Three months after being proclaimed Olympic boxing champion at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, new information appearing in France reopens the controversy around Imane Khelif. Her resounding victory, without giving up a single round, and striking images such as the tearful withdrawal of the Italian Angela Carini after not being able to withstand the harshness of the Algerian’s blows, made her one of the outstanding figures of the games. for his evident manly appearance. Now, a medical report revealed by a French journalist ensures that the boxer has male biological characteristics.
Imane Khelif is a man. His medical reports show that he has XY chromosomes, male testosterone, testicles, and a micropenis.
The IOC knew this, and let us watch how he beat women and took the gold medal from them at the Olympic Games.https://t.co/Yx7jIdljck
— Irene Aguiar (@IreneAguiarG) November 4, 2024
Djaffar Ait Aoudia has made public a report, prepared in June 2023 between the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers and attributed to the endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young, which concludes that the boxer has 5-alpha reductase deficiencyan enzyme with various functions in the body from the embryonic state and whose presence is important because it increases or decreases male and female characters, and therefore Khelif has a disorder of sexual development that is only found in biological males.
At birth, male babies affected by 5-alpha syndrome are often incorrectly assigned as female due to the presence of poorly defined genitals that sometimes take on the appearance of a “blind vaginal pouch.” This type of genetic condition usually becomes evident at puberty, when male physical characteristics such as increased muscle growth and body hair appear, in addition to the absence of breast development or menstruation.
According to the journalist, the report reveals that an MRI determined that Imane Khelif It did not have a uterus, but rather internal testicles and an enlarged clitoris-like “micropenis”. Furthermore, chromosomal tests determined an XY karyotype and a typical male testosterone level. Therefore, it concludes with the recommendation of “surgical correction and hormonal therapy” to help her physically align with her self-perceived gender identity.
Imane Khelif would not therefore be hyperandrogynous, as was stated, in reference to women who produce a high concentration of male sex hormones.
The report revealed by Djaffar Ait Aoudia would coincide with the recognition by Khelif’s coach that the Algerian had undergone an evaluation at the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital after being disqualified from women’s boxing by the International Boxing Association (IBA) in March 2023. Georges Cazorla admitted in an interview that endocrinologists had determined that there was a “problem with the chromosomes” and that he had been prescribed testosterone suppressants.
The IBA criticized the IOC decision
Although the controversy at the Paris Olympic Games broke out after the tearful withdrawal of the Italian Carini, it had its origins much earlier, when the first voices were raised against the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to let her participate in the women’s competition. despite having been excluded from it by the IBA. In fact, the IBA itself spoke out against the IOC’s decision to allow biological males to box against women in the Paris Games. During a press conference in August, he confirmed that Khelif had failed multiple chromosome tests, but was unable to reveal the results of those tests because the Algerian Olympic Committee prohibited him from doing so.
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