Boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to return after gender eligibility ruling

Why can't World Boxing get its act together?

Politics? I wonder if World Boxing got the Olympics gig because they were more amenable to classifying men as women?

"Both Lin and Khelif had been disqualified from the 2023 World Championships by previous world governing body the International Boxing Association (IBA), which said they had "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in women's competition".

The IBA was later stripped of its status by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over integrity and governance issues, and the IOC ran boxing competitions at the Paris Games.

Since the 2024 Olympics, World Boxing has taken over the governance of the sport at Olympic level from the IBA and introduced a new eligibility policy in August 2025 that includes mandatory sex testing.

World Boxing has confirmed that Lin, who has missed a number of competitions since the policy was introduced, would now be eligible to compete at its events."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/c20qjn3jp8lo

It is terrible if the articles can be relied on.

I do wish sports women would just refuse on masse to participate in any competition that he appears in.

or any other sport with an apparent man.

it is called collective action.

What's the point of having the test if they're going to still give men who fail it a free pass into the women's category. 🤬

They really need to have published criteria, in the same way that world athletics does.

That's confusing. Thanks for clearing it up for me 😊

Chinese Taipei. That’s the name of Taiwan and the name of their boxing authority.

So after all that furore men in the women's category is just going to carry on. Why can't World Boxing get its act together?

I thought Lin Yu-Ting was Taiwanese? I'm astonished the Chinese would be prepared to do him any favours.

The line towards the end of the BBC article about “transparency” is laughable.

The only thing that makes sense medically is that he has partial androgen insensitivity syndrome and it has been ruled that the benefits of testosterone are minimal. Given his physical appearance, I think this is unlikely.

What is more likely is that the Chinese Taipei Boxing lawyers have successfully argued a legal technicality.

It'll be interesting to see what happens if that boxer travels to the US to compete in the women's competition in the Olympics.

To be fair to Lin Yu-Ting and Imane Khelif neither of them are transwomen. Although the difference between a man identifying as a woman and a man identified as a woman seems to be a question for philosophers rather than doctors.

The article seems to be implying that Lin Yu-ting has a Y chromosome but World Boxing has taken other physiological aspects into account and assigned the boxer as female. It's not at all clear.

You can see his penis through his shorts.

Typical of the Guardian to be gloating in such a way.