Boxer Imane Khelif has shared a very powerful statement after coming out on top at the Paris Olympics boxing championship.
The 25-year-old boxer from Algeria has been the center of attention for a gender-based controversy at this year’s event. But winning gold has silenced her haters who have been questioning her entry into the competition since day one.
The 25-year-old defeated her Chinese opponent, Yang Liu, right before overcoming competitors from Italy and Thailand. Winning fair and square, she shed tears after being declared the winner at yesterday’s final.
Speaking out against all the backlash and bullying, Imane says she’s always had to deal with hardships. The amount of negativity and backlash she’s faced has impacted her.
However, at the same time, she says that it also motivated her to do better and channel all of the negativity and frustration against the world into a positive determination to prove them wrong.
Her father also had to prove his daughter’s identity by sharing her birth certificate and more evidence of how she was always born a female and never a trans.
Some raised concerns over her disqualification last year by the IBA who claimed Imane had high levels of testosterone that gave her an unfair advantage.
The Olympic committee trashed those claims. They called the IBA’s gender eligibility fake and unreliable. They also slammed all the claims they made regarding Imane’s ‘unique chromosome’ condition where she had an XY condition. Now, the boxer is standing proud with her gold, serving as an inspiration for all other women in this world.