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Over the past few days, Algerian boxing champ Imane Khelif dropped bombshells in a LEquipe interview published February 4, revealing she took hormone treatments to drop her testosterone to zero before the 2024 Paris Olympics where she snagged welterweight gold. She confirmed having the natural SRY gene on her Y chromosome but insisted shes not transgender, just a girl born raised and living as one, surrounded by doctors monitoring her. LEquipe reports shes ready for World Boxings mandatory chromosome tests aiming for that 2028 LA Olympic repeat to defend her title as Algerias first.
The Telegraph slammed it as a cynical PR push, noting her CNN chat framing critics as politically agenda-driven while dodging public sex verification despite 18 months since her IBA disqualification for male karyotype from a certified New Delhi lab. No cheek swab yet, they say, just talk of IOC-only tests later. Shes chasing a French pro boxing license too, per LEquipe, her logical next step without quitting Olympics dreams.
World Boxing apologized via Sky Sports after naming her in a June 2025 policy announcement barring her from Eindhoven without screening, protecting her privacy now. Shes appealed to CAS but got stalled. No fresh bouts since Paris, and social buzz stays heated with old echoes from Trump and Rowling, though she respects them but calls out truth-twisting.
In the last 24 hours, no blockbuster headlines, but her hormone reveal ripples big for her bio long-term, weighing eligibility fairness against her grit.
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