This is not a transgender case: This is about a woman taking part in a womens competition.
(She is neither.)
At first, it was unclear.
Lin Yu-Ting and Imane Khelif have been the targets of hateful attacks on social media.MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images; Richard Pelham/Getty Images
Complicating matters further is the bad blood between the IBA and IOC.
When pressed for more information about the IBA testing and results, Adams declined to comment.
Theres a whole range of reasons why we wont deal with this, hesaid.
Partly that there was no basis for the test in the first place.
And partly data-sharing of this is also highly against the rules.
Cisgender men have not been subjected to sex verification of any kind.
Seven years later, the IOC followed suit andrepealedtheir blanket sex verification policy in 1999.
Plus, there were systems in place for testing testosterone for doping.
There was already knowledge that testosterone provides a sport-based advantage when used illicitly, Casto explains.
For context, the average testosterone level for cisgender women is0.5 to 2.4 nmol/L.
There are also issues of privacy and confidentiality at play.
This discussion began long before Khelif or Yu-ting stepped foot in the ring in Paris.
This decision is about safety and inclusion, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman wrote in a January 2023blog post.
But the future of boxing might be more inclusive at least at the Olympic level.
