This year’s Olympic Games saw no greater tragedy than Imane Khelif’s. The Algerian boxer should have been globally feted for her gold medal win, one of just three medals her country took home from Paris. Instead, she became the target of a right-wing smear campaign that falsely claimed she was a man or transgender.
Khelif was assigned female at birth, was raised as a girl, and has competed as a woman, against other women, for the entirety of her athletic career. But anti-trans opportunists seized on a statement from a discredited, corrupt sports organization that accused Khelif of having abnormal biological markers for her gender. The bullying went on for weeks, driven by social media posts from Donald Trump, Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, right-wing leaders from across Europe, and dozens of conservative commentators.
Källa: The Olympic Boxer Who Became the Face of Awful Transphobia Reclaims Her Image
