Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Tting, Olympic champion in Paris-2024, will undergo mandatory gender tests before the Liverpool World Cup, said his coach to AFP on Thursday (21).
Lin, along with Algerian Imane Khelif, was in the middle of a controversy about his genre during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in which they won the gold.
World Boxing said on Wednesday (20) that women wishing to participate in the World Championship in England, between September 4 and 14, will have to undergo “mandatory gender tests,” according to their new policy, which came into force on the same day.
“They announced that everyone should go through them, so we’ll pass,” said Lin coach Tseng Tzu-Chiang.
“If you want to compete, you need to follow the rules of the competition. As we will participate, we will have to follow their rules,” he added.
The new policy forces sportsmen over the age of 18 who wish to participate in a World Boxing organized competition have to undergo a PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) test to determine their birth sex.
Lin and Khelif participated in the 2021 Olympic Games, controversial, and at that time no medal won.
Both were excluded by the 2023 World Cup International Boxing Association, after the organization said they had failed gender eligibility tests.
But the COI (International Olympic Committee) allowed them to compete in Paris, saying they had been victims of “a sudden and arbitrary decision of the IBA”. Both won the Olympic gold in France.
Neither Khelif nor Lin are transgender women. Both were born and grew up as women and thus reflected in their passports.
World Boxing will organize the boxing competitions of the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028 after receiving provisional recognition from the IOC.
