Imane Khelif is a cis (non-transgender) woman who is very good at boxing . In spite of all this she has become the target of a viscous transphopic attacks where people like JK Rowling tells the world she is a man beating up cis women under the Paris Olympics .

We have gathered a collection of articles and opinion pieces for you that throws light upon what is really going in here.

The takeaway is:

  • Imane Khelif is a cis woman, not a man.
  • The attacks against her reflects toxic transphobic attitudes.
  • The implicit goal of these attacks is to force all women to follow narrowly defined sexist ideas about what a proper woman should be and to uphold a clear divide between the two traditional genders.
  • This transphobia is mixed up with a racism that implies that strong Black women are a threat to white women and that they must therefore be classified as men.

“Over time, people have looked at genitalia, they’ve looked at chromosomes, they look for a specific gene, they’ve looked at testosterone. And what we end up with is the understanding that there’s really no clear cut definition of sex, because each of these iterations of testing has kind of collapsed under its own weight,” says Jaime Schultz, a professor with Penn State University’s department of kinesiology.

That is the problem, isn’t it? In order to police the gendered behavior, presentation and self understanding of men and women, the fundamentalists cannot live with a world where gender and gender presentation are ambiguous.

The Imane Khelif Story, Selected Articles and Videos

Olympic boxer Hergie Bacyadan has explained why his trans identity is valid despite his decision not to take hormones.

Imane Khelif Isn’t Trans—But So What If She Was?

Imane Khelif is just the latest case of female athletes being questioned over their sex

Imane Khelif defeated Olympic opponent who spread hateful posts about her.

For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend

Imane Khelif wins fight and declares, ‘I want to tell the entire world that I am a female’

No, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is not a man. She’s not a trans woman either

Fact-checking misinformation around Olympic boxing and gender

Olympic boxer Imane Khelif calls for end to bullying after backlash over gender misconceptions

Imane Khelif, Algerian boxer at center of Olympic dispute, wins again

Boston Globe Falsely Prints Headline Calling Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Transgender

IOC: “Every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination.” Joint Paris 2024 Boxing Unit/IOC Statement

There are no trans women athletes at the Paris Olympics. So bigots manufactured them.

Khelif, whose Olympic win has been grotesquely overshadowed by TERF comments by Rowling and Riley Gaines about her gender, would be well within her rights to sue for slander or defamation.

NZ Herald: Olympics 2024: Debate over trans inclusion hits female boxers hard – Editorial

Angela Carini isn’t happy about the way she reacted after her match with Imane Khelif and admits her opponent deserves an apology.

The transphobia Imane Khelif is experiencing isn’t new—it’s part of a disturbing, hateful pattern

Track, Trans Rights and Her Olympic Fight: A Conversation with Runner CeCé Telfer

The “average woman”, gender testing and the white gaze: racialized notions of gender in elite sport.

It has to be said: “Cis women are women.” (Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Falsely Accused in Gender Controversy)

“Gymnastics, swimming, cycling, and field hockey have all come under pressure because coaches force women and girls to conform to certain aesthetics for the sake of performance.”

Irish boxer Amy Broadhurst has spoken about beating Imane Khelif in a bout in 2022, as the furore surrounding the Algerian Olympian continues.

Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer targeted with rampant transphobia during the Paris Olympics, has been the victim of “a serious violation” according to a statement issued by her national Olympic Committee.

Imane Khelif’s Olympics participation ‘not a trans issue’, says IOC. Khelif has always competed as a woman, including in the Tokyo Olympics, and there is no indication that she identifies as transgender.

But J.K. Rowling argues Imane Khelif, a cis woman, is a man.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is facing the wrath of netizens in Taiwan after she challenged female Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting’s eligibility to compete in the Paris Olympics.

https://www.scmp.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/buzz/article/3272917/taiwan-cancels-harry-potter-jk-rowlings-bears-netizens-wrath-trans-criticism

J.K. Rowling Misgenders Female Olympian as Boxing Controversy Unfolds in Paris

Flailing GOP Finds a Hero in Italian Boxer… and Whiffs

Imane Khelif: Is it accurate to label this female-born boxer as ‘biological male’ or ‘transgender’?

Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany

Conservative anti-transgender activists in Colorado are using recent Olympic controversies to promote their political agenda and ballot initiatives.

Sex tests originated in the 1936 Olympics to stop a trans man from competing, the National Socialists bringing their desire to control all women’s bodies into international sport.

https://rejserin.medium.com/unrepentant-fear-of-trans-bodies-7da75ef9eb66

Boston Globe Retracts Headline on Olympic Boxer at Center of Gender Controversy

What Isn’t a Woman? (Sports & Sex). Video by Caelan Conrad.

For transgender and nonbinary runner in Paris, Nikki Hiltz , ‘this is bigger than just me’

Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif debate to undermine the Olympics

“Having just won a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, boxer Imane Khelif has decided to lead a new fight: that of justice, dignity and honor. Ms. Khelif contacted the firm, which filed a complaint yesterday for acts of aggravated cyber harassment with the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office.”

Imane Khelif calls out Elon Musk for all the transphobic hate he sent her way