The 2024 women's Olympic boxing champion, Iman Khalif (Algeria) returns to the sport after two years. She released a promotional video with the slogan she is coming back and will make her debut in December at a professional boxing tournament in Paris. between women
And she is actually ostracized from amateur sports. Back in 2023, as a result of a data leak, the world learned that Iman Khalifa has a male karyotype (XY chromosome), even though she is legally a woman. She was registered as a girl at birth, raised as a girl, and her entire sports career was spent in women's boxing. Finally, she considers herself a woman. Her victory at the Paris 2024 Games caused a huge scandal all over the world, because wide sections of fans consider it unfair, because according to genetics, Iman Khalif is, so to speak, a man.
Mainly following her Paris victory, the International Boxing Federation established, starting in 2025, a mandatory genetic test for participants in all women's tournaments at the amateur level, including the Olympic Games, World Championships and more. to prevent biological males from entering them. Iman Khalifa appealed this decision, but did not win. She herself did not take the test and in fact did not participate in competitions for two years.
And so I decided to return to boxing. But already among professionals, there is no need to take Gentest.