Algerian female boxer – Imane Khelif aged 25, has been bullied online, after defeating Italian Boxer – Angela Carini. Imane lost 9 times and conquered 37 wins in her boxing career.
Khelif was defeated by Irish female boxer – Kellie Harrington in the Quarter Finals of the 2020 Olympics. She was defeated by Karina IIbragimova at the 2019 Women’s World Boxing Championships.
There was no outrage then, and she is not a transgender as the rumour claims. She was born female, and has a high level of testosterone. Ladies with severe syndrome have XY chromosomes, found in reports.
Imane Khelif, a welterweight from Algeria, qualified for the quarterfinals of the Olympics women’s boxing tournament by dismantling Italy’s Angela Carini in the round of 16. Their match lasted for 46 seconds, several of which included Carini waving her hand at the referee, as if she had an imaginary white flag, jammed into her glove.
Moments earlier, Khelif smashed her with her straight right hand to the face, and landing with enough force that made Carini abandon her Olympic dream.
The right hand, and the punch we know now, altogether ignited a culture war.
Within few minutes after the match, allegations of cheating rippled through the internet. Bestselling author J.K. Rowling weighed in and piled on the controversy, as did Jake and Logan Paul, Hall of Fame boxer Oscar De La Hoya, and retired football star Dez Bryant.
They all accused Khelif, who was born, raised, and has only ever lived as a woman, of some form of gender chicanery.
Was she intersex? Transgender? or A straight-up man masquerading as a woman? These questions imbibed inside us all. None of the people trolling Khelif really knew about her actual gender, but they all seemed so sure, duh!
The mainstream news organizations added their own stories questioning Khelif’s gender credentials, relying on evidence that looks credible but falls short in ways. Respectable outlets also caught the heat and didn’t called Khelif a gender doper, but didn’t even made clear that she wasn’t one.
All because Khelif, a quarterfinalist in Tokyo three years ago, molly whopped Carini, who wept about it afterward, and refused to shake the victor’s hand post fight.
After one day and countless inflammatory, defamatory, offensive social media posts from misogynists across the world, Italian boxer Carini was ready to apologize to Khelif.
She explained that her in-ring reaction, was pure disappointment, and not an attempt to undermine Khelif’s womanhood. Whatever the gender rules in the Olympics are, Carini is convinced now that Khelif is following them.
“All this controversy makes me sad,” expressed Carini. She elaborated later on her demeanour after the bout. “Actually, I want to apologize to her and to everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke,” she explained, adding that she would hug Khelif if she saw her in person.
Khelif is not just the only one to receive this disgust, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting also failed the gender eligibility test, in the past due to the higher testosterone hormone that generates in their body, and received the same reaction from the world.
Well, generation of hormones is not in human’s hand they can’t control it. And there’s no fault of any of the athlete or player. But what really questionable is, that do these gender eligibility tests really identifies someone or classify one into their specific gender, XX or XY, as defined scientifically.
The controversy was indeed an eye opener for all in the society and waked to be aware of their gender identity, or you’ll get screwed like Khelif on internet!