may have internal testes, rather than an ovary, and it depends on the type of DSD disorder,” he said.
How common is this?
Although these conditions are rare, estimated to be about 2% of the population, there are likely “thousands” of people with DSD worldwide, Williams says.
But there are so many specific conditions and physiologies that fall under this umbrella term that “almost no two are the same,” said the expert.
Khalif is not transgender, people like her are often labeled as intersex, and unlike a transgender person, an intersex person does not experience any transition . They are simply born with some male characteristics, usually invisible, including their chromosomes, and some female characteristics, which are often visible from the outside.
“Being bisexual or transgender are two completely different situations,” Williams explains.
In many cases, intersex people live their entire lives without knowing they have DSD, as was the case for South African track star Caster Semenya, who was diagnosed with a Y chromosome as a result competition test.
It is not at all clear that intersex athletes have a performance advantage over others, according to Roger Pelkey, a professor of sports management at the University of Colorado.
2024-08-03 08:01:26
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