The recently recognized new International Boxing Federation has introduced mandatory one -off genetic tests to determine gender in both male and female categories. The new requirement will be implemented for the first time at the World Cup in Liverpool (September 4-14).
“The new rule aims to ensure the safety of boxers and the fairplay of tournaments,” the World Boxing said in a statement. It became the second International Sports Federation introduced a similar requirement after the athletics – World Athletics.
As a result, all the boxers who want to participate in the world in Liverpool must have a one -time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) before the start of the tournament to determine whether they are transgenders. If women are found in the nourishment of the SRY gene, which is part of the Y chromosome and causes the development of male characteristics in women, they will not be allowed to the world.
The discussions about sex identity in women’s sport grew during the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, where Algerian Imine Helif and Taiwan Lin Ju-Tit won the titles. They were admitted to the IOC, although they were not allowed to box the World Cup a year earlier.
Then the admin of the World Championships was still removed from the IBA Olympic Movement (led by President Umar Kremlyov). The IOC removed the IBA a few years earlier and organized boxing tournaments itself in Tokyo 2020 and in Paris 2024. During the Paris games, however, the IOC’s motive to allow the looking boxers was that Helif and Lyn were born as women and identified as women. However, their appearance and the intense strokes they have affected have caused major scandals and controversy.
The world in Liverpool will be the first organized by World Boxing. It will also feature 7 Bulgarian boxers.
Again a scandal around Imine Helif
Just a day after the new requirement to participate in the World Cup, it became clear that Imine Helif had ended her sports career. This is clear from an interview with the former Algerian manager, Nasser Jessfah, in front of Nice -Matin.
🔴 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 | Imane Khelif stops her Algerian boxing career until further notice. 🥊🇩🇿
She had not been able to box in competition since the Olympic Games following the many controversies about her chromosomal reality. ♂️ pic.twitter.com/JvCDrHxqoJ
— SIRENESS (@MermsFR) 20 August 2025 y.
“She has left the box of boxing, now she has abandoned everything. After what happened at the Olympics, she didn’t even start training again and no longer boxed. If she becomes a professional, she will have to go through the same ordeal,” the manager said.
A little later, however, Helif denied this claim.
“These are statements made by a person who no longer represents me in any way and whom I think has conveyed confidence and my country with his unfaithful and malicious claims,” she wrote in Facebook. “I have never announced my withdrawal. It has the sole purpose of disturbing and harming my sports and professional career. “
For the other scandalous Olympic champion from Paris 2024 – Lynn Yu -Ten, there is no information at the moment. After winning the gold medal in the French capital, she tried to disappear from media attention and did not appear at any other competitions.
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