Olympic boxer Imane Khelif reveals SRY gene and testosterone remedy

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Boxer Imane Khelif admitted to having the SRY gene , situated on the Y chromosome which is present in organic males and present process hormone therapies to decrease testosterone ranges forward of the 2024 Olympics, in an interview with the French sports activities publication L'Equipe .

Khelif has denied being transgender.

"All of us have totally different genetics, totally different hormone ranges. I am not transgender. My distinction is pure. That is who I'm. I have never performed something to vary the best way nature made me. That is why I am not afraid," Khelif mentioned. " I've taken hormone therapies to decrease my testosterone ranges for competitions."

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Imane Khelif (r) from Algeria and Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary combat one another. (Sina Schuldt/image alliance through Getty Pictures)

Khelif dedicated to additionally taking a genetic intercourse take a look at to compete within the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, which is prone to be required.

"For the next Games , if I've to take a take a look at, I'll. I've no drawback with that, Khelif mentioned.

The Impartial Council on Ladies's Sports activities (ICONS) has launched an announcement addressing Khelif's admission.

"Algerian Olympic ladies’s gold medalist Imane Khelif has now confirmed he's male. With males now not eligible for Olympic women’s boxing beneath World Boxing guidelines, Khelif reportedly plans to field professionally in Europe — although he inexplicably says he'll nonetheless bear intercourse screening for the LA 2028 Video games in hopes of competing," the assertion learn.

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Algeria's Imane Khelif, proper, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini of their ladies's 66kg preliminary boxing match on the 2024 Summer season Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photograph/John Locher)

Khelif gained a gold medal in ladies’s boxing on the 2024 Paris Olympics beneath heavy scrutiny from the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA), which was derecognized by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2023 amid considerations concerning the group's governance, monetary reliance on Russian state vitality agency Gazprom and the integrity of the bouts.

Khelif was beforehand disqualified from the IBA for failing a gender eligibility take a look at. IBA President Umar Kremlev claimed on the time that unpublished DNA take a look at outcomes confirmed Khelif had XY chromosomes.

The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) defended the outcomes of the Paris Video games, stating that Khelif and one other boxer that confronted gender eligibility considerations have been the victims of a "sudden and arbitrary determination by the IBA."

World Boxing, the worldwide governing physique for the game, introduced a brand new coverage in August that introduces mandatory sex testing to make sure solely females compete within the ladies's class. Khelif has appealed the brand new coverage that can maintain the athlete out of any competitions pending the outcomes of genetic testing.

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Imane Khelif of Group Algeria appears on towards Anna Luca Hamori of Group Hungary in the course of the Ladies's 66kg Quarter-final spherical match on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at North Paris Enviornment on August 03, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Pictures)

Khelif didn't compete in a world boxing match within the Netherlands final summer season after failing to register in time earlier than the functions closed.

President Donald Trump beforehand mentioned there might be a "robust type of testing" when requested about potential genetic testing for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics at a press convention on Aug. 5.

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