Last week, the world watched in horror as an athlete believed to have male chromosomes beat up a woman in a boxing match that lasted less than a minute.
Townhall covered how a female boxer, Angela Carini, from Italy, quit after just 46 seconds against her opponent, Imane Khelif, from Algeria. Many reports indicate that Khelif is believed to be a biological male with XY chromosomes.
An absolute travesty at the Olympics.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 1, 2024
Angela Carini is forced to box against a biological male. She quits after just 45 seconds, and cries hysterically as her opponent is declared the winner.
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Last year, Khelif was not permitted to compete in an international boxing championship for women because he failed a gender eligibility test.
This week, a female boxer who trained with Khelif has come forward stating that he had “male power” and “male techniques” during a match in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The boxer, Joana Nwamerue, said she met Khelif in Bulgaria and was told by members of the Algerian National Team that Khelif was a woman who had simply been biologically altered by living in the mountains.
“[Khelif] has some kind of internal issues. But he is a man. I will stay [by] my words until he/she does a test to prove to the world that he/she is a WOMAN. But we all know that won’t happen,” Nwamerue told Reduxx in an interview.
🚨A female boxer who trained with Imane Khelif has come forward to assert that Khelif "is a man."
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 12, 2024
Joana Nwamerue says the Algerian team tried to convince her that Khelif was simply a woman whose chromosomes had been altered by living in the mountains.https://t.co/Q9pxtCj9qR
Reduxx reached out to Nwamerue after she appeared on a podcast to discuss Khelif’s participation at the Paris Olympics.
On the podcast with Georgi Petkov, Nwamerue said that in February, she was matched to fight Khelif at a sparring session in Sofia. During their competition, Nwamerue said that Khelif mocked her and stuck his tongue out at her.
“I think we played 3-4 sparring sessions. I have a record of everything. I can confirm that this is a man to me. Male power. Men’s techniques, everything,” Nwamerue explained.
“I’m a tomboy, I take a lot of hits and I know how to hold on. But the other girls are not so strong,” she added.
“[Khelif’s] teammates came to me and told me ‘Imane is not a man. She is a woman and just lives high in the mountains with her relatives and parents and so there may be a change in her testosterone or chromosomes and the like,'” Nwamerue said. “So myself and my coach watched [Khelif] and I said ‘that can’t be possible.’ Everywhere has people living in the mountains. It’s absurd.”
Nwamerue described the competition as “pitting a motorcycle against a bicycle.”
This week, Townhall covered how Khelif’s coach, Georges Cazorla, confirmed in an interview that Khelif “has a male karyotype and high testosterone.” When Khelif failed the IBA’s gender eligibility test, he was devastated, Cazorla said.
“Regardless of the results of these biological tests and, without going into detail – that is a matter for biologists and doctors – this poor young girl was devastated, devastated to suddenly discover that she might not be a girl,” Cazorla said.