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Eligibility-row boxer Khelif secures Paris medal

Boxer Imane Khelif, whose gender eligibility has been called into question, was in tears after guaranteeing a welterweight medal at the Paris Olympics by beating Hungarian Luca Anna Hamori.

The Algerian is one of two boxers competing in Paris despite being banned from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after she was reported to have failed gender eligibility tests, a situation which has sparked huge controversy.

The 25-year-old's previous bout lasted just 46 seconds but Khelif, having entered the ring to cheers from loud Algerian support, went the full three rounds on Saturday, winning by unanimous decision.

"I feel good," an emotional Khelif told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.

"It's the first medal in women's boxing in Algeria - I'm very happy. I want to thank all the world and the Arabic world - thank you so much."

Hamori said prior to the fight she did not "think it is fair" Khelif was competing, but the bout was largely fought in good spirits.

The pair shared an embrace after the bell and again after the result was confirmed.

"It was a very hard day for both of us but I just want to say it was a great fight and I wish good luck to Khelif in the future, and thank you so much," Hamori said.

Asked again if she thought the fight was unfair, Hamori, who was booed into the arena, said: "I don't care about it."

Shortly after the fight, Algeria president Abdelmadjid Tebboune posted on social media: "You have honoured Algeria, Algerian women and Algerian boxing. We will stand by your side, whatever your results are. Good luck in the next two rounds and moving forward."

Khelif will meet Janjaem Suwannapheng, who beat favourite Busenaz Surmeneli - the 2021 Olympic champion from Turkey - in the semi-final on Tuesday.

Even if she loses Khelif will leave the Paris Games with a bronze medal.

Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting have been strongly backed amid tense debate by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who run the boxing competitions at the Games.

IOC president Thomas Bach said earlier on Saturday there was "never any doubt" the pair are women.

Khelif reached the final of last year's World Championships before being disqualified by the IBA - a Russia-led organisation suspended by the IOC in 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.

The IBA said Khelif had "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women's competition, as set and laid out" in its regulations, while the IOC said the pair had been "suddenly disqualified without any due process".

On Saturday, the IBA said it would hold a news conference on Monday "dedicated to the detailed explanation of the reasons for the disqualification" of Khelif and Lin.

'Controversy is a joke'

Yacine Arab, the Algeria National Olympic Committee's sport manager, said the controversy around Khelif has been a "joke".

Some reports have taken the IBA statement that Khelif and Lin have XY chromosomes to speculate they might have differences of sexual development (DSD) like runner Caster Semenya.

Arab denied this. Speaking to the BBC's Roan before Saturday's fight he said: "When she arrived at the village she did this test.

"Do you think if she was positive they would let her fight? Never. She did all the tests - even the tests for pregnancy. All the tests were negative.

"[The IBA] said she was positive and her testosterone is very, very high. Then the medical president of the IOC said that it's really normal in boxing that the athletes' testosterone is high. For all the girls it is the same. Imane is not alone in this case.

"The controversy is a joke. Everyone knows that Imane was born a girl. She has fought all her life as a girl. All the competitions she was a girl. When she was losing nobody talked about this."

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Lin secures medal amid eligibility row​


Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting became the second boxer at the centre of a gender eligibility row to secure a medal at the Paris Olympics as she reached the semi-finals of the women's featherweight division.

The 28-year-old beat Svetlana Staneva, 34, by unanimous decision - but after the bout the Bulgarian's coach suggested Lin should not have been allowed to compete.

A visibly frustrated Staneva, 34, left the arena making a cross with her fingers, shouting "no, no".

Like Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif who progressed on Saturday, Lin is competing in Paris despite being banned from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA).

The fighters were reported to have failed gender eligibility tests at the Worlds, a situation which has sparked huge controversy.

In an interview with BBC sports editor Dan Roan on Thursday, IBA chief executive Chris Roberts said XY male chromosomes were found in "both cases".

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is running the boxing at the Olympics, has raised doubts about the accuracy of the tests.

The BBC has not seen the results and, as yet, has not been able to determine what the eligibility tests consisted of.

"I'm not a medical person who should say if Lin could compete or not here, but when the test shows that he or she has the Y chromosome she should not be here," Staneva's coach Borislav Georgiev told BBC Sport.

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Olympic boxing: Lin Yu-ting secures medal amid gender eligibility row

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting becomes the second boxer at the centre of a gender eligibility row to secure a medal at the Paris Olympics.
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Olympic boxer in gender eligibility row hits out at ‘bullies’ as IBA doubles down​


An Algerian boxer in the centre of an Olympics gender eligibility row has accused those opposed to her presence at the Games of being bullies as the Russian head of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev, launched a fresh barrage of criticism at a chaotic press conference.

Imane Khelif, who is assured of at least a bronze medal ahead of her next bout on Tuesday, said she hoped that a gold medal would come out of the pain she had endured over the past week.

“I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes, because this has effects, massive effects,” Khelif said. “It can destroy people, it can kill people’s thoughts, spirit and mind. It can divide people. And because of that, I ask them to refrain from bullying.”

Khelif, a welterweight, and Lin Yu-ting, a featherweight from Taiwan (competing as Chinese Taipei), who is also assured of a bronze, are competing in Paris despite the IBA claiming that they failed to meet their gender eligibility rules last year.

The two athletes’ presence became headline news after the Italian boxer Angela Carini abandoned her bout against Khelif after 46 seconds of the fight, claiming she had never been hit harder.

The IOC has described the tests undertaken on Khelif and Lin by the IBA, which was stripped of its status as the sport’s governing body last year over issues relating to integrity and corruption, as lacking credibility.

A press conference was called by the IBA in Paris on Monday to explain their position but it was overshadowed by lengthy and rambling interventions by Kremlev who attended via a video-link from an office believed to be in Moscow.

He criticised the Games’ opening ceremony as “something horrible for all Christians and Muslims around the world”, insulted Thomas Bach, the head of the International Olympic Committee, and claimed that the tests undertaken by his doctors had found a “men’s level of testosterone” in the two boxers.

The IBA’s doctor Ioannis Filippatos and the chief executive of the boxing organisation, Chris Roberts, a former head of Scottish boxing, later said, however, that the athletes had chromosome tests rather than one for testosterone.

“The results of the chromosome tests demonstrated both boxers were ineligible,” Roberts told reporters.

Roberts said that there had been two blood tests conducted on Khelif and Lin. The first was in May 2022 and a laboratory in Istanbul had found “inconsistencies”. A further test was carried out eight months later at the world championships at which point the IBA declared the two fighters ineligible to fight in the women’s competition.

Imane Khelif on her way to victory over Anna Hamori in the quarter-finals. Photograph: John Locher/AP
Roberts said that he was unable to say more about the test results after being warned off by the organising committees of Algeria and Taiwan (Chinese Taipei).

Roumaysa Boualam, an Algerian teammate of Khelif who is an African champion and was the first female boxer to represent her country at an Olympic Games in 2021, attended the press conference with her national flag.

She said: “I came here to refute the rumours about Imane Khelif and offer her my support. This is the case for me, but also for all the Algerian supporters and journalists present here, who know the truth.

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Khelif wins again to reach final amid eligibility row

Boxer Imane Khelif will fight for an Olympic gold medal on Friday after putting aside the row surrounding her eligibility to comprehensively win her semi-final against Janjaem Suwannapheng in Paris.

The Algerian welterweight is one of two boxers competing in Paris despite being disqualified from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after she was reported to have failed gender eligibility tests.

Amid wild support under the roof of Court Philippe Chatrier - the French tennis venue repurposed for the boxing finals - Khelif dominated her Thai opponent to win by unanimous decision.

The win secured progression to her first Olympic final, having been knocked out in the quarter-finals in Tokyo three years ago.

She will fight Liu Yang of China in the gold-medal bout, bidding to become Algerian's first boxing gold medallist.


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Imane Khelif will fight for Olympic gold on Friday after putting aside the controversy surrounding her gender eligibility.
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She is not a transgender, she was born biological female, conservatives should have nonissue with her competing considering their stance on the whole trans issue.
 
Boxer Lin reaches final amid eligibility row

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting secured a place in Saturday's Olympic women's featherweight final amid the ongoing controversy over her eligibility.

Lin and Imane Khelif are competing in Paris despite being disqualified from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after reportedly failing gender eligibility tests.

After Khelif secured her place in the welterweight final on Tuesday, 28-year-old Lin reached her own gold-medal match with another comprehensive, unanimous decision victory as she overcame Esra Yildiz Kahraman.

As she left the ring, the 27-year-old from Turkey made the same 'X' sign with two fingers as Lin's previous opponent, Svetlana Staneva.

Kahraman first held the ropes open for Lin, then returned to the centre of the ring and made the symbol with two of her fingers, turning around to present it to all areas of the crowd.

Staneva's 'X' was reportedly said to have symbolised female XX chromosomes.

Kahraman did not speak to BBC Sport after the fight. One of her team said "no comment" when asked by the media about the meaning of the gesture.

Lin will meet 20-year-old Pole Julia Atena Szeremeta, who beat Tokyo silver medallist Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines, in the biggest bout of her career on Saturday.

"I feel very excited and one step closer to my final goal," Lin told BBC Sport.

Lin has won two golds medals at World Championships but has not contested an Olympic final, having lost in the last 16 to Petecio at the Tokyo Games.

At last year's World Championships, Lin reached the semi-finals - thus securing a bronze medal - but was disqualified by the IBA.

The IBA said Lin had "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women's competition, as set and laid out" in its regulations.

But Lin and Algerian Khelif, who was disqualified from the same tournament, have been allowed to compete at the Olympics, which is run by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The IOC, which suspended the IBA in 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging, has strongly backed Lin and Khelif, with president Thomas Bach saying there was "never any doubt" they are women.

The organisation said competitors were eligible for the women's division if their passports said they were female, and a a chaotic news conference held on Monday did little to lessen the confusion around the IBA's stance as key figures gave conflicting statements as to why the pair were banned.

Khelif fights Liu Yang of China for gold on Friday at 21:51 BST. Lin's bout will open the final night of boxing at the Paris Olympics at 20:30 on Saturday.

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Attacks over gender make gold sweeter – Khelif

Imane Khelif said "attacks" over her gender eligibility gave her victory a "special taste" after she won Olympic women's boxing gold a year after being disqualified from the World Championships.

The Algerian was banned and reported to have failed gender eligibility tests but, having been allowed to compete in Paris, beat Chinese world champion Yang Liu by unanimous decision over five rounds to win welterweight gold.

"I am fully qualified to take part in this competition," said 25-year-old Khelif. "I am a woman like any other woman.

"I was born a woman. I have lived as a woman. I competed as a woman - there is no doubt about that."

Khelif said she had been a victim of "bullying" and that the International Boxing Association (IBA) "hate me and I really don’t know why".

In the arena she was roared to the ring by swathes of Algeria supporters, who waved their green, white and red flags.

Khelif dominated the fight and was showboating at the final bell, dancing while knowing victory was hers, before her and Yang shared a warm embrace.

When the result was confirmed, Yang raised Khelif's arm in the air - a contrast to the scenes after Khelif's opening fight against Italy's Angela Carini - and Khelif was then carried around a jubilant arena on the shoulders of her coach.

Lin Yu-ting, who was also banned last year under the same ruling, will fight Poland's Julia Szeremeta in the featherweight final on Saturday.

Khelif had tears in her ears and was applauded by Lin and bronze medallists Chen Nien-chin of Chinese Taipei and Thailan's Janjaem Suwannapheng as the Algerian national was played.

How did we get here?

Carini abandoned the first-round bout with Khelif after 46 seconds, saying she had to "preserve" her life.

Khelif, whose previous best result was a world silver in 2022, followed that bout with convincing, unanimous-decision victories to reach the final.

This was expected to be a tougher bout - Yang represented a step up in class - but it proved to be another clear victory.

Yang was due to face Khelif in the final of last year's World Championship - a title Wang went on to win - but Khelif was disqualified by the IBA before they met.

The IBA said Khelif and Lin "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women's competition, as set and laid out in the IBA regulations".

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which runs the boxing events at the Olympics, allowed them to compete, raised doubts about the tests and strongly criticised the IBA, insisting Khelif and Lin were "born and raised as women".

President Thomas Bach said earlier on Friday that the IOC "does not like the uncertainty" but suggested there is not a "scientifically solid system" to "identify men and women".

'Stop bullying'

Khelif said she has been criticised by "enemies of success".

"That also gives my success a special taste because of these attacks," she said.

A chaotic news conference held by the IBA last week did little to clear the confusion around Khelif and Lin's bans.

Chief executive Chris Roberts said the pair had "chromosome tests", while president Umar Kremlev appeared to suggest the tests determined the fighters' testosterone levels.

The BBC has been unable to determine what the eligibility tests consisted of.

The Russian-led IBA was stripped of its status as amateur boxing's governing body by the IOC in 2019 because of fears over its governance and regulation.

"They know me very well," Khelif said. "They know what I am capable, how I have developed over the years, but now they are not recognised any more.

"They hate me and I really don’t know why."

Khelif said she had sent a "single message" with her gold - that her "dignity and honour is above everything else".

"My message to the whole world is that they should to commit to Olympic principles and they should avoid bullying," she said.

"This is a message of the Olympic values.

"I hope people will stop bullying and commit to the Olympic charter. We are in the Olympic to perform as athletes. I hope we will not see similar attacks in the future."

What else has been said?

Many of Khelif and Lin's opponents and their coaching teams have been unhappy with their involvement, indicating a level of discontent behind the scenes.

Immediately after her loss to Khelif, Carini said it "was not right", although she later apologised for how she handled the moments after the fight. Her coach said he had advised her not to fight, saying people had told her not to "fight a man".

Before Khelif's second-round fight, opponent Anna Luca Hamori from Hungary said "I don't think it is fair", while the Hungarian Boxing Association protested about Khelif's inclusion. After the fight Hamori wished Khelif good luck.

Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng said after her semi-final defeat: "She is a woman but very strong."

Two of Lin's opponents made 'X' gestures - said to be intended to represent female chromosomes - in the ring after defeat.

Bulgary's Svetlana Kamenova Staneva left the arena saying "no, no, no" and made the 'X' sign.

Before the fight, she said Lin's presence was "not good for boxing", while her boxing federation said it "strongly" opposed Lin and Khelif’s participation at Paris 2024.

After losing to Lin in the semi-finals, Turkey's Esra Yildiz Kahraman made the 'X' sign in the centre of the ring.

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Lin follows Khelif by winning gold amid controversy

An emotional Lin Yu-ting became the second boxer in 24 hours to win women's Olympic gold despite the ongoing row over her gender eligibility.

The Taiwanese beat Polish 20-year-old Julia Szeremeta by unanimous decision to claim the featherweight title, a day after Imane Khelif became the welterweight champion.

Lin and Khelif have been allowed to compete in Paris despite being disqualified from last year’s World Championships after reportedly failing gender eligibility tests.

It was her fourth victory by unanimous decision from four in the competition after the 28-year-old, once again, dominated.

Lin entered the ring to loud cheers once again and there was no sign of protest from Szeremeta, as has come from some of Lin’s previous opponents.

Lin and Szeremeta shared an embrace after the result was confirmed.

The Taiwanese was then visibly emotional during the medal ceremony and afterwards was embraced by bronze medallist Esra Yildiz Kahraman.

After defeat by Lin on Thursday, Turkey's Kahraman made an 'X' gesture to the crowd - said to be intended to represent female chromosomes - but both were smiling after their hug on the medal podium.

Lin’s victory signalled the end of one of the most controversial stories at this Olympics but the debate is likely to continue, and could even impact whether boxing is part of the next Olympics in Los Angeles.

Hours before Lin's fight, a French lawyer had said he is representing Khelif in a legal complaint in France for online harassment over the issue.

Nabil Boudi said Khelif has decided to "begin a new fight, a fight for justice, dignity and honour".

He said she has filed the complaint for "aggravated online harassment".

Asked if she would take similar action, Lin said: "This is something I will discuss with my team. I will decide later what will be the next step."

Lin said she "shut herself off" from social media during the competition to avoid the controversy.

"Some of the noises and news articles... of course I heard some of the information through my coach, but I didn’t pay too much mind to it," she said.

"I was invited by the IOC to take part in the Games, this is what I focused on."

How the controversy has played out

Lin and Khelif were banned last year by the International Boxing Association (IBA) who said the pair "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women's competition, as set and laid out in the IBA regulations".

But the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which runs the boxing events at the Olympics, allowed them to compete, insisting Khelif and Lin were "born and raised as women", and has strongly has criticised the IBA.

The IOC had previously suspended the Russia-led organisation over concerns around governance and regulation and has raised doubts about the tests.

The row erupted after Khelif’s first bout in which Italian Angela Carini abandoned after 46 seconds, saying afterwards she had to “preserve” her life.

As Lin and Khelif progressed with comfortable victories in the ring, a chaotic news conference held by the IBA last week did little to clear the confusion around their bans.

Chief executive Chris Roberts said the pair had "chromosome tests", while president Umar Kremlev appeared to suggest the tests determined the fighters' testosterone levels.

The IOC, which has run the boxing events at the Olympics since suspending the IBA, said competitors were eligible for the women's division if their passports said they were female and has backed the pair throughout.

There has been apparent criticism from Lin and Khelif’s fellow competitors, however.

Like Kahraman, Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva made an 'X' gesture in the ring after defeat although Yang Liu, who Khelif beat on Friday night to secure her victory, raised the Algerian’s arm in celebration after the bell.

Lin and Szeremeta’s bout seemed to be fought in good spirits.

The Pole, a surprise silver medallist who continued her unusual technique of keeping her hands low but was picked off by two-time world champion Lin, made a heart shape with her hands in the direction of the crowd before leaving the ring.

Elsewhere on the final night, Uzbekistan won two more golds to take their total in boxing to five.

Bakhodir Jalolov successfully defended his super-heavyweight title by beating Spain’s Ayoub Ghadfa. Abdumalik Khalokov won the men’s featherweight title by beating Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu of Kazakhstan.

And China’s Li Qian beat Panama’s Atheyna Bylon to take the women’s middleweight crown.

What next for boxing?

In 2021 the IOC issued new guidance for women’s sport which placed the responsibility on individual federations to determine eligibility criteria in their sport.

Since then many sports have banned transgender women from taking part in women's events, such as athletics, aquatics and both rugby codes. Athletics has also brought in specific rules around athletes with differences of sex development (DSD).

Were a body to come in and take over the running of amateur boxing from the IOC it could implement its own rules on eligibility.

Bach left the door open to revisiting the IOC’s own eligibility rules when he spoke to the media on Friday.

“If someone is presenting us a scientifically solid system how to identify men and women, we are the first ones to do it,” he said.

“We do not like this uncertainty, we do not like it for the overall situation, we would be more than pleased to look into it.”

The controversy has overshadowed much of the boxing in Paris, doing little to help the uncertain future around the sport’s place at the Olympics.

The sport has been part of every Olympics since 1920 but there have been doubts around whether it would remain part of the programme for the Los Angeles Games in 2028.

“The IOC will not organise boxing in LA without a reliable partner,” Bach said.

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I support Trannies in female sports because they are a tight slap to the toxic feminism movement.
 
It's very rare someone is born like that most of the ones are basically frauds in pakistan and are blokes.

But either there should be a separate category for these people they should not be competing in women's sports

I don't mind if they compete against males since a lot of them are frauds in first place and are blokes and just using the term as a cover.
 
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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at centre of Olympics gender row, files legal complaint over online harassment

The Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Olympics has filed a legal complaint saying she has been a victim of online harassment.

Imane Khelif's lawyer Nabil Boudi said the complaint was filed with the Paris Prosecutor's Office on Friday.

On Saturday, the gold-winning boxer said: "All that is being said about me on social media is immoral. I want to change the minds of people around the world."

Khelif was crowned an Olympic champion on Friday after comfortably beating China's Yang Liu by unanimous decision to win gold in the women's welterweight final.

She won each of the three rounds on the judges' scorecards and jumped into the arms of her trainer when the decision was announced. He carried the 25-year-old around the arena on his shoulders in celebration.

"For eight years, this has been my dream, and I'm now the Olympic champion and gold medallist," Khelif said through an interpreter.

Asked about the row, she told reporters: "That also gives my success a special taste because of those attacks."

"I'm fully qualified to take part in this competition," she added. "I'm a woman like any other woman. I was born as a woman, I live as a woman, and I am qualified."

Khelif had been under intense scrutiny after a previous fighter quit after 46 seconds, saying it was to protect her health as the Algerian's punches were so strong.

Khelif had said winning gold would be the "best response" to her critics.

Some argued she should not have been allowed to compete due to concerns she might have elevated testosterone that can lead to extra strength and muscle - potentially endangering her opponent.

Khelif and a Taiwanese boxer were banned from the world championships last year, with the International Boxing Association (IBA) saying they failed gender eligibility tests.

However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the decision was "sudden and arbitrary" and the tests were majorly flawed.

It has banned the IBA over governance issues, alleged corruption and ties to Russia.

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Sprinter set to be first transgender Paralympian

Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, having been selected to represent Italy in Para-athletics in Paris.

The 50-year-old sprinter - who competes in the women's T12 classification, for athletes with visual impairments - transitioned in 2019.

Petrillo, who will run in the T12 200m and 400m, told BBC Sport that her participation at the Games would be an "important symbol of inclusion".

But Mariuccia Quilleri, a lawyer and athlete who has represented a number of fellow athletes who oppose Petrillo's participation in women's races, said inclusion had been chosen over fairness and "there is not much more we can do".

Last year, Petrillo won two bronze medals at the World Para Athletics Championships.

The Paralympic Games run from 28 August to 8 September.

Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), told BBC Sport that while Petrillo would be "welcome" in Paris under current World Para Athletics policies, he wants to see the sporting world "unite" on its transgender policies.

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Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, having been selected to represent Italy in Para-athletics in Paris.
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Imane Khelif returns home as trainer reveals star boxer on regime to 'regulate testosterone level'

Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif returned home to a warm welcome as Algerians rallied around her in the face of international scrutiny and misconceptions about her gender.

The gold medallist's arrival came as a sports scientist from France, George Carzola, who works with Khelif, said the Algerian boxer's testosterone levels had been suppressed to allow her to compete against women.

Khelif, along with fellow gold medallists, gymnast Kaylia Nemour and runner Djamel Sedjati, were greeted in Algiers by Minister of Youth and Sports Abderrahmane Hammad and were scheduled to meet President Abdelmadjid Tebboune later this week, according to APS, the nation's public press service.

“It's a dream I had for eight years,” Khelif said of her gold medal performance. “We did our best to represent Algeria.”

Khelif became a top storyline of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games after Italian boxer Angela Carini withdrew 46 seconds into their matchup, wept and refused to shake Khelif's hand, saying she had never been hit so hard by a punch.

Afterward, scrutiny toward Khelif exploded as people — including world leaders and celebrities — questioned her eligibility or falsely claimed she was a man.

Algerians vigorously defended Khelif amid uninformed speculation about her gender, which they interpreted as a byproduct of racism. They loudly made their presence known both in Paris and Algeria, where the gold medal fight was broadcast in public squares throughout the country.

But Cazorla confirmed that the tests Khelif has taken identified "a problem with hormones" and "with chromosomes".

"This poor young girl was devastated, devastated to suddenly discover that she might not be a girl,' he told French magazine Le Point.

"After the 2023 World Championships, where she was disqualified, I took the lead by contacting a renowned endocrinologist from the Parisian University Hospital, Kremlin-Bicêtre, who examined her.

"He confirmed that Imane is indeed a woman, despite her karyotype and her testosterone level. He said: 'There is a problem with her hormones, with her chromosomes, but she is a woman.' That's all that mattered to us.

"We then worked with a doctor based in Algeria to monitor and regulate Imane's testosterone level, which is currently within the female norm. Tests clearly show that all her muscular and other qualities have been diminishing since then.

"Currently, she can be compared on a muscular and biological level to a woman-woman-woman."

Adding to the discourse was Spanish national coach Rafa Lozano, who revealed that pairing Khelif with another female boxer during a retreat ahead of the Olympics was a difficult task.

"They were doing a retreat at Blume and we couldn't put her with anyone,' he told Radio Marca.

'We put her with Jennifer Fernandez and it hurt her. Whoever we put her with was injured."

He said coaches only found a match for her after pairing her up with Jose Quiles, one of Spain's leading male boxers.

"I don't see it as fair,' he said. 'Everyone can think what they want, but that's how I see it."


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Musk & Rowling are clueless about boxing. So should stay away from this subject .

There are real concerns with gender identity in public but this athlete was born a woman & lost to numerous females before. Some have genetic issues inc some men are stronger than others . I doubt she will get money out of this but will be interesting to see .
 
Presenter Woods received death threats after Olympics boxing comment

TV presenter Laura Woods has revealed she received "numerous death threats" online after commenting on an article about the eligibility of Olympic champion boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting.

They each won gold in their respective weight divisions at Paris 2024 amid a heated public debate over whether they should be eligible to compete in the women's division.

Khelif from Algeria and Lin from Chinese Taipei were disqualified from last year's World Championships after reportedly failing gender eligibility tests.

Both won gold in Paris after being cleared to take part by the International Olympic Committee.

On Thursday, football presenter Woods commented "great article" in reply to a post by the Telegraph's Oliver Brown,, external who had written on the subject.

Woods, who works for TNT Sport and was part of ITV Sport's coverage of Euro 2024 in Germany, said she had received dozens of hate-filled messages.

"Since I replied to this article I've had numerous death threats to myself and my unborn child," Woods posted on X, external.

"Questions on my own gender (I'm pregnant so guess that clears that one up) calls for my employers to sack me, threats to my home.

"When there are discrepancies with test results - which could impact the safety of another human being, in an environment that above all else should be fair - questions are quite rightly going to be asked.

"The answers are still unclear, otherwise this topic would be closed."

Khelif and Lin were disqualified by the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA) during last year's World Championships.

The IBA said Khelif and Lin "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women's competition, as set and laid out in the IBA regulations".

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which ran the boxing events at the Olympics, allowed them to compete.

It raised doubts about the tests and strongly criticised the IBA, insisting Khelif and Lin were "born and raised as women".

President Thomas Bach said last week that the IOC "does not like the uncertainty" but suggested there is no "scientifically solid system" to "identify men and women".

Khelif said she had been a victim of "bullying" and that the IBA "hate me and I really don’t know why".

Since winning Olympic gold, the 25-year-old has filed a lawsuit over alleged cyberbullying during the Paris Games, which reportedly names author JK Rowling and X owner Elon Musk.


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ECB update on transgender participation policy

Following an extensive consultation, the ECB Board has agreed an updated policy position in relation to transgender participation in women’s professional cricket.

In reaching its conclusions, the ECB has considered the interaction between fairness, safety and inclusion, all of which are considered important.

The consultation process was extended last year following the decision of the International Cricket Commission (ICC) to move to a model whereby eligibility for women’s international cricket will be determined by whether an individual has undergone male puberty.

Having considered wide-ranging views gathered during the consultation, as well as in consultations conducted during 2023, and the relevant science and medical evidence, the ECB has decided that from 2025 it will adopt the same approach as the ICC for women’s professional domestic cricket. This provides consistency, given that a primary purpose of the top end of the domestic structure is to produce international players.

The detailed policy will now be developed over the coming months, in consultation with stakeholders, and is due to be formally in place in time for the 2025 domestic season. It will apply to Tiers 1 and 2 of the new women’s domestic structure from 2025, as well as The Hundred Women’s competition.

The ECB is striving to become the most inclusive team sport, and recreational cricket and Tier 3 of the domestic structure – which comprises National Counties – will continue to use the existing social model, where individuals are accepted in the gender they identify as. A Disparity Policy is already in place to ensure safety whereby clubs and leagues across the country are able to address the disparity between players participating in a match well above or below their ability where there is a concern that a serious injury could occur, irrespective of their gender.

Considerable time has been taken to reach this policy position. The ECB recognises that transgender participation is a complex area, with many strongly held views, and it is impossible to balance all the considerations. We want everyone to feel included and welcome in our sport, and believe the position reached strikes an appropriate balance by ensuring fairness in the elite game while ensuring inclusivity at a recreational level, with specific safeguards in place to manage disparities and ensure safety.
 
Olympic boxer Imane Khelif takes legal action over male chromosomes claims

Imane Khelif, the boxer who won Olympic gold amid a gender eligibility row, is taking legal action over media reports allegedly detailing her leaked medical records, the International Olympic Committee has said. Reports published in France this week claimed the 25-year-old has XY (male) chromosomes.

The boxer took gold in the women’s welterweight competition at this summer’s Games in Paris in what became a huge controversy after the International Boxing Association said the Algerian had been disqualified from last year’s world championships for failing gender eligibility criteria.

Khelif’s first opponent in Paris, the Italian fighter Angela Carini, signalled she could not continue with their bout 46 seconds in, saying she “had never felt a punch like this”.

Khelif filed a legal complaint with the French authorities over the online abuse and harassment she was subjected to during the Games and the IOC said she was now also taking action over new reports which emerged in France earlier this week. It also said it was “saddened” by the abuse Khelif had received since her appearance in Paris.

“We understand that Imane Khelif has taken legal action against individuals who commented on her situation during the Olympic Games Paris 2024, and is also preparing a lawsuit in response to the latest reporting,” an IOC spokesperson said. “The IOC will not comment while legal action is ongoing, or on media reports about unverified documents whose origin cannot be confirmed.”

The statement pointed out Khelif had been competing in women’s boxing “for many years”, including at the previous Games in Tokyo as well as IBA-sanctioned events.

The IBA was stripped of recognition by the IOC last year over governance failures. That meant it was the IOC which ran – and set the entry criteria for – the Olympic boxing tournament in Paris.

The IOC statement added: “All the athletes who participated in the boxing tournament at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 complied with the competition’s eligibility and entry regulations, together with all the applicable medical regulations enacted by the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit (PBU). As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes were based on their passport details.”

The IOC said the same rules had applied during the qualification period. Its statement concluded: “The IOC is committed to protecting the human rights of all athletes who have taken part in the Olympic Games as per the Olympic Charter, the IOC Code of Ethics and the IOC Strategic Framework on Human Rights. The IOC is saddened by the abuse that Imane Khelif is currently receiving.”

Khelif said after winning gold: “I am fully qualified to take part in this competition – I am a woman. I was born a woman, I’ve lived as a woman and I’ve competed as a woman. There’s no doubt that there are enemies of success and that gives my success a special taste because of these attacks.”

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HS distance runner begs school to remove trans athlete amid safety fears: 'LGBTQ is shoved down our throats'​

A girls' cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, delivered an impassioned plea to her school board on Thursday amid an ongoing controversy over a trans athlete on her team.

The 16-year-old high school student, Kylie Morrow, addressed a recent lawsuit by her teammates alleging that their "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts were likened to a swastika by school officials. The plaintiffs had worn the shirts after a transgender athlete, who hadn’t consistently attended practices or met key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of the girls from her spot, the complaint alleged.

Athletic department school officials allegedly then forced the students to remove or conceal the shirts, claiming they created a "hostile" environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students.

Morrow spoke at a Riverside Unified School District board meeting on Thursday, lambasting her school officials and the notion that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports.

"I'm constantly affected by the actions taken place this season, and I have been around the females, and just my team in general, who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it, because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats!" Morrow said.

"We live in a society where it's almost impossible to speak out on it without facing repercussions."

Morrow said she had even approached the school's athletic director herself about the situation. She went on to passionately defend her teammates who filed the lawsuit amid comparisons of their messaging to swastikas.

"It feels as though that my school and the school district is choosing to support one person instead of the whole team," Morrow said. "To see the athletic director turn around and tell my teammates that their shirts that say, ‘Save girl's sports' be compared to a swastika, that is not okay. These girls feel silenced, they felt silenced, and when they finally did something to speak out against it . . . they were completely stabbed in the back."

Morrow concluded her testimony by expressing how "unsafe" the entire situation has made her feel as a girls' athlete being forced to share a locker room with a biological male.

"It is not okay that I have to be in position, and I have to see a male in booty shorts, and having to see that around me, as a 16-year-old girl I don't see that as a safe environment," Morrow said. "Going into a locker room and seeing males in there, I don't find that safe, I don't find going to the bathroom safe when there's guys in there. It's not okay. I'm a 16-year-old girl!"

The two girls who have filed the lawsuit, known as Kaitlyn and Taylor, previously told Fox News Digital how difficult the situation has been.

"My initial reaction was like, I was really surprised, because it was like, ‘Why is this happening to me?’" Taylor said. "There's a transgender student on the team. Why am I getting displaced when "I've worked so hard and gone to all of the practices, and this student has only attended a few of the practices."

The shock of having their shirts compared to swastikas was unexpected to them.

"It was definitely hard to hear because we're by no means trying to be hateful," Kaitlyn said. "We're just wearing a shirt that expresses what we believe in trying to raise awareness to a situation."

Martin Luther King High School is just one of many public education institutions in California that is currently embroiled in a controversy over a trans athlete on a girls' or women's sports team.

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Judge rejects effort to stop transgender college volleyball player competing

A transgender athlete on the San Jose State University women's volleyball team can continue to compete, a US judge has ruled, denying a request made by other players to keep her off the court.

Monday's ruling by US District Judge S Kato Crews will allow the athlete, who has played all season, to compete in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) women's championship, which is scheduled to start on Wednesday in Las Vegas.

Players for the MWC, including the current co-captain of San Jose State, filed an emergency lawsuit against the league to prevent the athlete from competing.

The case comes amid an intense debate over transgender women's participation in sport.

San Jose State University has not confirmed whether its women's volleyball team includes a transgender player, citing privacy laws. It has not, however, disputed that there is a transgender person on its team, according to Judge Crews' ruling.

The dozen plaintiffs, a group that includes a San Jose co-captain, associate head coach and several other past and present college volleyball players, had requested a last-minute injunction to stop the athlete from competing.

In their 132-page complaint, the plaintiffs argued that the presence of a transgender athlete in the league effectively discriminates against women, by denying them equal opportunities and threatening their safety.

"Men competing on women's teams is incompatible with equal opportunities for women," the lawsuit states, citing Title IX, the federal law barring discrimination in education based on sex. The plaintiffs argue that it prohibits transgender women from participating in women's sports.

But lawyers for the defendants noted a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that found that federal legislation which banned sex discrimination in the workplace covered sexual orientation and gender identity.

In his ruling, Judge Crews cited that decision, saying the equal protections afforded by Title IX apply to transgender athletes.

Judge Crews, a Joe Biden appointee, also said the plaintiffs had hurt their chances by submitting their case only days before the competition. Prohibiting the player from participating in a tournament days before its start "would risk confusion and upend months of planning", he said.

"On balance, the equities favour the MWC's interest in conducting and proceeding with the tournament as planned", he said.

In a statement released on Monday, San Jose State welcomed the ruling, saying it would continue to "reject discrimination in all forms".

"All San Jose State University student-athletes are eligible to participate in their sports under NCAA [National Collegiate Athletics Association] and Mountain West Conference rules."

The judge's ruling was upheld by a federal appeals court on Tuesday.

Last month, four teams forfeited games against San Jose in apparent protest of the transgender athlete. Players for one of those teams, the University of Nevada Reno, said in a statement they would not be playing "in any match that advances injustice against female athletes".

This is the player's fourth season playing college-level volleyball - including two for San Jose State - though her participation in previous years did not make headlines. All four of the teams that cancelled games this year have played against the transgender player in previous years, according to a New York Times' review of past records.

The NCAA's rules on transgender athletes vary by sport, and depend on each sport's governing body.

USA Volleyball says transgender women must take "the necessary steps to transition to their adopted gender", and submit testosterone levels before competing. For trans women, testosterone levels "must not exceed the upper limit of the normal female reference range for their age group".

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LPGA updates policy on transgender women golfers

Transgender women who have gone through male puberty will not be allowed to compete on leading women's golf tours from next year.

Updated rules on gender policy will also apply to United States Golf Association events including the US Women's Open and will prevent Scottish-born American Hailey Davidson from seeking membership of the LPGA Tour.

The 31-year-old, who transitioned after playing men's college golf in the United States, failed to qualify for a card on the leading women's tour when finishing 95th at the second stage of LPGA Q School in October.

Davidson's participation prompted protests, with 275 female players signing a letter asking for changes to policies which allowed people recorded male at birth to compete in women's events.

Previously, the LPGA allowed players to compete if they had undergone gender-affirming surgery after puberty and met hormone therapy requirements.

But these rules have now been altered.

"The LPGA has updated its gender policy for competition eligibility, effective starting with the 2025 season," the LPGA said in a statement.

"The policy - informed by a working group of top experts in medicine, science, sport physiology, golf performance and gender policy law - was developed with input from a broad array of stakeholders and prioritises the competitive integrity of women's professional tournaments and elite amateur competitions.

"This working group has advised that the effects of male puberty confer competitive advantages in golf performance compared to players who have not undergone male puberty."

The new policy applies to the LPGA Tour, its feeder Epson Tour where Davidson would have been eligible to play, plus the Ladies European Tour and all other elite LPGA events.

The statement added that players recorded as male at birth and who have gone through male puberty "are not eligible to compete in the aforementioned events".

The R&A, which governs golf's rules outside the United States and Mexico, is expected to adopt the same policy from 1 January next year for its women's championships, including the AIG Women's Open.

Davidson played on the men's team at Wilmington University in Delaware before transferring to the men's team at Christopher Newport in Virginia.

Denmark's Mianne Bagger became the first transgender golfer to play a professional event when competing in the 2004 Women's Australian Open.

But the now 57-year-old subsequently became a critic of relaxed rules governing transgender participation in women's sport.

Announcing the changed rule for 2025, the outgoing commissioner of the LPGA, Mollie Marcoux Samaan, said: "Our policy is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach.

"The policy represents our continued commitment to ensuring that all feel welcome within our organisation, while preserving the fairness and competitive equity of our elite competitions."

Responding to the change on Instagram, Davidson said: "Can't say I didn't see this coming.

"Banned from the Epson and the LPGA. All the silence and people wanting to stay 'neutral' thanks for absolutely nothing. This happened because of all your silence."

In updating its policy, the LPGA follows other governing bodies from sports including swimming and athletics in banning transgender women from competing in the female category at elite level if they have gone through male puberty.

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LTA bans transgender women from some domestic competitions​


Transgender women will no longer be allowed to play in some female domestic tennis and padel tournaments in Britain, in changes to the Lawn Tennis Association's rules.

The LTA is updating its transgender and non-binary participation policy, but this will not affect entry into Wimbledon or ITF, WTA or ATP tournaments staged in the UK.

The policy applies solely to British domestic inter-club competitions. The rules for tour events will continue to be set by the relevant governing body.

From 25 January, transgender women, who were recorded male at birth, will not be eligible to compete in female events in higher graded competitions, which usually involve individuals taking on players from another club or county.

The rules do not extend to events taking place between players from just one venue - such as a club championship or a weekend social tournament. Venues will still be able to decide their own policy in these circumstances.

In updating the policy, the LTA says it has had to balance "two potentially conflicting responsibilities: the need to ensure "competition in our sport is fair and a responsibility to make sure tennis is welcoming and inclusive for everyone."

It also says it appreciates the "diversity of opinion around this matter" and will keep the policy under review in the years ahead.

The current WTA Gender Participation Policy, based on 2015 guidance, is under review in light of the International Olympic Committee's transgender eligibility framework published in 2021.

At the moment, the WTA permits transgender women to participate if they have declared their gender as female for a minimum of four years, have lowered testosterone levels and agree to testing procedures.

The LPGA Golf Tour recently decided that transgender women who have gone through male puberty will no longer be allowed to compete on leading golf tours. That followed the England and Wales Cricket Board's decision last month to say that any player who has gone through male puberty will be ineligible from the top two tiers of the women's game from 2025.

Other sports governing bodies have also changed their policies in recent years, including athletics, cycling and swimming to ban transgender athletes from competing in elite women's competitions.

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R&A updates policy on transgender women golfers

Transgender women who have gone through male puberty will not be allowed to compete in women's golf tournaments organised by the R&A from the start of 2025.

The R&A, golf's St Andrews-based governing body, has updated its rules on gender policy following an "extensive consultation" with medical and scientific experts.

It comes after the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and United States Golf Association (USGA) updated their gender policies this month to exclude players who have gone through male puberty from women's events.

"The evidence shows that golf is a gender-affected sport in which male puberty confers a performance advantage," the R&A said.

The R&A, which governs golf's rules outside the United States and Mexico, oversees women's championships including the Women's Open.

Chief executive Martin Slumbers said the R&A had a "duty to ensure that in our elite competitions players can compete fairly and equally".

"We have carefully reviewed the best available medical and scientific advice relating to participation in elite and scratch-level golf competitions by transgender athletes and decided that updating our entry conditions to preserve fairness in our female professional and elite amateur championships is the right thing to do," Slumbers said.

Governing bodies from sports including swimming and athletics have already banned transgender women from competing in the female category at elite level if they have gone through male puberty.


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Trump signs executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, the latest in a slew of moves rolling back the rights of trans people.

The order establishes stricter mandates on sports and gender policy, directing federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, to interpret federal Title IX rules as the prohibition of transgender girls and women from participating in any female sports categories.

The order is titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”.

The order, which mandates immediate enforcement, directs state attorneys general to identify best practices for enforcement.

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said on Wednesday. The timing of the order coincided with National Girls and Women in Sports Day.

The order, which is likely to face legal challenges, calls for “immediate enforcement” nationwide. It threatens to cut off federal funding for any school that allows trans women or girls to compete in female-designated sporting competitions.

The order would affect only a small number of athletes. The president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association told a Senate panel in December he was aware of fewer than 10 trans athletes among the 520,000 competing at 1,100 member schools.

Athlete Ally, a non-profit athletic advocacy group, released a statement in response to the order, saying: “Our hearts break for the trans youth who will no longer be able to know the joy of playing sports as their full and authentic selves.

“We’ve known this day was likely to occur for a long time, as this administration continues to pursue simple solutions to complex issues, often resulting in animus towards the most marginalized communities in our country.”

This latest attack on trans rights follows a sequence of controversial mandates by the Trump administration. During his first day in office, Trump signed an order calling for the federal government to define sex as “only male or female” based on reproductive cells and for it to be reflected on all official documents such as passports.

Last week, he signed an executive order prohibiting gender transition for people under the age of 19. It included gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers, the use of hormones such as estrogen or testosterone, and surgical procedures.

Trump has also taken aim at Biden’s orders to combat gender discrimination. Last month, Trump signed an order called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” that instructs the federal government to remove “all radical gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms”.

The White House expects all sports bodies such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to change their rules in accordance with the latest order.

“We’re a national governing body and we follow federal law,” the NCAA president, Charlie Baker, told Republican senators at a hearing in December. “Clarity on this issue at the federal level would be very helpful.”

The trans community has already seen the effects of the barrage of attacks on their rights. Following Trump’s orders, several hospitals across the US stopped providing care for transgender youth.

Prisons have likewise isolated transgender women in custody, telling them that they will be transferred to men’s prisons after losing access to gender-affirming medical treatments.

Olivia Hunt, of the group Advocates for Trans Equality, told Britain’s Sky News: “For the past two weeks the trans community across the United States has seen unending attacks from this administration on all aspects of our rights and daily lives. And seeing this attack, like the others, knowing it’s going to be very long on hostile rhetoric and inflammatory language and very short on clear, actionable policies, it’s always very concerning … especially when it’s targeted at a relatively small and already marginalized community across the country.”

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Trump signs executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, the latest in a slew of moves rolling back the rights of trans people.

The order establishes stricter mandates on sports and gender policy, directing federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, to interpret federal Title IX rules as the prohibition of transgender girls and women from participating in any female sports categories.

The order is titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”.

The order, which mandates immediate enforcement, directs state attorneys general to identify best practices for enforcement.

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said on Wednesday. The timing of the order coincided with National Girls and Women in Sports Day.

The order, which is likely to face legal challenges, calls for “immediate enforcement” nationwide. It threatens to cut off federal funding for any school that allows trans women or girls to compete in female-designated sporting competitions.

The order would affect only a small number of athletes. The president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association told a Senate panel in December he was aware of fewer than 10 trans athletes among the 520,000 competing at 1,100 member schools.

Athlete Ally, a non-profit athletic advocacy group, released a statement in response to the order, saying: “Our hearts break for the trans youth who will no longer be able to know the joy of playing sports as their full and authentic selves.

“We’ve known this day was likely to occur for a long time, as this administration continues to pursue simple solutions to complex issues, often resulting in animus towards the most marginalized communities in our country.”

This latest attack on trans rights follows a sequence of controversial mandates by the Trump administration. During his first day in office, Trump signed an order calling for the federal government to define sex as “only male or female” based on reproductive cells and for it to be reflected on all official documents such as passports.

Last week, he signed an executive order prohibiting gender transition for people under the age of 19. It included gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers, the use of hormones such as estrogen or testosterone, and surgical procedures.

Trump has also taken aim at Biden’s orders to combat gender discrimination. Last month, Trump signed an order called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” that instructs the federal government to remove “all radical gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms”.

The White House expects all sports bodies such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to change their rules in accordance with the latest order.

“We’re a national governing body and we follow federal law,” the NCAA president, Charlie Baker, told Republican senators at a hearing in December. “Clarity on this issue at the federal level would be very helpful.”

The trans community has already seen the effects of the barrage of attacks on their rights. Following Trump’s orders, several hospitals across the US stopped providing care for transgender youth.

Prisons have likewise isolated transgender women in custody, telling them that they will be transferred to men’s prisons after losing access to gender-affirming medical treatments.

Olivia Hunt, of the group Advocates for Trans Equality, told Britain’s Sky News: “For the past two weeks the trans community across the United States has seen unending attacks from this administration on all aspects of our rights and daily lives. And seeing this attack, like the others, knowing it’s going to be very long on hostile rhetoric and inflammatory language and very short on clear, actionable policies, it’s always very concerning … especially when it’s targeted at a relatively small and already marginalized community across the country.”

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NCAA bans transgender athletes from women’s sports following Trump’s executive order

The NCAA has officially changed its gender eligibility rules, banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports.

The announcement comes just one day after President Donald Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order.

“A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team,” the NCAA’s updated policy states. However, biological females will still be allowed to compete on men’s teams.

Previously, the NCAA permitted transgender women to compete in women’s sports after undergoing at least one year of testosterone suppression. The new policy eliminates that provision, citing the need for a “clear, national standard.”

NCAA President Charlie Baker acknowledged Trump’s order, stating that the organization’s Board of Governors had reviewed it and taken necessary steps to align with the directive. “We strongly believe clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards serve student-athletes better than conflicting state laws,” Baker said.

The NCAA has faced increasing legal challenges over transgender participation in women’s sports. Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines and other female athletes are currently suing the organization, alleging unfair competition and uncomfortable locker room situations. Meanwhile, Trump’s Department of Education has launched investigations into potential Title IX violations at various institutions, including UPenn and San Jose State University.

A recent New York Times/Ipsos poll revealed that 79% of Americans, including 67% of Democrats, oppose transgender women competing in female sports. The NCAA’s new policy solidifies this stance, ensuring future competitions align with biological sex-based categories.


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'I'm not going anywhere' - Khelif on legal action

Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif says she's "not going anywhere" after legal action was launched against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing her to compete.

On Monday, the International Boxing Association (IBA) said it had filed a complaint with the Swiss Attorney General citing safety concerns over gender eligibility.

Khelif, who competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and who is also a World Championship silver medallist, has always insisted she is eligible for the women's competition.

In a rare statement on social media, Khelif said the IBA had "again made baseless accusations that are false and offensive".

"For two years, I have taken the high road while my name and image have been used, unauthorised, to further personal and political agendas through the spreading and dissemination of baseless lies and misinformation," she added.

"But silence is no longer an option.

"I am not going anywhere. I will fight in the ring, I will fight in the courts and I will fight in the public eye until the truth is undeniable."

The Algerian, 25, won women's welterweight gold in Paris at the Paris Olympics, a year after being disqualified from the World Championships for reportedly failing gender eligibility tests.

The tests were conducted by the Russian-led IBA, who were later stripped of their world governing body status by the IOC over integrity and governance issues.

At the time the IBA said Khelif "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in women's competition".

The IOC questioned the legitimacy and credibility of the IBA's tests, saying they could not be relied upon.

The IOC was responsible for running the boxing competition at the Paris Olympics.

Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, who was also banned by the IBA, were both cleared to compete at the Olympics by the IOC.

The pair's gold medals overshadowed boxing at Paris and attracted scrutiny and criticism from around the world.

Khelif said her team was now reviewing the situation and would take legal action to protect her rights.

The IOC has said the IBA statement was "just another example of the IBA's campaign against the IOC".

Switzerland's Attorney General's office confirmed it had received the IBA's complaint.

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Olympic boxing gender row a result of Russian fake news, says IOC chief

A gender row involving two boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Thomas Bach, said on Saturday.

Bach, who is stepping down in June after 12 years in charge of the biggest job in world sports, said the IOC had had to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games.

The boxing competition in Paris was run by the IOC after it stripped the International Boxing Association (IBA) of recognition last year over its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance. But the IBA, run by Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman with close links to the Kremlin, criticised the IOC during the Games for allowing Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei, who had been banned by the IBA as a result of a chromosome test a year earlier, to compete.

A bitter war of words ensued between the two organisations and dominated the headlines. “I would not consider this a real crisis because all this discussion is based on a fake news campaign coming from Russia,” said Bach, speaking in Pylos, the southern Greek seaside resort where his successor will be elected on Thursday. “This was part of the many, many fake news campaigns we had to face from Russia before Paris and after Paris.”

Several such campaigns happened before Paris, including what the IOC said at the time were repeated hacking attempts. Russian athletes competed as neutrals in Paris after the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended for conducting Olympic elections in Ukrainian territories occupied following the Russian invasion in 2022.

Bach said the dispute over the boxers would have been a non-issue were it not for the IBA, given the two had competed for years, including at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, with no problems. “It has nothing to do with the reality,” Bach said. “These two female focuses were born as women, they were raised as women, they have been competing as women, they have been winning and losing as every other person.”

The IOC does not have a universal rule on the participation of transgender athletes or athletes with differences of sexual development, with each federation drawing up its own regulations.

Bach also said he had no concerns about the preparation of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, calling the US president, Donald Trump, a strong supporter and promoter of the project. “Let the organising committee … continue to work with President Trump and his administration because they have established very good relations,” Bach said when asked what his advice to his successor would be regarding the LA Olympics and Trump. “The IOC should have confidence in their American partners and friends, and confidence that President Trump from the beginning was a strong supporter and promoter of the Olympic Games.”

Bach added that boxing, which had not been included in the initial LA 2028 programme due to the problems with the IBA, could soon get positive news about its inclusion. In February, the IOC provisionally recognised World Boxing as the new global body, paving the way for the sport’s inclusion in Los Angeles.

“I hope it will mean in very short term a very positive signal,” Bach said of the provisional recognition of World Boxing. “I hope very much during these days here in Greece we can come to a decision.”

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Out of over 500k atheletes in America participating at collegiate level there are fewer than 10 who are transgender. In entire country at various level there are around 20 or so. In a population of 340 million.

So why did this become such a big issue? Over all the other issues which actually affect millions of american life every single day? Because right wing bigots always cause false moral panic to ensure low IQ bigots vote for them.

They did the same with women voting rights. Then the black people were coming for you. Then it was the gay panic with gays coming for your kids. Then the satanic panic. How the trans panic.

It helps them keep away from real issues like taxation of the rich, unions, healthcare etc which people actually need.

Once you cause moral panic among stupid people they will forget all real issues and vote for your blindly.
 
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Out of over 500k atheletes in America participating at collegiate level there are fewer than 10 who are transgender. In entire country at various level there are around 20 or so. In a population of 340 million.

So why did this become such a big issue? Over all the other issues which actually affect millions of american life every single day? Because right wing bigots always cause false moral panic to ensure low IQ bigots vote for them.

They did the same with women voting rights. Then the black people were coming for you. Then it was the gay panic with gays coming for your kids. Then the satanic panic. How the trans panic.

It helps them keep away from real issues like taxation of the rich, unions, healthcare etc which people actually need.

Once you cause moral panic among stupid people they will forget all real issues and vote for your blindly.
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Sports trophies and medals are not about the average but being the best in a class. This is a stupid red herring talking about average of how many transgender athletes are there in women sports. Its cheating as per the rules, that it.
Its about the extra edge, if you are talking about averages, not every steroid drug abuser becomes a world champion, Why does it become such a big issue.

Bowing down to this stupid trans agenda is where the liberal progressive ideology lost its footing against conservative and racist agenda.
 
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Sports trophies and medals are not about the average but being the best in a class. This is a stupid red herring talking about average of how many transgender athletes are there in women sports. Its cheating as per the rules, that it.
Its about the extra edge, if you are talking about averages, not every steroid drug abuser becomes a world champion, Why does it become such a big issue.

Bowing down to this stupid trans agenda is where the liberal progressive ideology lost its footing against conservative and racist agenda.
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So how many trans people have succeeded in sports? What agenda? The moral panic created by bigots?

And how many trans are there 100% matters when 10 people are participating and only at collegiate level and non of them are even winning anything it's not something anyone needs to even raise such an issue about

There are a million million things affecting human being.

It's a stupid panic created by bigots which low iq people have swallowed. Which is a hallmark of those who support Trump.
 
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Identity crisis is the identity of some people and its no longer termed as a mental disorder as per DSM 5. So we should be accepting of such people however hard it might feel. :viru

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Interesting discussion and thanks for the food for thought. Identity crisis is a big one but this can sometimes mimic narcissism and a lack of nuance. We need to be more understanding and inclusive.
 
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Interesting discussion and thanks for the food for thought. Identity crisis is a big one but this can sometimes mimic narcissism and a lack of nuance. We need to be more understanding and inclusive.
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Idiots jump into the topic and derail the discussion for their own personal attacks . Attaching the screenshot again.
@mods: Please dont delete genuine posts perfectly on topic just because someone wants to derail every little discussion.

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I believe it is a very important discussion in our part of the world. I once knew a transgender person who had an identity crisis as well. This came from a place or feeling of something being lacking. This led to this person having trouble with complexity and lacking nuance. Some of my friends were a bit too quick to call this person dumb or lacking insight but this came from this identity crisis you mention. It is a documented scientific phenomenon. I will try to dig up the podcast if I can.
 
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I believe it is a very important discussion in our part of the world. I once knew a transgender person who had an identity crisis as well. This came from a place or feeling of something being lacking. This led to this person having trouble with complexity and lacking nuance. Some of my friends were a bit too quick to call this person dumb or lacking insight but this came from this identity crisis you mention. It is a documented scientific phenomenon. I will try to dig up the podcast if I can.
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Its a tough life but on the topic trans athletes, I think they should be competing in males group only or world should have a separate category for trans. Male and female are 95% or even more of the population. Upsetting such a large chunk of established ordered to forcefully accommodate such a tiny fraction is not feasible.
Being a female pro-athlete is not a basic right.
 
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Its a tough life but on the topic trans athletes, I think they should be competing in males group only or world should have a separate category for trans. Male and female are 95% or even more of the population. Upsetting such a large chunk of established ordered to forcefully accommodate such a tiny fraction is not feasible.
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yes trans athletes should compete with men. We need to be inclusive otherwise though. They should be allowed to post on forums, media, get social benefits and not be questioned and attacked just because they were born that way.
 
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yes trans athletes should compete with men. We need to be inclusive otherwise though. They should be allowed to post on forums, media, get social benefits and not be questioned and attacked just because they were born that way.
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Absolutely!!! Free speech is a basic human right :viru but sports gets into a tricky territory.
 
The issue atleast here in the US is that trans athletes want to compete in women's events. That is utterly ridiculous. It not about rights etc etc, its about fairness. They have an advantage over females physically and strength wise. Plus trans people in states like California can enter girls locker rooms and thats been a huge issue. And rightly so. Imagine you are a mom with your little daughter in a girls lockers rooms and then a trans walks in parading his stuff and not completely attired. No wonder the Democrats won California by a reduced margin than before. There is a limit to this nonsense with no common sense approach.
 
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The issue atleast here in the US is that trans athletes want to compete in women's events. That is utterly ridiculous. It not about rights etc etc, its about fairness. They have an advantage over females physically and strength wise. Plus trans people in states like California can enter girls locker rooms and thats been a huge issue. And rightly so. Imagine you are a mom with your little daughter in a girls lockers rooms and then a trans walks in parading his stuff and not completely attired. No wonder the Democrats won California by a reduced margin than before. There is a limit to this nonsense with no common sense approach.
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I agree in principle here. I knew a transgender person, great person but would never want them anywhere near the change room :viru I don't say they have bad intentions just something I can't support however I am all for continuing social benefits to them :inti
 
Algerian boxer Khelif says she’s not intimidated by Trump and targets second Olympic gold in LA

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says that President Donald Trump’s stance on gender in sports “does not intimidate” her and plans to defend her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Khelif, who found herself in the middle of a bitter divide about gender eligibility during the Paris Olympics, was asked about Trump’s policies during an interview with British broadcaster ITV scheduled to be aired on Wednesday.

“I will give you a straightforward answer: the U.S. president issued a decision related to transgender policies in America. I am not transgender. This does not concern me, and it does not intimidate me. That is my response,” Khelif said in excerpts of the interview that were released ahead of the broadcast.

Khelif then interrupted a question about her dream of repeating gold at the next Summer Games in 2028: “Second gold medal, of course,” she said. “In America, Los Angeles.”

Last month, Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.

On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked enforcement of another Trump executive order to ban transgender people from military service.

Trump has repeatedly labeled Khelif and fellow female boxing gold medalist Lin Yu-ting as men, even though the International Olympic Committee has consistently defended both boxers.

“These two women boxers have been born as women, they have been raised as women, they have competed as women and nobody ever claimed even that they are transgender,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

Both had been disqualified from the 2023 world championships run by the Russian-backed International Boxing Association, which said they failed eligibility tests.

“What happened there was a Russian-led misinformation campaign which then distorted the truth, the facts, and now we have this unfortunate situation that these two athletes are considered to be transgender. But. They. Are. Not,” Bach addded.

Khelif advanced through the Olympic Games amid international scrutiny and speculation about her sex.

“I see myself as a girl, just like any other girl. I was born a girl, raised as a girl, and have lived my entire life as one,” Khelif told ITV. “I have competed in many tournaments, including the Tokyo Olympics and other major competitions, as well as four World Championships. All of these took place before I started winning and earning titles. But once I began achieving success, the campaigns against me started.”

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Algerian boxer Khelif says she’s not intimidated by Trump and targets second Olympic gold in LA

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says that President Donald Trump’s stance on gender in sports “does not intimidate” her and plans to defend her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Khelif, who found herself in the middle of a bitter divide about gender eligibility during the Paris Olympics, was asked about Trump’s policies during an interview with British broadcaster ITV scheduled to be aired on Wednesday.

“I will give you a straightforward answer: the U.S. president issued a decision related to transgender policies in America. I am not transgender. This does not concern me, and it does not intimidate me. That is my response,” Khelif said in excerpts of the interview that were released ahead of the broadcast.

Khelif then interrupted a question about her dream of repeating gold at the next Summer Games in 2028: “Second gold medal, of course,” she said. “In America, Los Angeles.”

Last month, Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.

On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked enforcement of another Trump executive order to ban transgender people from military service.

Trump has repeatedly labeled Khelif and fellow female boxing gold medalist Lin Yu-ting as men, even though the International Olympic Committee has consistently defended both boxers.

“These two women boxers have been born as women, they have been raised as women, they have competed as women and nobody ever claimed even that they are transgender,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

Both had been disqualified from the 2023 world championships run by the Russian-backed International Boxing Association, which said they failed eligibility tests.

“What happened there was a Russian-led misinformation campaign which then distorted the truth, the facts, and now we have this unfortunate situation that these two athletes are considered to be transgender. But. They. Are. Not,” Bach addded.

Khelif advanced through the Olympic Games amid international scrutiny and speculation about her sex.

“I see myself as a girl, just like any other girl. I was born a girl, raised as a girl, and have lived my entire life as one,” Khelif told ITV. “I have competed in many tournaments, including the Tokyo Olympics and other major competitions, as well as four World Championships. All of these took place before I started winning and earning titles. But once I began achieving success, the campaigns against me started.”

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No offence to Khelif but to me she looks a lot like Sehwag :viru
 
World Athletics approves gender eligibility test

World Athletics has approved the introduction of a one-time genetic test for elite athletes who wish to compete in the women's category at international events.

The "pre-clearance requirement" is among several recommendations that have been approved at the World Athletics Council meeting to tighten regulations concerning the eligibility of transgender and difference of sex development (DSD) athletes.

The test for the SRY gene, which is "almost always on the male Y chromosome" and "is used as a highly accurate proxy for biological sex", would need to be taken just once by an athlete during their career.

A cheek swab test would be used to look for the SRY gene, while a dried blood spot test could also be used to determine an athlete's testosterone levels - in addition to the presence of the SRY gene.

Lord Coe, the governing body's president, said the decision was further evidence that World Athletics would "doggedly" protect the female category.

In March 2023, World Athletics banned transgender athletes who had gone through male puberty from competing in the female category in international competition.

Last month, however, a World Athletics working group recommended a revision to eligibility regulations for male-to-female trans athletes, on the basis of fresh evidence which it said shows there is a "significant performance gap before the onset of puberty".

The current rules for DSD athletes, meanwhile, require them to reduce their testosterone levels below 2.5 nmol/L for at least six months to compete in any female category event internationally.

World Athletics will now merge regulations for both DSD and transgender athletes after the working group said new evidence showed testosterone suppression "can only ever partly mitigate the overall male advantage in the sport of athletics".

World Athletics said the pre-clearance SRY test provider, process and timeline will be agreed "over the next few weeks".

Coe made "protecting" eligibility of the women's category a key component of his bid to be elected International Olympic Committee president.

However, Coe finished third in the IOC election earlier this month as Kirsty Coventry won 49 of the 97 available votes to become the first female and African president.

Coe said on Tuesday: "It's important to do it because it maintains everything that we've been talking about, and particularly recently, about not just talking about the integrity of female women's sport, but actually guaranteeing it.

"We feel this is a really important way of providing confidence and maintaining that absolute focus on the integrity of competition."


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Snooker to review transgender policy

Snooker's governing body will review its transgender inclusion policy following the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex under equalities law.

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) said in a statement that its position "has always been that its policy would be subject to immediate review should there be a change in circumstances".

Trans women can currently compete in women's snooker events provided their testosterone levels have remained below a certain level for a period of 12 months before competing.

Judges at the country's highest court last week determined that the "concept of sex is binary" and a person with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) in the female gender "does not come within the definition of a woman".


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Two opposing views on football's transgender ban

The English Football Association announced on Thursday that transgender women will no longer be able to play in women's football in England from 1 June.

Following the UK Supreme Court's ruling on 15 April that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, the FA now says only those born biologically female will be permitted to play in women's football.

The Scottish FA has also announced it is banning transgender women, while sources have told BBC Sport that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is also expected to ban transgender women from the women's game.

BBC Sport spoke to Natalie Washington, campaign lead for Football v Transphobia, and former swimmer and campaigner Sharron Davies to get their views on the ban.


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The ECB is today announcing a change to its regulations regarding eligibility for transgender players in women’s and girls’ cricket. This is based on the updated legal position following the recent Supreme Court ruling.

With immediate effect, only those whose biological sex is female will be eligible to play in women’s cricket and girls’ cricket matches. Transgender women and girls can continue playing in open and mixed cricket.

Our regulations for recreational cricket have always aimed at ensuring that cricket remains as inclusive a sport as possible. These included measures to manage disparities, irrespective of someone’s gender, and safeguard the enjoyment of all players. However, given the new advice received about the impact of the Supreme Court ruling, we believe the changes announced today are necessary.

We acknowledge that this decision will have a significant impact on transgender women and girls. We will work with Recreational Cricket Boards to support people impacted by this change in our regulations.

We await updated guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and will study this carefully.

We maintain that abuse or discrimination has no place in our sport and are committed to ensuring that cricket is played in a spirit of respect and inclusivity.
 
Finally some common sense.

It' was all getting to much energy and attention if you ask me. It's quite simple really.

Men = Men Sports
Women = women sports

Anything else I Dunno create your own category?
Or try the Paralympics/ disabled categories if you've lost that particular body part as technically you will be eligible right?
 
FA chief Bullingham insists transgender ban ‘not an ideological judgment’

Mark Bullingham, the chief executive of the Football Association, has written to London grassroots football club Goal Diggers FC explaining the governing body’s decision to ban transgender women from women’s football “was not an ideological judgment, but a difficult decision” based on legal advice that a “change in policy was necessary” following the supreme court ruling which said the term “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman.

Representatives of Goal Diggers undertook a 12-mile walk from their training pitches in Haggerston Park to Wembley Stadium to deliver their open letter to the FA. In it they demanded a reversal of the ban on transgender women from women’s football and described the FA’s decision as a “pitiful and weak response” to the supreme court’s ruling. Bullingham said the FA understands “how difficult this decision will be for people who want to play football in the gender by which they identify, and we are aware of the significant impact this will have on them”, added it “also understands that it will have repercussions for Goal Diggers FC – your players, coaches, volunteers and fans – who all play an important role in championing diversity in football.”

Bullingham said that the FA would “like to reassure you that we are committed to working with every registered transgender player in our network to support them in staying involved in football and we will continue to have those conversations”. However, Goal Diggers player Becky Taylor-Gill said the FA needs to stand more firmly with transgender women. “Their motto is football for all. Put your money where your mouth is,” said Taylor-Gill. “Put your lawyers in the situation where they can fight for football to be for all.

“We’ve created a safe space for trans women in our women’s team that we really cherish and they should feel welcomed. This decision will just push more trans women out of football at a time when that’s what they really need.”

Outside the Haggerston Park football pitches where Goal Diggers train, members of the not-for-profit club, which was founded to make football more available and accessible to all women and non-binary people, signed flags and set off flares alongside supporters before setting off on their walk. It had initially been set up as a sponsored walk by Goal Diggers members to fundraise for the club and was to conclude with a letter opposing the FA’s existing grassroots transgender women’s policy, which will be overtaken by the ban when it comes into effect on 1 June.

However, after the supreme court ruling and subsequent FA ban, the club decided to open the walk up to others, with members of other clubs and supporters of the campaign joining the walk to endorse the message in the letter that: “Our governing body should not be adding more barriers to transgender people to be welcomed into the beautiful game.”

Taylor-Gill said the decision of the FA “goes completely against what Goal Diggers stand for and what the grassroots women’s football community stands for” adding: “We’ve had to fight so much just to be able to play. We, as a club, took us years to find a regular space for us to play football. We were playing football on sandy astro and in kids playgrounds at schools because men’s teams had block bookings for all of the pitches.

“The FA have a history of banning women from football. In 1921 they banned women from playing on FA-affiliated pitches and they’re doing the same now, but they’re just taking aim at our transgender teammates who are already an incredibly vulnerable part of society as things stand in the UK. All they want to do is play football and at a time when it’s really important that they have that community because of wider transphobia in society, it’s being taken away from them. That’s really, really sad.”

Sammy Rees, a trans women player for Goal Diggers, described feeling “hurt, annoyed and scared” following the ban. “A lot of things that I never worried about in the past are now at the forefront of my mind,” she said. “I’m stressed, not just about the FA decision but the whole supreme court ruling has changed how I view my life. It’s changed how I interact with people, it’s made me more conscious of how I present to other people and how people view me, which is something I never really struggled with before.”

Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns for Sex Matters, which describes itself as an organisation that campaigns for clarity about biological sex in law and life, said of the FA decision: “The FA has not banned anyone from football. It has restated what it always knew: that women need their own teams and leagues. Playing mixed-sex football should be a choice, not something forced on women and girls because trans-identifying male players want to join women’s teams.”

Rees added: “As a trans woman that’s played men’s football, as much as the people that I played with were lovely and were accepting, I was incredibly uncomfortable and I know other trans people who have felt similarly. It’s a completely different environment. When I come into women’s football I’m met with nothing but love, guidance, acceptance and most importantly, respect.”

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Khelif required to take sex test for World Boxing fights

Olympic champion Imane Khelif will not be allowed to fight in the female category at World Boxing competitions until she undergoes a mandatory sex test.

Khelif, 26, won women's welterweight gold at the Paris Olympics last year amid a row over gender eligibility.

Algeria's Khelif, along with Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships by previous world governing body the International Boxing Association (IBA) for allegedly failing gender eligibility tests.

Khelif was cleared to compete in Paris by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which stripped the IBA of its status as the sport's amateur world governing body in June 2023 over concerns over how it was run.

The IOC said competitors were eligible for the women's division in Paris if their passports said they were female.

On Friday, World Boxing said that "all athletes over the age of 18" who wish to participate in competitions it owns or sanctions will "need to undergo a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) genetic test to determine their sex at birth and their eligibility to compete".

Khelif had been set to make a competitive comeback at the Eindhoven Box Cup from 5-10 June.

Khelif has always competed in the women's division and there is no suggestion she identifies as anything other than a woman.

Some reports took the IBA stating that Khelif has XY chromosomes to speculate she might have differences of sexual development (DSD) like runner Caster Semenya.

However, the BBC has not been able to confirm whether this is or is not the case.

The IOC made it clear last year this is "not a transgender case".

What has World Boxing said?

World Boxing was granted provisional recognition as the sport's international governing federation by the IOC in February 2025.

"The introduction of mandatory testing will be part of a new policy on 'sex, age and weight' to ensure the safety of all participants and deliver a competitive level playing field for men and women," the World Boxing statement said.

"The policy is in the final stages of development and has been crafted by a specially convened working group of the World Boxing medical and anti-doping committee, which has examined data and medical evidence from an extensive range of sources and consulted widely with other sports and experts across the world."

The statement added that World Boxing "respects the dignity of all individuals" and its overriding priority was "to ensure safety and competitive fairness to all athletes".

"To do this, it is essential that strict categories, determined by sex are maintained and enforced, and means that World Boxing will only operate competitions for athletes categorised as male or female," it said.

"This decision reflects concerns over the safety and wellbeing of all boxers, including Imane Khelif, and aims to protect the mental and physical health of all participants."

In its statement, World Boxing published a letter it had sent to both Khelif and the Algerian Boxing Federation.

In the letter World Boxing said the new eligibility rules were developed "with the express purpose of safeguarding athletes in combat sports" given the "physical risks associated with Olympic-style boxing".

It also said in the letter that in "the event the athlete's sex certification is challenged by the athlete's federation or by World Boxing" the athlete shall be "ineligible to compete until the dispute is resolved".

The Algerian Boxing Federation joined World Boxing in September.

Background - Khelif's controversial gold

The gender eligibility tests on Khelif that led to her disqualification from the 2023 World Championships were conducted by the Russian-led IBA.

The IBA said Khelif "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in women's competition".

The IOC questioned the legitimacy and credibility of the IBA's tests, saying they could not be relied upon.

Khelif and Lin both went on to win gold in Paris, with their story becoming the central focus of boxing at the games, attracting scrutiny and criticism from around the world.

Boxing has featured at every Olympics since 1904, except 1912, but the IOC has run the sport at the past two Games.

The sport was initially not part of the programme for LA 2028 when the schedule was first announced in 2022.

But the IOC granted provisional recognition for World Boxing as the sport's global governing body earlier this year before voting for its inclusion.

In February 2025, the IBA launched a legal case against the IOC or allowing Khelif to compete citing safety concerns over gender eligibility.

Khelif called them "baseless accusations that are false and offensive".

What is DSD?

DSD is a group of rare conditions, whereby a person's hormones, genes and/or reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics.

Some of those affected prefer the term "intersex", which is an umbrella term used to describe people who are born with biological variations in their sex characteristics that don't fit typical male or female categories.

Other sports have rules in place for athletes with DSD, whose elevated testosterone levels can lead to increased muscle mass and strength.

World Athletics, for example, only allows athletes with DSD to compete in female track events if they reduce their testosterone levels.

How will testing take place?

World Boxing provided a detailed explanation about the testing in its statement.

"The PCR test is a laboratory technique used to detect specific genetic material, in this case the SRY gene, that reveals the presence of the Y chromosome, which is an indicator of biological sex," it said.

"The test can be a be conducted by nasal/mouth swab, saliva or blood.

"Athletes that are deemed to be male at birth, as evidenced by the presence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a difference of sexual development (DSD) where male androgenization occurs, will be eligible to compete in the male category.

"Athletes that are deemed to be female at birth, as evidenced by the presence of XX chromosomes or the absence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a DSD where male androgenization does not occur, will be eligible to compete in the female category."

Under the new policy, national federations will be responsible for testing and will be required to confirm the sex of their athletes when entering them into World Boxing competitions by providing a certification of their chromosomal sex, as determined by a PCR test.

World Boxing said failure to provide that will render the athlete "ineligible to compete" and may lead to sanctions against the athlete or their national federation.

The organisation added: "Where test results for boxers that want to compete in the female category reveal Y chromosome genetic material and a potential DSD, the initial screenings will be referred to independent clinical specialists for genetic screening, hormonal profiles, anatomical examination or other valuation of endocrine profiles by medical specialists.

"As part of its new policy World Boxing will reserve the right to do genetic sex screening on new or existing athlete samples to confirm certification.

"The policy will include an appeals process. Support will be offered to any boxers that provide an adverse test result."

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World Boxing sorry for naming Khelif in rule change

World Boxing has apologised after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was named in the governing body's announcement of mandatory sex testing.

The governing body released its new policy last week, and singled out the Algerian, saying Khelif will not be allowed to compete in the female category of its competitions until the fighter undergoes the test.

But World Boxing has told BBC Sport its president Boris van der Vorst has since written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to apologise after acknowledging that "the athlete's privacy should have been protected".

Khelif, 26, won women's welterweight gold at the Paris Olympics last year amid a row over gender eligibility.

Khelif, along with Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships by previous world governing body the International Boxing Association (IBA) for allegedly failing gender eligibility tests.

Khelif was cleared to compete in Paris by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which stripped the IBA of its status as the sport's amateur world governing body in June 2023 over concerns over how it was run.

The IOC said competitors were eligible for the women's division in Paris if their passports said they were female.


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UPenn to ban trans athletes after probe stemming from swimmer Lia Thomas

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to block transgender athletes from competing in women's sports after a federal civil rights investigation stemming from swimmer Lia Thomas.

The US Department of Education announced the agreement, saying the Ivy League institution would apologise and restore to female athletes titles and records that were "misappropriated by male athletes".

The university said it would update its records set during the 2021–22 season to "indicate who would now hold the records under current eligibility guidelines", but it did not say whether Thomas' records would be erased.

Thomas became the first trans athlete to win the highest US national college title in March 2022.

The deal marks the latest development in President Donald Trump's crackdown on transgender athletes participating in sports. He signed an executive order days after coming into office that sought to prevent transgender women from competing in female categories of sports.

The university was among several that his administration opened investigations into over possible violations of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that bans sex-based discrimination in any education programme or activity that receives federal funding.

Two months later, the Trump administration paused $175m (£127m) in federal funding to the college over its transgender athlete policy.

Under Tuesday's deal, the university must stick to "biology-based definitions" of male and female, in line with the president's executive orders, said the education department.

US Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement: "Today's resolution agreement with UPenn is yet another example of the Trump effect in action.

"Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, UPenn has agreed both to apologize for its past Title IX violations and to ensure that women's sports are protected at the University for future generations of female athletes."

The University of Pennsylvania said its previous policies were in line with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) eligibility criteria at the time, but "we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules".

"We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect at the time," said a statement on its website.

The change at the school comes years after Thomas competed at UPenn - first with the school's men's team for three seasons before starting hormone replacement therapy in spring 2019.

Competing on the women's swim team in 2022, Thomas shattered school swim records, posting the fastest times of any female swimmer. She has since graduated and no longer competes for the university.

She also has noted the transgender population of college athletes is "very small". The NCAA has said it amounted to about 10 athletes.

"The biggest misconception, I think, is the reason I transitioned," Thomas told ABC and ESPN in 2022. "People will say, 'Oh, she just transitioned so she would have an advantage, so she could win.' I transitioned to be happy, to be true to myself."

Last year, Thomas took legal action in a bid to compete again in elite women's sports, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland rejected the case.

It came two years after governing body World Aquatics voted to ban transgender women from such events if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty.

Human Rights Campaign, the largest political group lobbying for LGBT rights in the US, issued a statement criticising the deal.

"The American people deserve a White House that is laser focused on making sure every student thrives," said spokesman Brandon Wolf.

"Instead, this administration is obsessed with making young people's lives harder and scapegoating transgender people so they can attack independent institutions."

BBC
 
Would you allow a transgender male or female competing in women or men cricket?

I dont care if I'm being taboo or not, I hate this we must be respectful towards everyone generation.

Trans women are not women, they are men who have mutilated their bodies same applies for Trans Men.

Our bodies biologically either have the XX chromosome or the XY chromosome. You can't change that. It is simply not possible.

I would never allow my kids or families to interact with a transgender.

The day we see the first tramsgender women playing women's cricket or Transgender Man playing men cricket is the day I stop watching the sport and quit PP for good.

Their is no way in hell I will condone this.
 
mominsaigol said:
Would you allow a transgender male or female competing in women or men cricket?

I dont care if I'm being taboo or not, I hate this we must be respectful towards everyone generation.

Trans women are not women, they are men who have mutilated their bodies same applies for Trans Men.

Our bodies biologically either have the XX chromosome or the XY chromosome. You can't change that. It is simply not possible.

I would never allow my kids or families to interact with a transgender.

The day we see the first tramsgender women playing women's cricket or Transgender Man playing men cricket is the day I stop watching the sport and quit PP for good.

Their is no way in hell I will condone this.
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Everyone who hates Islam has to appreciate it's rules.

If people followed Islam faithfully then western issues such as abortion rates, Unwanted pregnancy, being transgender, Same sex marriage, all this LGBTQ drama simply would not exist.

While I disagree with the concept of Christianity, you have to atleast respect it for more or less keeping the same rules intact.

For me Christianity is like the Original version of Islam but was corrupted due to Human influence.

Islam is defo the pure version.
 
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