Two days ago, boxing’s new governing body – World Boxing – informed Imane Khelif that she won’t be eligible to compete as a female fighter at an event in the Netherlands this week, due to questions that still remain over the boxer’s biological sex.

Now, results from Khelif’s sex test at the 2023 World Championships have reportedly emerged, with the report allegedly suggesting the women’s Olympic champion is a biological male.

Khelif won a women’s boxing gold medal representing Algeria boxing at the Paris Games, after completely steamrolling her opponents. You may remember one incident where Khelif’s opponent, Italy’s Angela Carini, abandoned the fight in under 60 seconds because she couldn’t handle Khelif’s punching power.

Khelif was deemed eligible to compete in France despite having more than a year’s previous knowledge about the dodgy test, with IOC president Thomas Bach previously questioning the test’s legitimacy.

The leaked document, seen by 3 Wire Sports via Telegraph Sport, states: ‘Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.’

The document is marked with the letterhead of Dr Lal PathLabs in New Delhi, a laboratory which is accredited by the American College of Pathologists and certified by the International Organisation for Standardisation.

The results seem to have been collected on March 17, 2023 – the same year that Khelif was disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA), the former governing body for the sport for failing gender eligibility tests.

Now I’m not an expert so I don’t know whether we can categorically say that Imane Khelif is a biological man off the back of this test, or whether maybe she was born a biological woman, but somehow happens to have ridiculous testosterone levels and/or male chromosome composition. It’s rare, but it does happen.

Khelif has never publicly identified as transgender, and being transgender is illegal in her home country of Algeria. There’s also this pic of Imane Khelif as a child, which suggests she was at least raised as a girl, if that matters:

Khelif has previously stated that she plans on defending her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in three years time, but this latest revelation may throw a spanner in the works. After all, World Boxing will provisionally run testing for the Los Angeles games, with any person over 18 required to undergo PCR testing to determine their sex.

In any case, seems like this saga is far from over.

For the anti-trans MMA star who offered to fight 10 trans men in a row, click HERE. Is that happening or what?