BREAKING: Imane Khelif’s Trainer Confirms Claims About XY Chromosomes and High Testosterone

Khelif’s trainer just spilled the beans in a new interview with the French magazine Le Point.

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This week, two male boxers won Gold medals in Olympic women’s boxing—Imane Khelif of Algeria, and Taiwan’s Lin Yu Ting. This was a truly incredible feat. Not a feat of athleticism, but rather of sheer incompetence on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing it to happen. Despite being disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA) in 2023 for multiple failed DNA tests, which the IOC had been explicitly warned about prior to the Paris Olympics, these male boxers were still permitted to pummel woman after woman on their way to Olympic gold.

The public backlash has been understandably intense. After all, allowing males to compete against women in any Olympic sport undermines fairness for women. But allowing males to compete against women in combat sports like boxing is not only profoundly unfair but also extremely dangerous. Despite the controversy, after winning the Olympic gold, Khelif filed a legal complaint with the Paris Prosecutor’s office for online harassment and purportedly false claims about Khelif’s sex during the Paris Olympics.

Although there is no valid reason to doubt the IBA’s claim that Khelif and Yu Ting are biologically male, many still refuse to concede the point until the DNA test results are made public—an unlikely scenario due to medical privacy regulations. On top of this, the athlete’s home countries have insisted that these DNA results remain tightly sealed. Nevertheless, IBA officials have told the public to “read between the lines” concerning the failed DNA tests and their XX chromosome requirement for competing in the female category.

Both boxers and their supporters are attempting to create the appearance of a stalemate, even though the athletes could quickly and conclusively disprove these claims if they are indeed false. Considering the IBA has publicly stated that both boxers failed a DNA test conducted in labs approved by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and given there is no credible reason or incentive for them to lie, the burden of proof now lies with Khelif and Yu Ting to refute these claims. Their silence and secrecy are telling.

However, while the IBA is prohibited from disclosing private medical test results, one of Khelif’s trainers appears to have just spilled the beans in a new interview with the French magazine Le Point.