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1Misinformation, abuse and injustice: breaking down the Olympic boxing firestorm
August 5, 2024, The Conversation
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In a preliminary women’s under 66kg boxing match at the Paris Olympics last week between Algerian Imane Khelif and Italian Angela Carini, a powerful punch to the face resulted in Carini withdrawing after 46 seconds.
Carini dissolved into tears, crying “this is unfair”, and “I have never been hit so hard in my life”.
Almost immediately, journalists and commentators jumped to Carini’s defence, raising questions about International Olympic Committee (IOC) policies and making many false assertions about Khelif’s gender identity.
The backstory
In the face of harmful inaccuracies and widespread online hate speech it is important to outline some of the basics.
Khelif has identified as female since birth and lived her entire life as a woman, including throughout her sporting career.
She is not transgender. She did not go through puberty as a male and then transition later.
Her passport marks her identity as female, thus meeting the IOC criteria for gender classification of boxers.
