The Olympic boxer, who won women’s boxing gold in Paris this month after failing the IBA’s gender test, posted a video on Instagram showing off her dramatic feminization.
Algerian boxer Imane Kherif appears in an ad for Algerian cosmetics company Beauty Code. The ad starts with Kherif wearing boxing gloves and with her hair pulled back, but the video cuts to Kherif dressed as a woman with subtle makeup, dangling petal earrings, and a floral dress, and an Olympic gold medal.
The advert does not feature Kherif wearing the Islamic hijab that most women are required to wear in public in strict Islamic Algeria.
The ad features the Algerian Olympic star paired with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling accused Kheriff of harassment after questioning his gender identity in a social media post.
Lawyers representing the boxer filed the complaint in France last Friday with a special unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office responsible for combating online hate speech.
The complaint alleges “malicious cyber harassment” and calls on the French government to prosecute those who attack boxers online.
Both Kheriff and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting failed the International Boxing Association’s gender eligibility test and missed out on medals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, but this year they have dominated female opponents.
According to Russia’s TASS news agency, International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlyov explained the organisation’s decision to strip Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Kherif of eligibility to compete in the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in 2023. “Based on DNA tests, it became clear that several athletes had tried to deceive their colleagues by posing as women. The tests proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes have been excluded from competition,” Kremlyov said. said.
But Olympic officials ignored the IBA’s disqualification of the boxers and partially justified their decision by arguing that if a boxer’s passport listed “female,” he could compete in the women’s division.In a separate interview, Olympic president Thomas Bach said the IOC currently does not have a reliable scientific test to distinguish between men and women.
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