Olympics Spox Backs Boxer with Male Chromosomes: 'They Are Eligible... to Compete as Women, Which Is What They Are'

International Olympics Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams declared that the Commission “fully supports” two fighters with male chromosomes who are set to compete this week against females.

Adams sought to clarify why Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Algeria’s Imane Khelif have been allowed to compete as women in this year’s Olympics boxing contests.

He said that as long as the boxers have “female” marked on their passports, then as far as the IOC is concerned, they are women, the Associated Press reported.

He also noted that the rules now state that the federations and governing bodies that govern any particular sports are the ones that set the final eligibility rules for boxers with male chromosomes.

“Everyone competing in the women’s category is complying with the competition eligibility rules,” Adams said, according to the AP.

He added, “They are women in their passports, and it’s stated that this is the case, that they are female.”

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“They are eligible by the rules of the federation which was set in 2016, and which worked for Tokyo too,” Adams explained. “To compete as women, which is what they are. And we fully support that.”

Despite this point, other governing bodies, such as the International Boxing Association (IBA) has enacted much stricter restrictions that ban athletes with male chromosomes from competing in women’s boxing.

As Breitbart Sports reported on Monday, the two Olympic boxers in question were disqualified by the IBA from competing in the World Boxing Championships in 2023 in New Delhi.

At the time, IBA President Umar Kremlev explained the IBA’s decision to disqualify Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from competing in the 2023 championship games, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.

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