In 2023, Khelif was banned from the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships as she failed an unspecified gender eligibility test.
Imane Khelif with her gold medal. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
The boxer was born a woman and is listed as a woman on her passport, and was deemed eligible to compete by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the Olympics.
Khelif suffered horrendous trolling over the controversy, and she has since filed a lawsuit against a handful of individuals accused of having committed alleged ‘acts of aggravated cyber harassment’.
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