Olympic boxing’s gender controversy: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 5, 2024

Regarding the women’s boxing horror show in Paris: The story of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is more complicated than The Post describes it ( “Fairness takes a woke beating,” Aug. 2).

Khelif, who has lived her life identifying as a female, was disqualified from the World Championships by the International Boxing Association in 2022 and 2023 for failing gender tests. However, the IBA has not disclosed what those tests were, nor the conditions under which they were given. Furthermore, the International Olympic Committee does not recognize those tests.

Regardless, something should be done to safeguard females at the Olympics. This is more important than avoiding hurt feelings, as it is only a matter of time before some poor girl or woman athlete is maimed or potentially killed by a biological male.

Stuart Ellison

Brooklyn

Let’s clear things up, as there are many transphobia tropes being spread: Khelif is not a transgender athlete.

Khelif was born — and has spent her entire life — as a female.

Not to mention, many women have elevated levels of testosterone, and plenty of conditions in which biological females are born with XY chromosomes. Khelif, if anything, is likely an intersex woman.

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And she has been cleared to compete in women’s boxing because she is precisely that — a woman.

George Markos

Eatontown, NJ

There is a pervasive wokeism that is hurting the Olympics.

The competition will likely, over time, continue to include individuals who might have a genetic or hormonal advantage over women. I believe participants with any possible hormonal advantage should be banned from participating as females.

Don’t even get me started on individuals who simply identify as female. It is sad that the burden now lies on women, as a group, to have a stronger voice and stance on this issue because the smaller, louder voices in society are winning this match.

Amy Hendel

Manhattan

Help me understand regarding Khelif’s pounding of Italian boxer Angela Carini. Do the gender-affirming left and feminist cheering squads now approve of seemingly intersex people like Khelif beating up other female boxers?

Paul O’Keefe

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Union City, NJ

Because Khelif’s passport says she is a woman, that was enough for the International Olympic Committee to allow her to compete in a boxing match against a woman.

It is a travesty for athletes who have trained most of their lives to compete at the Olympics, only to face an unfair competitor who has been allowed to compete to avoid hurting their feelings.

Bo Madden

Jupiter, Fla.

The Paris Olympics will be remembered for two highlights: The drag queens at the opening ceremony, and the presumably intersex boxer who, as the Olympic Committee also asserts, is identified as a female.

Hans Sander

Gordon, Australia

It seems as if people with a sixth-grade science education are making decisions on who is allowed to compete in the Olympics.

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Miles Kuttler

Aventura, Fla.

The International Olympic Committee is an absolute disgrace.

Watching the Italian team’s boxer get beaten to the point that the young woman quit fighting after a mere 46 seconds was terrible.

Worse still, if she had continued to try to fight, she could have risked serious — if not critical — injury.

And watching the IOC try and justify this travesty was abominable. Is the IOC really willing to get a female boxer killed in the ring in service of a woke ideology?

Apparently, it is — and that is despicable.

Robert DiNardo

Farmingdale

I have two reasons not to watch the Paris Olympics: This year’s opening ceremony desecrated The Last Supper, and Khelif beat Carini.

Charles Prignano

Colorado Springs, Colo.

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