World boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing.

[GargoylesofBeelzebub]

worldboxing.org/news/

Guess we'll finally find out whether Imane Khelif is female or not. I suspect he will avoid the testing "out of principle" 🤭

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

🤞

Love a bit of Longfellow.

Let's not forget the other cheating male at the last Olympics, Lin Yu-Ting. He's the other one who actually punched women not one of the myriad number of cheats who were happy put him and Khelif up there to do that.

He seems to have been wisely keeping a rather lower profile.

Packs in boxing to become lifestyle zeleb and influencer.

And most oppressed person ever.

Can he speak English? Perhaps he'll pop up on celebrity Big brother or that one where they eat spiders and kangaroos unmentionables.

kangaroos unmentionables.

Ah yes, the jill's testicles.

If he won't test, I wonder if the women who have not consented to be punched by a male have any redress.

This was IW's very confidant opinion before the sex test announcement.

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Indeed. If he tests the women could challenge previous results. If he 'gets injured' and doesn't test, he keeps the gold and no one can challenge these results.

The only alternative is to undermine or falsify any test results, saying it's a conspiracy/lie etc or bribe / falsify a test.

I agree, he will suddenly retire.

The Times article says:

"World Boxing will also reserve the right to instruct genetic sex testing on new or existing athlete samples to confirm their certification."

So hopefully falsification will be hard.

ed idiot sp

...the International Olympic Committee decided that womanhood could be determined by passport status rather than biology.
what à sack of utter spineless morons.

This. 100%

Excuse my ignorance as I've not followed this since the Olympics. I thought Khelif was raised as a female and was suspected to have DSD , is that not the case ?

@FancyNewt if you check my link unthread to The Real Science of Sport podcast, you will get a really good explanation.

Thank you.

That gets a "404 not found" error

History being rewritten already. Steve Bunce, the commentator used by the BBC who was full on ‘Khelif is a woman and anyone that says otherwise is a nasty bigot’, has been community noted on TwiX:

These people are shameless.

https://shows.acast.com/realscienceofsport/episodes/paris-special-episode-males-are-about-to-fight-in-womens-box

This should work. I don’t know why the other one didn’t.

In case this one doesn’t either, it’s The Real Science of Sport on Acast and others dated Thursday August 1, 2024.

This is a great article. The reporter knows IK's sex

Victory!

Most of the news reports however are not giving credit to the real victors here. The protestors online and IRL, mostly women, who stopped this assault on women before it started.

The existing thread will tell you more on the background:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5343571-imane-khelif-to-box-women-in-the-netherlands-eindhoven-cup-june-6-9

As those following that thread saw the promotors of Eindhoven Cup were keen to get Khelif into the competition. They had him on the poster, they were pushing him on social media.

Only this time without the power of the Olympics they had a real pushback to face. A growing storm of protesters online resulted in a mass of women ready to turn up at Eindhoven, even travelling from abroad. Complaints were sent to World Boxing. Seeing the wave of negative publicity they were going to face World Boxing who had a year to sort this out suddenly moved fast.

Once again women speaking up has resulted in a massive win.

Only Oliver Brown in the Telegraph is giving real credit and in turn it seems likely it was his news article in the Telegraph supporting the protestors which caused panic in World Boxing:

World Boxing feared backlash
As late as Tuesday, officials at the Eindhoven event were still enthusiastically promoting Khelif’s involvement, releasing a poster with the caption: “Proud that Imane Khelif is there again to defend her title.”

That provoked a fierce backlash, with women’s rights groups in both the UK and the Netherlands vowing to stage protests on site. Within 48 hours of <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/XSiEo/www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2025/05/28/imane-khelif-imminent-return-boxing-fresh-gender-row/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegraph Sport highlighting the tensions of Khelif’s comeback, World Boxing, who feared the tournament turning into a circus, chose to issue a policy update that it had first promised in February.
https://archive.ph/XSiEo

Imane can turn up and compete in the correct sex category. No issue with that.

It was the full stop at the end of the earlier link.