Khelif Appeals To Cas Over Genetic Sex Testing

Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif has lodged an entreaty pinch nan Court of Arbitration for Sport complete a ruling which prevents nan jock fighting successful nan female class without a familial activity test.

The Algerian has revenge an entreaty which is attempting to overturn a decision made by World Boxing successful May to present mandatory testing for its competitions.

Khelif's entreaty besides requested Cas declares nan 26-year-old eligible for nan 2025 World Boxing Championships from 4-14 September without a test.

However, Cas dismissed a petition to suspend nan execution of nan determination by World Boxing until nan lawsuit is heard.

In May, World Boxing said that "all athletes complete nan property of 18" who wish to participate successful competitions it owns aliases sanctions will "need to acquisition a PCR (polymerase concatenation reaction) familial trial to find their activity astatine commencement and their eligibility to compete".

Shortly aft that determination World Boxing apologised for naming Khelif successful its announcement of mandatory activity testing.

Both parties are now exchanging written submissions and, pinch their agreement, a proceeding will beryllium scheduled by Cas successful owed course.

Khelif won women's welterweight gold astatine nan Paris Olympics past twelvemonth amid a row complete gender eligibility.

Khelif, on pinch Taiwanese combatant Lin Yu-ting, was disqualified from nan 2023 World Championships by erstwhile world governing assemblage nan International Boxing Association (IBA) for allegedly failing gender eligibility tests.

Khelif was cleared to compete successful Paris by nan International Olympic Committee (IOC), which stripped nan IBA of its position arsenic nan sport's amateur world governing assemblage successful June 2023 complete concerns complete really it was run.

The IOC said competitors were eligible for nan women's section successful Paris if their passports said they were female and made it clear past twelvemonth this is "not a transgender case".

Khelif has ever competed successful nan women's section and location is nary proposal nan Algerian identifies arsenic thing different than a woman.

Some reports took nan IBA stating that Khelif has XY chromosomes to estimate nan jock mightiness person differences of intersexual improvement (DSD) for illustration runner Caster Semenya.

World Boxing was granted provisional nickname arsenic nan sport's world governing federation by nan IOC successful February 2025.