Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has admitted to being a man. Every legacy media outlet that “fact checked” to his defense got it wrong in service of the transgender movement.
Khelif, who won a gold medal in women’s boxing at the 2024 Olympics, admitted in an interview that he has the SRY gene found in men. The most obvious explanation for Khelif failing genetic tests without being obviously transgender was that he had a Disorder of Sexual Development, which is what Khelif confirmed in the interview. He was raised as a girl because the circumstances of his birth were not entirely clear, just as they were with former Olympic runner Caster Semenya.
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That’s a sad set of circumstances, sure, but it does not change reality. Khelif was raised as a girl, but he is a man, meaning that he should not be punching women in the face in the boxing ring. He has an unfair biological advantage from male genetics, including the effects of testosterone (and yes, Khelif also admitted to trying to lower his testosterone before fights, meaning he knew that fact as well). That is why Khelif couldn’t pass a genetic test and was suing to have those tests banned. He is a man.
1 August 2024; 1 year ago today.
The world watched as a man viciously beat a woman under the guise of “sport”.
The Angela Carini vs Imane Khelif fight lasted only 46 seconds, but it tarnished the Olympics forever.
— Brandubh (@brandubh4) August 1, 2025
That means that every outlet that rushed to his defense to disprove those of us who raised objections was wrong. That includes the “fact-checking” operations at the Washington Post and CNN, which called the claim that Khelif was a man “debunked” and a “lie,” respectively. The Associated Press claimed that correctly noting that Khelif was a man was racist sexism, “reflective of historical mistreatment of female athletes of color.” Other outlets repeatedly shoved the controversy under the rug by claiming that Khelif had competed as a woman for years with no problems, as if that were proof enough that he was a woman.
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Those outlets shunned the most obvious answer, which is that there was a reason that the athlete who previously failed a genetic test continued to desperately fight against ever taking another one. They tried to weasel their way out of the argument, putting emphasis on Khelif not being “transgender,” a distinction without a difference when Khelif was, in reality, a man living and competing as a woman.
Khelif is free to continue to live as a woman, but he should not be permitted to box as one. And the liberal media outlets that shunned any journalistic standards and tried to justify Khelif’s women’s boxing career should be made to answer for why they were willing to lie, or lie by omission, about this story.