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Oscar De La Hoya speaks out on Algeria's Imane Khelif controversy: I lost respect for the IOC

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The current topic at the Paris Olympic Games is undoubtedly the controversy that has arisen around the sexuality of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who defeated Italy's Angela Carini in the round of 16 of the 66 kg, abandoning the bout only 46 seconds after it started.

Although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has already come out to clarify Khelif's situation, demonstrating that the African ed all gender eligibility tests and the suspension of the IBF in which it was allegedly announced that she has XY chromosomes was arbitrary and without criteria, there are still people and public figures who continue to push the narrative that she is a man.

Imane Khelif's training session amidst controversy over 46-second Olympic bout

The words of Oscar De La Hoya

Among them are former world champion, Olympic medalist and promoter Oscar De La Hoya, who on his Twitter/X ed a video where he gives his opinion on the situation, calling Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-tin 'men' and criticizing the IOC.

"What in the f**k is going on? In Paris this year, where two biological men are competing against biological women in the sport of boxing? The IOC allowed this to happen, and it's saying it's okay because they are females in their ports! Wait, what? Are you kidding me?" he said.

"I've lost all my respect for the IOC," he added.

Both Khelif and Yu-tin are 'biological women'

It is important to clarify that both Khelif and Yu-tin are 'cisgender' women, meaning that they identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, and are not transgender, and in Khelif's case, she most likely has a condition called hypoandrogenism, where a woman produces more testosterone than normal.

Also, as De La Hoya mentions that both fighters are women on their ports and this is allowed by the IOC, it should be clear that in Algeria it is illegal to be a trans person, while in Taiwan, a trans person must have undergone gender reassignment surgery before being recognized as a man or a woman.

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