At the Paris Olympic Games, an Algerian boxer made headlines after violently beating one competitor, Italian Angela Carini, and going on to win the women’s welterweight gold medal, amid strong suspicions about ‘her’ real sex. Evidence now released from a medical file proves us, and others right: Imane Khelif is indeed a biological male.
The investigation was conducted by journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia for Le Correspondant. It indicates that Khelif was allowed to compete for ideological reasons, despite medical evidence and notions of sporting fairness.
The investigative journalist was able to obtain a copy of Imane Khelif’s medical records from two hospitals: the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers, where the athlete is monitored by renowned endocrinology specialists.
Doctors at these two hospitals drew up a report in 2023 in which they highlighted Imane Khelif’s pathology, an enzyme anomaly affecting only boys and preventing the normal development of the sexual organs. At birth, the clear indeterminacy of the external sexual organs means that babies suffering from this condition are often identified as female, which was probably the case for Imane Khelif as a child. Masculinisation occurs in adolescence at the time of puberty.
According to the in-depth analyses carried out by Professor Young, Imane Khelif lacks a uterus but has testicles in the abdomen and a micropenis. Hormone tests revealed a testosterone level of 14.7, whereas the female gender does not exceed the maximum level of 3. Finally, Khelif’s karyotype was male, type XY—in short, a biological male, who therefore unfairly competed at the Paris Olympic Games in the female category.
The scandal is not so much that of the true identity of Imane Khelif, who clearly suffers from a disabling pathology, as that of the lie surrounding this person and the responsibility of the Olympic Committee for having accepted the athlete as eligible for the women’s category. According to Le Correspondant‘s investigation, Imane Khelif sent the required medical file in person to the Olympic Committee, which was therefore able to examine it in detail—except that it has been proven that the Olympic Committee does not base its decisions on medical data.
Khelif’s selection, which was made in record time, was the result of a game of relationships and influences between the Algerian Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee. One IOC member, a certain Mustapha Berraf, openly supported Khelif’s candidacy “out of patriotism”—regardless of the athlete’s true sex.
And that’s not all. Medical records reveal Imane Khelif’s profoundly unstable and potentially dangerous condition. The athlete is subjected to hormone treatments which result in a state of chronic depression and latent violence. One of his opponents in the ring, Italian Angela Carini, paid the price during the Olympic Games.
Algerian media outlet The Algerian Post was quick to retaliate, describing the author of the investigation as a “pseudo-journalist” and accusing him of being relayed “by pro-Trump and far-right French accounts.” The outlet accused Djaffer Ait Aoudia of calling Imane Khelif “a transgender,” which would be impossible since Algeria prohibits gender transition, twisting the facts since the journalist only highlighted Khelif’s pathology without considering him to be a transgender person—which he is not.
The mainstream press has looked down its nose at writers raising the alarm about the Khelif scandal. These latest revelations prove that the whistleblowers were right.
