The gender identity of Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who has won gold in women’s boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, is under tight spotlight after the leak of a medical report. A document obtained by French journalist Djaffar Ait Aoudia indicates that Khelif has internal testicles and XY chromosomes, that is said to be a case of 5-alpha reductase deficiency. The report was drafted in June 2023 by medical professionals at Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris and Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Hospital in Algiers, it revealed the nonexistence of uterus, additionally MRI also revealed the presence of micropenis, as reported by Redux.

Earlier also a medical revelation showed that Khelif has XY chromosomes. As a matter of fact, the International Boxing Association had already barred him from competing in the fight for the Gold Medal for the 2023 World Championship in New Delhi with these findings. Immediately upon the emergence of the said medical report, Piers Morgan has had his say also, basing it on said documents to prove that he is biologically male.

Since then, the issue has been politicized, with former President Donald Trump using Khelif’s case in a political ad to criticize the Biden-Harris administration’s stance on transgender athletes in women’s sports. Trump and several Republican leaders, including Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance, have spoken out against allowing men to compete in female-only sports events. However, amidst all this controversy, Khelif claims that she is a woman and was born as a woman, dismissing the fact that there is so much controversy concerning her gender.

“I’m a woman like any other woman. I was born as a woman, I live as a woman, and I am qualified.” She claimed that the gender controversy sparked by former US President Donald Trump, author J.K. Rowling, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had impacted her alot. She named Rowling and Musk in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment”. Khelif had said earlier