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Here is a link to the notes from the IBA presser for anyone who is still confused: https://www.iba.sport/news/iba-clarifies-the-facts-the-letter-to-the-ioc-regarding-two-ineligible-boxers-was-sent-and-acknowledged/

Here is the chronology according to them:

- 1. Imane Khelif has been participating in the IBA competitions since 2018, and Lin Yu-ting has competed since 2017. Current IBA management, having been in leadership since December 2020, has been on top of the problem from the very first IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships they conducted in 2022. IBA cannot comment on the previous iterations and lack of leadership actions in this regard.
- 2. Following many complaints from several coaches, boxers agreed to gender testing. Blood sample collection was made on 17 May 2022. Sistem Tip Laboratory from Istanbul (License Number: 194-MRK) issued its report on 24 May 2022, after the competition ended. The laboratory detected results that didn’t match the eligibility criteria for IBA women’s events.
- 3. Khelif won the silver medal in category 63 kg, Lin won the gold medal in category 57 kg.
- 4.One test for each athlete was not enough to make a decision with respective consequences; in the case that one test mistake is possible. The lawyers advised to monitor the situation and to contact the IOC.
- 5.IBA informed the IOC representatives about these tests, but no reaction followed from the IOC side.
- The situation was completely new to boxing, and IBA, following numerous consultations, decided to conduct a second testing before disqualifying the boxers. However, the second testing could only be conducted in a neutral country and within the IBA competition period.
- 6.At the next IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023 in New Delhi, Khelif and Lin were tested following their consent again before their first fights. Blood sample collection was made on 17 March 2023. Dr Lal PathLabs from New Delhi issued its report on 23 March 2023. The findings were absolutely identical to the first test results.
- 7.On 24 March 2023, IBA Secretary General & CEO at the time, George Yerolimpos, informed both Khelif and Lin about their exclusion from the Championships for not meeting the eligibility criteria. The athletes received a copy of their testing and were informed about the possibility of appealing to the CAS within 21 days.
- 8. Khelif and Lin were informed accordingly about the decision and acknowledged it by signing the papers. The test details were attached to the letter.
- 9. On 26 March 2023, the IBA Board of Directors by a majority vote decided to ratify the decision taken by the IBA Secretary General & CEO on behalf of IBA to disqualify Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023.
- 10.These tests affect the private life of the person concerned and constitute medical information protected as personal data. We are not allowed to publish these documents without the agreement of the person concerned. However, both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting received a copy of these tests, and they never disputed it. They know these tests exist and it is not fake.
- 11. Both athletes were provided with the right to appeal against the Board’s decision to the CAS.
- Lin Yu-ting did not appeal against the decision to declare her ineligible, and it became legal and binding.

It is obvious to me and everyone who isnt putting on blinkered glasses that there were complaints from other boxers and their coaches well before the current controversy, that these complaints led to two different sex tests which looked for chromosomes and not just testosterone. Imane and Ting are Males.

Even if you think the IBA is so corrupt nothing they say can be trusted because of russia whatever- even if you think dr lal pathlabs is corrupt- Dont you think the smart thing for the IOC to do if they cared about safety and fairness of female athletes would be to do a cheek swab? if the cheek swab proved that Imane and Ting were xx , female- wouldnt that have been an easier way to end the controversy? Why did the IOC not do this? Why would you spend your time shouting down and censoring women expressing concern over safety and fairness for female athletes rather than using your social media to demand the IOC does testing? Why are the female athletes not your priority?

Ask yourself if any of the media you have consumed on this issue has explained any of this to you really. or have they just told you Imane and Ting are girls and females and cisgender women? have they told you that the concern is about males rather than transgendered people? in fact a trans man (female) hergie bacyadan entered in womens boxing and not one terf or right wing transphobic bigot said a thing about it? It really really isnt about transphobia or racism or beauty standards- It really is about male or female and biological advantages of having XY and having a testes which produces testosterone and sperm.

Ask yourself why womens sport is not worth protecting for you, and what would happen if we did away with testing for sex and simply relied on passports like the IOC did- do you think any person with xx would ever medal in the future?

Caster Semenya was defended by the same people and media houses in the Rio Olympics. After the olympics caster semenya got a woman pregnant with his sperm and is completely living as a man. How is that fair to the women he robbed of medals?

Ask yourself why youre so quick to conform and believe your media feed and so quick to jump in to defend males and deride females. Does it make you feel good to tell women they need to smile and apologise after being beaten by males? Deal with your misogyny.

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