Important Takeaways:

• A volleyball player left partially paralyzed by a transgender opponent has slammed the Olympics over its boxing controversy.
• She told DailyMail.com it was ‘disgusting’ that two boxers who failed gender tests had been cleared to fight women at this year’s Games in Paris.
• ‘These women have worked so hard and trained tirelessly to get all the way to the Olympics, all so they can get punched in the face by a dude. ‘It used to be illegal for men to beat up women, and now people are putting it on TV and watching it. It’s such a weird reality we are living in now.’
• Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan were banned from competing in the Women’s World Boxing Championships in March last year in New Delhi because they failed gender eligibility tests.
• Khelif and Lin have both always competed as women and it does not appear that either identifies as transgender or intersex (those born with sexual organs belonging to both sexes).
• But the Paris Olympics’ organizers have cleared them to fight in the women’s divisions, saying their entry complies with ‘applicable medical regulations.’
• Concerns were raised over the transgender athletes being included in women’s boxing at the Olympics after video showed Imane Khelif landing brutal blows on their competitor Mexico’s Brianda Tamara
• Khelif has claimed online that they have been excluded from matches because of a ‘conspiracy’ to prevent Algeria winning a gold medal.

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