Imane Khelif is A Woman

I am still very concerned with issues relating to gender and transsexuality, of course, so I have to say that the controversy currently unfolding around the Olympic boxer Imane Khelif strikes me as quite sickening. She is female, was born female and has lived her life as a woman, yet somehow every transphobe out there is accusing her of being trans, and of cheating for having unusually high testosterone levels. I’ll admit that I don’t know much about the issues at stake here, but this seems to have allowed every transphobic bigot to suddenly creep out of the woodwork and demand Khelif be disqualified, just for being who she is. Surely we are better than this.

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