“It Wasn’t Easy To Go Through At All”: Female Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Spoke Out About The Ongoing Anti-Trans “Media Frenzy”

Many of these people based their claims on the fact that Imane was disqualified from the women's world championship last year after she failed to meet the International Boxing Association’s* gender eligibility criteria, per the Associated Press. Reports claimed that this was because Imane had high testosterone levels. However, there has never been evidence of this — nor has there been evidence of Imane having XY chromosomes, as the Washington Post noted.

*The International Boxing Association was stripped of its authority by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year due to “its failure to complete reforms on governance, finance and ethical issues.”

What’s more, Imane has been very vocal about what it was like partaking in boxing as a young girl from a rural village in Tiaret, Algeria. She told UNICEF earlier this year, “I particularly want to inspire girls and children who are disadvantaged in Algeria.”