The matter of two boxers fighting in women's category are actually male, at least as International Boxing Association found so on the basis of chromosome test being conducted twice.
Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria who are both now in the semi-finals of the women’s boxing in Paris are under scanner here by IBA.
The International Boxing Association (IBA) held a press conference Monday and categorically confirmed that the two fighters currently participating in Olympic women’s boxing are “male,” because they failed a previous gender chromosome test.
Dr. Ioannis Filippatos, the former Chair of the IBA Medical Committee, also spoke at the press conference and was adamant that the fighters should not be competing as women.
“Medicine is knowledge, it is not opinion,”
Filippatos stressed :
“The blood results look and say — the laboratories — that this boxer is male,”
However,
The IOC, refuses to back down from describing the fighters as women, with spokesperson Mark Adams claiming “These athletes have been competing in senior competitions for six years with no issues. These women were eligible for this contest, remain eligible for this contest and compete in this contest.”
That's not all Adams went on to suspect the credibility of previous gender test for the two (Male or Female?) boxers despite the source being the IBA.
How do you view all this furore?
How come IOC defending woke culture?
Are we entering into a new era where we can't differentiate gender by just looking at the outward physique of a person?