Reasons The IOC Denies The Basic And Truth Of The Gender Tests Of Imane Khelif And Lin Yu Ting

Imane Khelif stumbled upon a transgender issue at the 2024 Paris Olympics (Instagram/@imane_khelif_10).

JAKARTA - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was finally hot after being flooded with satire from the International Boxing Association (IBA) about not understanding the balance between justice and safety, especially in women's sports.

This cannot be separated from the polemic of the allowing of Imane Khelive (Aljazair) and Lin Yu Ting (China Taipei) to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Khelif and Lin were disqualified from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championships for not meeting the requirements in the gender test conducted by IBA.

"The results of the chromodynamic tests show the two boxers are not eligible," said Chris Roberts, BBC's IBA Chief Executive.

However, the IOC did not heed the test results. In the aftermath, the transgender issue of the two boxers emerged.

The IOC has reason to refute the basis and correctness of the IBA test results. They said the two boxers met all the feasibility rules for appearing at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In fact, the IOC issued a statement that most reportings around Khelif and Lin were misleading information.

"We don't know what the protocol is. We don't know if the test is accurate. We don't know if we should trust the test," said IOC spokesman Mark Adams.

"There is a difference between the ongoing test and the accuracy or even the test protocol," Adams said again.

In other words, the IOC stated that the IBA test results could not be independently verified.

Mark Adams further revealed that the two boxers deserved to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics because they met the requirements.

Apart from administratively, for example passports, Khelif and Lin are indeed declared women, Mark Adams has argued that both of them had no problems during their six years of appearing in the women's boxing division.

"These athletes have competed in senior competitions for six years without a problem," Adams said.

"These women are eligible to take part in this contest, remain eligible, and compete in this contest (Paris 2024 Olympics)," he said.

Meanwhile, the President of the IOC, Thomas Bach, saw this chaos from different perspectives. He assessed that Umar Kremlev, President of IBA, had bad intentions, namely the defamation campaign for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Kremlin, according to Bach, is accused of disrupting the 2024 Paris Olympics because the IOC has crossed out IBA as the organizer of amateur boxing matches since 2019.

The deletion was based on the reason that the IOC considered IBA to have failed in governance and finance.

Apart from that, many other sports, such as athletics, cycling, and swimming, have banned transgender women from competing in women's sports.

The branches even have stricter criteria for athletes with different sex developments.

However, in the boxing branch, the IOC said athletes were eligible to join the women's division if their passports stated that they were women.