Imane Khelif has lodged a legal complaint over reports that surfaced earlier this week and that claim to have evidence that the boxer has XY chrosomes. The Olympic gold medallist has suffered a barrage of online abuse since competing in Paris.
Imane Khelif has lodged a legal complaint over reports that surfaced earlier this week and that claim to have evidence that the boxer has XY chrosomes. The Olympic gold medallist has suffered a barrage of online abuse since competing in Paris.
I thought they were trans
That is because you are the victim of a misinformation campaign. You are in a good place now to begin learning from reliable, vetted sources.
I’m ok with trans people
That’s good.
Khelif was the subject of a misinformation campaign specifically targeted toward Russians to disqualify her from competing at a high level against Russian athletes. She is not trans, and has never identified as other than female. There is strong indication that falsified hormone tests were used to remove her as a threat to Russian boxers.
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She is not. She is from a country where it’s rather frowned upon in fact
That’s the part that really gets me about all this… the idea that she’s trans or intersex or whatever… and fucking Tunisia would allow her to compete as a woman?