Controversy ERUPTS Over Taiwanese Intersex Athlete After WINNING GOLD In Featherweight Final

On Saturday, a fighter who had flunked a gender-eligibility test came top in the women’s Olympic featherweight final.

Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, 28, was tall for the weight class and had a massive size advantage over Julia Szeremeta of Poland, cruised to victory on all three scorecards.

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“These two right now are not remotely on the same level,” one of the Olympic commentators noted during the match.

This has been corroborated by the International Boxing Association (IBA) who have said Lin is the second fighter to take women’s Olympic boxing gold despite tests showing XY chromosomes.

Lin was cleared to compete in the women’s category by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) despite flunking a gender test in 2019 and then again in 2023.

“As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams stated at a press conference.

He also responded to fears over testosterone levels saying, “Many women can have testosterone which will be called ‘male levels’ and still be women and still compete as women,” he said. “This idea that you do one test for testosterone and that sorts everything out? Not the case, I’m afraid.”

“Both boxers were asked to take a further blood test,” IBA CEO Chris Roberts said on Monday. “That happened the 23rd of March, the results came through and it demonstrated the chromosomes we refer to in competition rules that make both boxers ineligible.”

Mr. Roberts said Lin had failed the chromosome test, but was able to appeal her case up to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Lin declined to pursue this appeal notwithstanding an offer by the IBA to indemnify most of those costs.

Umar Kremlev, the President of the IBA, slammed the IOC for allowing Lin and another boxer Imane Khelif to compete with women even after positive results were returned by their tests.

The IOC has stood by its decision, deriding the IBA as “not credible” while broadly sending a warning not to question gender fairness and safety.

IOC President Thomas Bach said in a press conference last weekend: “We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war. What is going on in this context in the social media with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable.”