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imane khelif has been allegedly confirmed to be a man.

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Cartwrightandson · 04/11/2024 13:15

A leaked French medical report from 2023 has confirmed that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is male.

Top endocrinologists found that Khelif has XY chromosomes, no uterus, internal testicles, and a "micropenis."

The report was drafted in June of 2023 via a collaboration between the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers, Algeria. Drafted by expert endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young, the report reveals that Khelif is impacted by 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a disorder of sexual development that is only found in biological males.

reduxx.info/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-has-xy-chromosomes-and-testicles-french-algerian-medical-report-admits/

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HardyCrow · 05/11/2024 18:15

WetBandits · 04/11/2024 13:30

I still don’t agree with the witch hunt. If Khelif reasonably believed themselves to be female and had been brought up as female since birth without knowing about the chromosomal disorder, they were not acting as a man boxing against women. Intent counts here, I think.

If they knew and still competed, that is a different story.

Edited

Of course he knew. He was in the Algerian army ( as a man).

WearyAuldWumman · 05/11/2024 18:16

HardyCrow · 05/11/2024 18:15

Of course he knew. He was in the Algerian army ( as a man).

Eh? Is there a source for this?

NonPlayerCharacter · 05/11/2024 18:17

HardyCrow · 05/11/2024 18:15

Of course he knew. He was in the Algerian army ( as a man).

Was he? I can't find a source for this.

Datun · 05/11/2024 18:19

OneBadKitty · 05/11/2024 17:08

Why do we need sex testing when the women on here can just tell from watching them walk and the shape of their body?

True.

I'm more than happy to be the boss of the sex testing.

Where do I sign?

MayNov · 05/11/2024 18:24

I agree with this, unfortunately there’s a history of coaches seeking out boys with DSD to train for the women’s Olympics. That’s why there used to be such strict rules around gender tests back in the day.

TiredyMcTired · 05/11/2024 18:24

ResisterOfTwaddleRex · 04/11/2024 13:38

They knew. They still let him compete. They lied. We were told we were wrong and we were nasty so that a man could steal other women's places in competition, and hit women. There's no excuse. Maybe you did grow up in poverty or have a hard life. Immaterial. Not relevant. Facts and fairness are the only relevant things in sports. He should hand back his medals and recuse himself from women's sports. The people who let him in should resign or be sacked.

🎯

ZoeZee · 05/11/2024 18:30

It’s an absolute disgrace that this ever was allowed to happen!

Every single male athlete who has ever competed in the female category, should hand any medal back to the rightful owner. A full list of these athletes, medals won, and the female who should have won, should be published.

NonPlayerCharacter · 05/11/2024 18:36

It's not the first time. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, there was a race - 800m, I think, can't remember which - where not a single women's medal winner was female (Caster Semenya was one of them).

ZoeZee · 05/11/2024 18:49

Isn’t it fucking ironic that the first City women were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games was Paris in 1900! Well done Paris for fucking us over in 2024!

Women WERE NOT ALLOWED before 1900! Why are MEN now allowed in our category! Beggars belief!

The IOC is committed to gender equality in sport! Oh do fuck off!

imane khelif has been allegedly confirmed to be a man.
HelenaTranscart · 05/11/2024 18:50

Hoppinggreen · 04/11/2024 13:20

In other news Bears shit in the woods and The Pope is Catholic

I believe the Pope is a Terf

HelenaTranscart · 05/11/2024 18:52

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 04/11/2024 13:42

We need a 'Women's Lives Matter' movement...

Indeed, it's Posie's Party of Women

niadainud · 05/11/2024 19:06

Helleofabore · 05/11/2024 17:45

Considering they were the women who broke the story all the way back in August 2024 and nothing they have reported on this story has ever been even countered by the IOC or Khelif and team, you can draw your own conclusions.

All the IOC and Khelif's team did was emphasise the IOC's regulations and how what was reported didn't change eligibility. Nothing they released was inconsistent to Reduxx's articles.

Good to know, thanks.

I was involved in a discussion where the "proof" that Imane is female was that "she has never said she is anything other than female" and that "in a country like Algeria your only identity comes from what you were declared to be at birth".

I was told that the information I cited was "dubious" and "unsubstantiated" so I wanted to check how reliable Reduxx is as a source (not that the person who was so quick to dismiss what I said had any idea where I had read it).

NonPlayerCharacter · 05/11/2024 19:15

niadainud · 05/11/2024 19:06

Good to know, thanks.

I was involved in a discussion where the "proof" that Imane is female was that "she has never said she is anything other than female" and that "in a country like Algeria your only identity comes from what you were declared to be at birth".

I was told that the information I cited was "dubious" and "unsubstantiated" so I wanted to check how reliable Reduxx is as a source (not that the person who was so quick to dismiss what I said had any idea where I had read it).

Edited

I'm assuming that you're assuming my post was aimed at you personally.

It actually wasn't, hence no quote or tag. I noticed it was ambiguous, and gave you the benefit of the doubt.

However, it was about the 12th post we've had questioning Reduxx's veracity (and that question has been answered) and most of the others were openly hostile about it as a source. Since we all know those people are still watching so they can plop when they feel like it, I decided to make an open comment. And it stands.

Thistlewoman · 05/11/2024 19:16

Cartwrightandson · 04/11/2024 13:15

A leaked French medical report from 2023 has confirmed that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is male.

Top endocrinologists found that Khelif has XY chromosomes, no uterus, internal testicles, and a "micropenis."

The report was drafted in June of 2023 via a collaboration between the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers, Algeria. Drafted by expert endocrinologists Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young, the report reveals that Khelif is impacted by 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a disorder of sexual development that is only found in biological males.

reduxx.info/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-has-xy-chromosomes-and-testicles-french-algerian-medical-report-admits/

He is a cheating sportsman, and his gold medals should be stripped from him.
and Vogue should be bloody ashamed of themselves for putting him on their front cover. Never buying that rag again!

niadainud · 05/11/2024 19:32

NonPlayerCharacter · 05/11/2024 19:15

I'm assuming that you're assuming my post was aimed at you personally.

It actually wasn't, hence no quote or tag. I noticed it was ambiguous, and gave you the benefit of the doubt.

However, it was about the 12th post we've had questioning Reduxx's veracity (and that question has been answered) and most of the others were openly hostile about it as a source. Since we all know those people are still watching so they can plop when they feel like it, I decided to make an open comment. And it stands.

No, I didn't assume that at all.

Sorry if the question had already been answered - it is a very long thread. To clear up any confusion/ambiguity, I am a fully paid-up "TERF" and I was only questioning the source because I had never heard of Reduxx and wanted to be sure I was quoting something kosher.

Lovely13 · 05/11/2024 19:47

The IOC is truly disgraceful. Hanging out women to dry. Risking severe injury. Bunch of suits who do not care about lives they are destroying.
Same with many other sports organisations. Just watched ‘It’s All Over’ on Netflix re the Spanish women’s team winning the World Cup. Behaviour of the men in their sports bodies is jaw-droppingly misogynistic.

MayNov · 05/11/2024 19:50

ZoeZee · 05/11/2024 18:49

Isn’t it fucking ironic that the first City women were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games was Paris in 1900! Well done Paris for fucking us over in 2024!

Women WERE NOT ALLOWED before 1900! Why are MEN now allowed in our category! Beggars belief!

The IOC is committed to gender equality in sport! Oh do fuck off!

To top it all off, women’s boxing only became an official Olympic sport at the London 2012 Games.
So we had a good … 12 years before it became impossible to compete fairly again.

GCNonna · 05/11/2024 19:51

Thanks for sharing. What a cheater!

ZoeZee · 05/11/2024 19:52

MayNov · 05/11/2024 19:50

To top it all off, women’s boxing only became an official Olympic sport at the London 2012 Games.
So we had a good … 12 years before it became impossible to compete fairly again.

It’s an absolute disgrace!

SidewaysOtter · 05/11/2024 19:54

TheKeatingFive · 05/11/2024 16:28

Until it's unavoidable, and then it will be the TERFs fault for being bad people who were right for the wrong reasons, causing the good people to have mistakenly been wrong, but only wrong for right and good reasons.

This is EXACTLY how it's going to play out. Perfectly expressed.

If only we hadn't been so shrill and angry. No-one likes shrill and angry women. We could just have been nice and kind and quiet. Asked politely, that sort of thing.

Hmm
YouAreOne · 05/11/2024 20:00

Literally never met one trans person who passes. Especially not MtF.

Same. Even the ones who say they pass.

vulvacious · 05/11/2024 20:10

As if people are even reading that site, never mind believing the hate mongering bullshitters.

YouAreOne · 05/11/2024 20:11

vulvacious · 05/11/2024 20:10

As if people are even reading that site, never mind believing the hate mongering bullshitters.

You mean reading actual facts?

wombat15 · 05/11/2024 20:14

YouAreOne · 05/11/2024 20:00

Literally never met one trans person who passes. Especially not MtF.

Same. Even the ones who say they pass.

Would you know if you met a trans person who passes? They aren't likely to point out they are trans if they don't have to.

Helleofabore · 05/11/2024 20:20

niadainud · 05/11/2024 19:06

Good to know, thanks.

I was involved in a discussion where the "proof" that Imane is female was that "she has never said she is anything other than female" and that "in a country like Algeria your only identity comes from what you were declared to be at birth".

I was told that the information I cited was "dubious" and "unsubstantiated" so I wanted to check how reliable Reduxx is as a source (not that the person who was so quick to dismiss what I said had any idea where I had read it).

Edited

It is likely that people who are determined to wait for some kind of official press release to be ‘convinced’ will dismiss whatever the source is that is not from Khelif. The original source for this leak is the French reporter, who published on le correspondant site, who published it before Reduxx picked it up. The original source for this leak is not Reduxx. However, they did release the first article about Khelif and Ling in August.

Because of that, it will require talking through what is known from various sources including the boxing federations.

A French site, Le Point
also published Georges Cazorla‘s statement back in August too. That statement was also never actually denied or even countered by any of Khelif’s current management.

As we have seen, there are many people who will not do their own research and feel all too comfortable to denigrate others who have or who will narrow their reading for numerous reasons and then state there is no evidence when this is illogical and is based on narrow and biased sources.

When left wing publications refuse to publish anything such as this in case of being cancelled themselves, there is little hope for getting the message through. This is the world we live in sadly.

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