Leaked medical report confirms Olympic boxer is male despite media claims
A leaked medical report has confirmed that Algerian national Imane Khelif, who won the gold in women’s welterweight boxing at the Olympic Games last year, is male.
Khelif has insisted he is female, even after being disqualified from the Women's World Boxing Championship in March 2023 for failing a gender test. Despite this, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed Khelif to compete against women for the boxing championship in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. His opponent, Angela Carini, withdrew seconds into the match, afterwards saying she “had never been hit so hard” in her “life.”
His victory drew outrage from observers, who pointed out that Khelif is obviously a man. Khelif threatened lawsuits against those who criticized his win, like Elon Musk, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, and President Donald Trump. He also threatened to sue French journalist Djaffar Ait Auodia in October after Auodia published a leaked medical report confirming that Khelif has testicles.
Now, another report has been leaked, this time a blood test confirming that Khelif has male karyotype chromosomes. According to Reduxx, the test results were leaked by Olympic press committee member Alan Abrahamson. It was this test, conducted per request of the International Boxing Association (IBA), that reportedly led to Khelif’s disqualification from the World Boxing Championship in 2023. The test results had not been disclosed by the IBA.
Media gaslighting
Legacy media insisted Khelif was a woman and shamed anyone who said otherwise as “transphobic.”
“A lot of people need to apologize,” Jemele Hill, a writer for The Atlantic, wrote in August 2024. “I hope Khelif sues some people over their reckless remarks. All this story did was expose ugliness, hatred, and transphobia. As Carini admitted here, she quit because she was upset she was gonna get her ass whooped and other folks turned it into something else.”
ESPN suggested the “misconceptions about [Khelif’s] womanhood” was “hate speech.” The sports news outlet insisted that any claims about the boxer being male was “Russian disinformation.” The Associated Press called it “hateful scrutiny.”
Riley Gaines, a swimmer who in 2022 lost to a man calling himself Lia Thomas, reacted to Khelif’s blood test results on X.
“To all the people that insisted Imane Khelif was a woman because his passport said so, You were wrong. We were right,” the women’s sports activist wrote. “Sincerely, People with functioning eyes and a shred of honesty.”
